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flat, transversely rugose, perceptibly inclined towards maxillae ; 

 stout, length equals metatarsus of first pair. 



MaxilUe light reddish-brown ; long, spathulate, directed 

 slightly outwards. 



Labium yellowish, tinged with olive-green ; oval, one-half 

 length of maxillae. 



Sternnvi yellow-brown, suffused with olive-brown ; ovate, 

 widest at posterior end. 



Abdomen elongate-oviform, base somewhat truncated ; 

 rather thickly clothed with adpressed, bright, light-yellowish 

 hairs, and fine, black, erect hairs ; folium stone-brown, tinged 

 with olive-green ; lanceolate; serrations fine, irregular; basal 

 third displays a few brown spots, and an angular broken bar ; 

 from near latter mark a stone-coloured lanceolate figure, 

 bordered by a disconnected, brown line, extends to spin- 

 ners ; lateral margins brown-black, somewhat longitudinally 

 streaked ; ventral surface stone-brown ; shield margined and 

 centrally intersected by brown lines, former darkest. Corpus 

 vulvcB represents a reddish-brown, moderately prominent, 

 ovate eminence ; foveae intersected by a broad septum, dilated 

 at posterior end ; a short cleft at its base, on either side, 

 forms two angular processes, which give the fovese a comma- 

 shape. 



Two specimens. Te Karaka. A. T. U. 



EXPLANATION OP PLATE XVII. 



Pig. 1. Cijcloctcmis lepidus, sp. nov. Female, three times natural size : 



a, eyes. 

 Fig. 2. Thcridium scricum, sp. nov. Palpus of male. 

 Fig. 3. Epcira cluhitabilis, sp. nov. fi, palpus of male. 

 Fig. 4. E. giittatum, sp. nov. Vulva. 

 Fig. 5. E. ostri-hnmnca, sp. nov. Vulva. 

 Fig. 6. Tetragnatlia typica, sp. nov. Palpus. 

 Fig. 7. „ „ sp. nov. Falees. 



Fig. 8. StcpJianopis angulatus, sp. nov. Palpus. 



