236 Transactions. — Zoologij. 



line; eight clots form a double row in centre. Corpus xulvce 

 reddish-brown, yellow spot at either end ; more than twice as 

 broad as long ; centrally prolonged into a short, obtuse projec- 

 tion ; lateral margins curve inwardh', terminate in somewhat 

 oval shallov^■ concavities ; a' moderately broad septum inter- 

 sects two shallow pyriiorm foveic. 



This handsome species, which is, as far as I am able to 

 ascertain, new to science, was kindly connnunicated to me by 

 P. (ioi/cit, Esq., of Dunedin. 



Art. XXVII. — On Tiuo f-ipccics of Aranea neir to Sciciicr, from 

 the Jenolan Caves, New SoiitJi Wales. 



By A. T. Ukquhakt. 



[Read before t'nc Anclcland Institute, Ilth November, 1689.] 



Plate XYI. 



Fam. THEPJDIID.E. 



Gen. Linyphia, Latr. 



Linijpliia wchnrdi, sp. nov. Plate XVL, tig. 2. 



Female— Ceph.-th., long, 1. Abd., long, 1-2. Legs, 1, 

 4-2, 3. 



Capkalothorax fulvous, radii faint-black ; few black bristle- 

 like hairs ; areolate ; oval, lateral constriction at caput slight ; 

 pars cephalica convex, somewhat squarely truncated ; pars 

 thoracica convex, fovea large, oval ; striae faint ; profile-con- 

 tour slopes backwards, with a slight double arch, at a mode- 

 rate angle, to tlioracic junction; clypciis convex, directed 

 forwards, depth exceeds one-half facial space. 



Eijcs pearl-grey, posited on dark rings ; of tolerable and 

 nearly equal size, except the fore-centrals, which are much 

 the smallest of the eight ; posterior row i)rocurved, median 

 pair perceptibly the largest, separated from each other by an 

 mterval visibly' exceeding an eye"s diameter ; more than that 

 space from laterals of same row ; anterior row slightly re- 

 curved ; centrals placed about their diameter apart ; separated 

 from side-eyes by an interval scarcely equalling their space ; 

 laterals seated obliquely, about their radius from one another, 

 on moderate tubercular eminences. 



Legs yellowish-amber colour ; long, slender, of nearly 

 equal length; first pair, 5mm.; hairs black, fine; bristles 

 sparse ; femoral joints of two first pairs armedwith sphies ; 

 patella have one long spine ; strongisli long spines on tibiie ; 

 single spine on metatarsi. 



