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with brown ; tibiae and metatarsi have three brownish annu- 

 lations, tarsi two ; legs rather slender ; hairs sparse ; spines 

 yellowish, dark base ; tibial spines of first pair less than 

 breadth of article in length. 



Palpi have the brownish tints of legs, digital joint fairly 

 armed with hairs and spines. 



Falccs red mahogany-colour; conical, vertical, project at 

 base in front, about equal to the pars femoralis of a leg of first 

 pair in stoutness. 



Maxillce dark-brown, yellowish apices ; broad-spathulate, 

 width nearly equals length, moderately inclined towards each 

 other. 



Labium colour of maxilla:' ; large, nearly as long as 

 broad, roundly pointed. 



Sternum glossy, brown-black; few white hairs; cordate, 

 rugulose, eminences opposite coxa). 



Abdomen, somewhat of a broad-ovate, rather depressed 

 above ; humeral and posterior tubercles slightly developed, 

 latter consist of five in normal position ; few white hairs 

 chiefly on base ; folium moderately acute-crenate ; light- 

 brown, dark narrow border, numerous small brown spots, and 

 creamy-coloured flecks with a purple centre ; between the two 

 fore-pairs of impressed spots is a brown broad-lanceolate 

 figure, spotted and bordered with a deeper tint, connected 

 with a similar but smaller and more irregularly-shaped mark 

 above the anterior pair of spots ; this mark is followed by a 

 dark oval spot ; from the latter a rather narrow irregular band 

 curves round base of abdomen ; lateral margins have the 

 normal spots and flecks ; a brown, undulating, horizontal streak 

 somewhat divides the chocolate-brown superior zone from the 

 lower lighter-toned parts ; ventral surface light-brown ; 

 obliquely corrugated, corrugations streaked with black- 

 brown ; shield olive-tinged slate-colour, bordered with flecks 

 of a paler tint, each lateral fleck encloses a small depression ; 

 shield tumid between branchial opercula ; a series of eight 

 pits form a V -shaped figure in centre. Corpus vulva, yellow- 

 ish ; cucullate, transversely wrinkled, fore-margin of cucullus 

 involute, centrally drawn out into a brownish, transversely 

 rugose scapus ; wrinkles extend across margins, which are only 

 moderately tumid ; length- of scapus vulvae equal to the red- 

 dish stilis. 



Single example, Waiorongomai Gorge, A. T. U. 



Epeira albi-scutum, sp. nov. 



Female. — Ceph.-th., long, 4; broad, 4; facial index, 1"8. 

 Abd., long, 6 ; broad, 5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 15-5, 14-5, 13, 

 8 mm. 



Cephalothorax yellowish-brown, tinged with olive-green; 



