242 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Epeira giUtatitm, sp. nov. Plate XVII., fig. 4. 



Female. — Ceph.-th., long, 3; broad, 3; facial index, 1-2. 

 Abd., long, 8; broad, 8. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 12, 11, 10-5, 

 7 mm. 



Cephalotliorax light brownish-yellow, cephalic part suffused 

 with lake about the eye-area, clouded and streaked with olive- 

 brown ; thorax lightly suffused with olive-brown ; hairs yel- 

 lowish, short, sparse ; length equals tibia of a leg of 1st pair ; 

 sides well rounded, lateral constriction at caput tolerably 

 strong ; pars cephalica moderately convex, ocular eminence 

 low, lateral index equals facial ; pars thoracica somewhat 

 convex, fovea rather circular, normal grooves moderately de- 

 fined ; profile-line chps from limit of caput to thoracic junction 

 at an angle of 45°, slopes less abruptly forwards ; depth of 

 clypeus equals breadth of a fore-central eye. 



Fore and hind row of eijcs moderately recurved ; curvature 

 of posterior line nearly equals that of the anterior ; eyes on 

 dark rings ; hind-centrals equal fore-centrals in size, divided 

 by an eye's breadth, rather more than their space from laterals 

 of same row ; anterior median pair separated from each other 

 by their diameter and a half, rather less than that interval 

 from posterior centrals ; laterals rather smallest of eight, inter- 

 space perceptibly less than their radius, posited obliquely on 

 moderately strong tubercles. 



Legs brownish-yellow ; femora of first and second pairs 

 lightly suffused wdth lake colour ; tinge more pronounced on 

 femoral joints of third and fourth, which have broken 

 chocolate-brown rings on the fore-end ; tibias, metatarsi, and 

 tarsi have two brown annuli ; annulations on front pairs faint ; 

 hairs sparse ; spines yellowish, dark base, moderately strong, 

 and numerous. 



Palpi brownish-yellow ; light-coloured hairs and spines ; 

 equal in length to metatarsal and tarsal joints of 2nd pair. 



Falccs yellowish, green tinge, clouded with olive-green ; 

 conical, gibbous at base in front, vertical, nearly equal in 

 length to radial and digital joints of palpus. 



Maxillce obtusely pointed, nearly as broad at fore-end as 

 long, inclined towards labium, which is oval, nearly as long as 

 broad ; organs dark chocolate-brown, greenish-yellow apices. 



Sternum dark chocolate-brown, yellow central mark; 

 broad-cordate, eminences opposite coxie. 



Abdomen somewhat oviform, moderately depressed above, 

 projects over base of cephalotliorax ; humeral tubercles mode- 

 rately prominent ; hairs very sparse ; ground-pattern formed 

 by a series of intricate sinuate curved lines, and flecks of a 

 purple-tinted white colour, intersected by purple streaks ; base 

 thickly spotted with large creamy-white lobate flecks, which 

 gradually transform into broken oblique streaks on lateral 



