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what (plane) spiral, rugose ; margin black-brown, bulbus 

 yellowish, circular margins reddish-brown ; near centre of the 

 somewhat depressed lobe are two yellowish, short, tooth-like 

 processes, directed downwards ; beneath them the dark, mem- 

 branous margin is produced into a long, line, black apophysis, 

 curving forwards and upwards, central third ciliate. 



Falces reddish-brown, basal half suffused with olive-brown, 

 somewhat conical, directed visibly forwards, terminal half 

 outwards. 



MaxillcR brownish-yellow, base suffused with olive-brown ; 

 linear-oval curve over lahium ; latter oval, chocolate-brown. 



Sternum dark chocolate-brown ; cordate. 



Abdomen oviform; stone-colour; folium nearly length of 

 dorsal line ; black-brown, coarse, acute - crenate margins 

 enclose a stone-coloured leaf-like space. Ventral surface 

 brownish. 



Three specimens taken on the summit o Te Aroha, 

 A. T. U. 



Genus Theridium, Walck. 



Theridiiim hrunnca- folium, sp. nov. 



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

 broad, 2-5. Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3^= 10-5, 8, 6-5, 5 mm. 



Cephalothorax pale-brown, whitish radial streaks ; caput, 

 broad median band, and lateral margins suffused with brown ; 

 areolate; glabrous; oval, moderately compressed forwards, 

 pars cephalica rather depressed, lateral index about equal to 

 space at hind-central eyes ; fovea large, deep, somewhat cir- 

 cular ; radial striiE and caput-grooves moderately defined ; 

 contour of profile arched, dips slightly at median indentation ; 

 clypeus projects forwards, height visibly exceeds depth of 

 ocular area. 



Posterior row of eyes procurved ; median pair — which are 

 sensibly the largest of eight — separated by rather more than 

 their diameter ; interval between them and laterals exceeds 

 latter space by one-third ; anterior row recurved ; central 

 eyes slightly further from one another than they are from pos- 

 terior median pair, with which they nearly form a square, 

 anterior side widest ; centrals rather less than their breadth 

 from side-eyes ; laterals placed obliquely on dark tubercular 

 eminences, nearly contiguous. 



Legs brownish-yellow, reddish-brown annulations on tibial 

 and metatarsal joints ; armature sparse, dark hairs, slender 

 bristles. 



Palpi yellowish, radial and digital joints reddish ; length of 

 cephalothorax. 



Falces glossy, amber-colour ; somewhat linear, dii'ected 

 slightly forwards, equal to pars digitalis of palpus in length. 



