Ubquhart. — 0)1 new Species of Araneidea. 145 



pressed spots, is a dash of red. The abdomen in the vicinity 

 of the vulva had shrunk somewhat when the specimen was 

 described. Brancliial opercula long, linear ; pale-lemon 

 colour. Corpus vulvcs moderately prominent ; above the . 

 rima genitalis is a large circular orifice. 



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



Theridium graciUpes, sp. nov. 



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

 broad, 1-6. Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 11-5, 7-5, 7-3, 6 mm. 



Ccphalotlwrax light-brown clouded with olive-brown, 

 except fore-part of pars cephalica and lanceolate median 

 streak ; areolate ; ovate, base broad ; caput moderately con- 

 vex, roundly truncated ; eminence of fore-central eyes projects 

 a little forwards ; thoracic indentation somewhat triangular, 

 normal grooves fairly defined ; contour of profile represents a 

 low arch ; clypeus directed forwards, height nearly equals 

 depth of ocular area. 



Fore and hind row of eyes recurved, curvature of posterior 

 row nearly equals that of anterior ; eyes of hind row of equal 

 size, centrals are separated from one another by an interval 

 €qual to their diameter, and from laterals by about their 

 radius ; anterior-centrals dark, seated on a moderate blackish 

 prominence, less than their diameter apart, about one-third 

 smaller than hind-median pair, with which they form a 

 trapezoid, whose posterior side is widest ; lateral eyes have 

 the pearly lustre of posterior-centrals, placed obliquely on 

 strong, dark-lake rings, nearly contiguous. 



Legs yellow-brown ; short, stiff hairs, apparently no 

 bristles ; long, slender. 



Palpi resemble legs in colour ; dark hairs, fine bristle on 

 cubital and radial joints ; slender. 



Falccs yellowish ; vertical, somewhat conical, fore-third 

 directed outwards. 



MaxillcB yellowish-brown ; spathulate, inclined towards 

 labium, which is semicircular, margins very tumid ; yellowish- 

 brown, base dark. 



Sternum yellows-brown, margins olive-brown ; cordate, 

 numerous small mammiform eminences. 



Abdomen, profile oviform, posterior end obtuse, viewed 

 from above pointed somewhat sharply at either extremity ; 

 integument olive-brown, posterior end dark, on dorsal field 

 and lateral margins are about 15 irregularly-shaped light 

 stone-coloured patches ; ventral surface olive-brown ; hairs 

 short, sparse. Corpus vidvce moderately prominent, dark 

 amber-colour ; within a rather large circular area, defined by 

 a narrow membrane, are three moderately prominent lobes 

 enclosing a cordate space, apex directed towards spinners, 



