Urquhart. — On nciv Sj^ccies of Araneidea. 147 



sparse ; ground-colour creamy-brown ; a moderately angular 

 brown mark intersects anterior pair of impressed spots, which 

 are in line with tubercles at its apex, which is directed for- 

 wards, is an ovcxl yellowish spot, with orange-red margins ; 

 between central pair of impressed spots, which are also well 

 defined, is a brown Y-shaped mark ; few faint angular bars 

 towards spinners. Vulva yellowish; convex, transversely 

 rugulose ; scapus large, somewhat conical, about as broad at 

 base as long, lateral luargins of basal half membranous, red- 

 chestnut colour, prolonged margins curve inwards, forming 

 somewhat triangular concavities beneath scapus vulvae. 



Single example, captured on summit of Te Aroha, A.T. U. 



Epeira muUeoIa, sp. nov. 



Male. — Ceph. th., long, 4-5 ; broad, 3-8. Abd., long, 4-5 ; 

 broad, 3. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 15-5, 13-5, 12-4, 8-5 mm. 



Cephalotliorax, sides olive-brown, graduating to a reddish- 

 brown on median line ; moderately clothed with white hairs ; 

 sides well-rounded, laterally compressed forwards ; pars cepha- 

 lica somewhat depressed, shallow central indentation; lateral 

 index slightly exceeds one-half facial index ; ocular eminence 

 prominent ; pars thoracica moderately convex, indentation 

 large, somewhat circular. 



Posterior-central eyes separated from each other by a space 

 equal to their diameter and a half ; their breadth from fore- 

 centrals ; anterior median eyes perceptibly the largest, in- 

 terval between them equals their diameter and a half; laterals 

 seated on moderately strong, black, tubercular eminences, their 

 radius apart ; fore-pair visibly the largest. 



Legs light-brown, tinted — especially 1-2 — with light olive- 

 green, fore-part of femora clouded with dark olive-brown ; 

 tibial, metatarsal, and tarsal joints annulated with olive- 

 brown, less defined on tibiae of 1-2 ; genual joints rather more 

 than half length of tibial ; latter articles equal metatarsal in 

 length ; tibia of a leg of 1st pair equal to cephalothorax in 

 length; curved process on coxee. of 1 ; hairs yellowish, short, 

 tolerably sparse ; spines yellowish, base dark ; several long 

 spines on femora of 1-2 ; 3-4, superior and inferior row of 

 about 4 or 5 spines, mostly exceeding former in length and 

 strength; spines on genual joints; fairly numerous and strong 

 on tibisB, especially of 1-2 ; 10 to 15 spines on metatarsal 

 joints ; superior tarsal claws — 1st pair, 11 open comb teeth ; 

 inferior claw sharply bent, 2 close teeth. 



Palpi, hairs pale-yellow ; humeral joint yellow - brown ; 

 short, fore-end somewhat dilated, furnished with a long, stout 

 bristle ; cubital joint yellowish ; broad cordate, base con- 

 stricted, more than half length of pars humeralis, projects at 

 apex a long, strong, yellowish-brown bristle ; radial joint 

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