134 Transactions. — Zoology. 



5. Ocyclromns (albino). 



We have in the Museum a beautiful specimen of a iveka, 

 snow-white with the exception of a few feathers on the back 

 and at the base of the tail : these are of the usual colour. 

 The legs were of a light-pink or flesh-colour, and much thinner 

 in proportion than in ordinary. Caught at Mohaka. 



6. Garimpliaga novcB-zealandia (albino). 



A curious variety of the New Zealand Pigeon was sent to 

 me by Mr. Harding from Castle Point. The plumage is of a 

 dirty-white colour, many of the feathers on the neck and 

 shoulders being tipped irregularly with a ferruginous-brown 

 colour. 



Akt. XII. — On neio Species of Araueidea. 



By A. T. UfvQuhaet. 



[Bead before the Auckland Institute, 22nd October, 1888.] 



Fam. THEEIDIID^. 



Genus Linyphia, Latr. 



Linyphia ptirpura-punctata, sp. nov. 



ilfa/c— Ceph. th., long, 1-2; broad,!. Abd., long, 1-8; 

 broad, 1-2. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 =-- 6-8, 5, 4, 2-7 mm. 



Cephalotlwrax yellow - brown, olive -brown dorsal band 

 bifurcates from base of caput, connecting posterior central 

 and lateral eyes ; rugulose ; oval, slightly compressed for- 

 wards ; pars cephalica moderately convex, roundly truncated ; 

 thoracic fovea somewhat oval, caput and radial striae mode- 

 rately defined ; profile-contour rises at an angle of about 35" 

 from thoracic junction, somewhat horizontal across pars 

 cephalica, dips forwards from posterior row of eyes ; clypetts 

 vertical, height nearly equals diameter of a fore-lateral eye. 



Eyes on black spots ; posterior row moderately recurved, 

 central pair separated from each other by a space equal to 

 rather more than their diameter, rather less than that interval 

 from side-eyes next to them, two-thirds their space from 

 anterior-centrals ; fore-row recurved, median pair, smallest of 

 eight, their diameter from each other, less than their radius 

 from side-eyes ; interval between lateral eyes rather exceeds 

 interspace between posterior-centrals ; seated obliquely on 

 low^ eminences. 



Legs yellowish, faint annulations on tibias and metatarsi ; 

 fairly stout ; black hairs, long spines, on femoral, genual, 

 tibial, and metatarsal joints, except metatarsi of 1-2. 



Palpi, humeral, cubital, and radial joints pale straw-colour, 



