136 Transactio7is. — Zoology. 



Palpi pale yellow-brown ; slender, about length of cephalo- 

 thorax ; armature, hairs, and bristles. 



Falces and cephalothorax concolorous ; conical, directed 

 rather forwards, project somewhat in front at base ; fangs 

 small, reddish-brown. 



Maxillce, fore-half broad, convex, rounded, moderately in- 

 clined towards labium, yellow-brown. Lij:) one-third broader 

 than long, recurved ; chocolate-brown, margin pale. 



Sternum yellowish-brown ; cordate. 



Abdomen oviform ; umber-brown, flecked with large and 

 small pinkish, purple-tinted, somewhat metallic spots ; dorsal 

 band brown, sinuate margins, posterior two-thirds narrower 

 and darker ; lateral margins dark-brown, few purple streaks 

 and flecks ; ventral surface displays a brown purple-margined, 

 shield-shaped mark ; abdomen sparsely clothed with short 

 blackish hairs. Corpus vulvce chestnut-brown ; moderately 

 prominent ; represents a transverse area divided by a glossy, 

 brown, rather narrow, x-shaped septum, whose base is pro- 

 longed, horizontally, on the tumid margins of foveas. 



Several specimens, Wairongomai Gorge, A. T. U. 



Linyphia nitidulum, sp. nov. 



Feviale. — Ceph. th., long, 1-6; broad, 1. Abd., long, 2; 

 broad, 1-8. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 5-9, 4-9, 4-2, 2-2 mm. 



Cephalothorax brownish-yellow, median band and mar- 

 ginal zone dark-olive ; former broad, bifurcates forwards 

 from base of caput ; areolate ; oval, moderately compressed 

 forwards, pars cephalica somewhat depressed, roundly trun- 

 cated ; lateral index equal to space from a hind-lateral eye to 

 the hind-central furthest from it ; thoracic indentation not 

 clearly defined, caput and radial striae well marked ; contour 

 of profile rises slightly across pars cephalica to hind row of 

 eyes, dips somewhat abruptly backwards ; depth of clypeus 

 equals diameter of a fore-lateral eye, directed sensibly inwards. 



Eyes on black spots, anterior and posterior row^s recurved, 

 latter moderately ; hind row about equidistant, central pair 

 scarcely their breadth apart, more than twice their diameter 

 from fore-centrals, which are about their breadth from each 

 other and side-eyes next to them ; lateral eyes sensibly larger 

 than posterior-centrals, more than one-thhd larger than fore- 

 median pair ; seated obliquely, their diameter and a half from 

 cue another, on tubercular eminences, fore-pair strong. 



Legs and cephalothorax concolorous, femora faintly 

 clouded, tibite and metatarsi annulated with an olive tint ; 

 slender ; armature, few black hairs and bristle-like spines. 



Palpi colour of legs, moderately strong. 



Falces light amber-colour ; somewhat conical, directed 

 visibly inwards. 



