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This species is common in damp spots beneath open manuka, 

 under long grass, etc ; spins a tine horizontal web across 

 hollows. Pairs in October-November. 



Te Karaka, Auckland, A.T.TJ. 



IAnyphia trisphathulata, sp. n. PL VI., fig. 2. 



Length of an adult female 3 mm., and of an adult male 3 mm. 



(Jephalothorax oval, moderately constricted at caput ; rugulose, 

 glossy, yellowish, or light greenish-brown ; lateral margins and 

 wide median band dark olive-green ; median indentation some- 

 what lozenge-shaped, apex directed posteriorly ; normal grooves 

 rather faint ; clypew slightly concave, projects forwards ; equals 

 half depth of facial space. 



Eyes disposed in two slightly arched transverse rows, forming 

 a narrow oval space ; four centrals form a trapezoid, longer 

 than broad ; anterior pair close, darkest and much the smallest 

 of eight; hind-centrals largest of eight, placed on black oval 

 tubercular eminences, rather more than their diameter from 

 each other, and the hiud-laterals next to them ; lateral eyes 

 seated obliquely on rather strong black tubercles, more than 

 their diameter apart, and less than that space from the fore- 

 centrals. 



Legs slender, long ; relative length 1, 4, 2, 3 ; L, ii., iv. nearly 

 equal ; colour of cephalothorax ; tibiae and metatarsi have oliva- 

 ceous annulations : armature few dark hairs and slender spines ; 

 superior tarsal claws, 1st pair, rather weak, slightly curved, 

 about 10 short, close teeth, increasing in length ; inferior claw 

 smaller than superior, bent, one tooth, point bebind. 



Palpi have tints and armature of legs ; palpal claw weak, 

 straight, apparently no teeth. 



Fakes vertical, slightly divergent ; pale-amber ; three teeth 

 outer row, inner small points. 



Maxilla nearly twice as long as broad, obliquely truncated 

 on outer side, inclined towards lip, which is about as broad as 

 long, everted, dark hue. 



Sternum broad cordate, blackish-brown, pitted. 



Abdomen ovoid, pointed posteriorly, projects forwards ; pe- 

 tiolum rather long : yellowish or brownish mottled with a lighter 

 tint ; two irregular (in some examples partially composed of 

 spots) dark-chocolate bands converge from base towards spin- 

 ners ; at posterior end are a series of dark angular lines whose 

 vertices are directed forwards. Vulva somewhat circular, promi- 

 nent, membranous, rugose, brownish eminence, concave within ; 

 tibia on posterior side produced into clear pale-amber coloured 

 ladle-shaped apophyses with reddish margins, projecting from 

 between the latter is a similar but longer apophysis. 



Male does not differ essentially from female, legs rather 

 longer, and abdomen slimmer ; specific pattern in some examples 



