Ukquhart.— On the Spiders of Xew Zealand. 1!)!) 



Male smaller than female, resembles her in form, markings, 

 and colour. Legs, relative length, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 11, 9, 8^, 7 mm. 



Some examples of this species are of a very dark brown- 

 chocolate colour, specific pattern faint. These spiders are not 

 uncommon in buildings, and under bags ; mature examples 

 may be taken throughout the winter months. Their webs are 

 formed of fine lines, with a silky lustre, intersecting one another 

 in various planes and at different angles. Cocoons are fabri- 

 cated from about December to May, resemble loose balls, 

 10 mm. in diameter, of soft white wool ; are suspended by a 

 few short lines, generally close to the walls or roof, visible 

 within are about 88-120 whitish spherical eggs, not agglutinated 

 together. 



Te Karaka, Auckland, A.T.U. 



Fam. THOMISIDjE. 



Sub.-Fam. Philodromin.e. 



Genus Hemiclsea, Thorell. 



Hemiclaa plautus,* sp. n. Plate VIII., fig. 6. 



Length of an adult female, 13-15 mm. 



( 'ephalothorax oval, very depressed, one-fourth longer than 

 broad, moderately constricted forwards; mahogany - colour, 

 glossy, rugose ; sparsely clothed with light-yellowish pubescence, 

 few interspersed fine plumose hairs, and erect black hairs, mostly 

 about lateral margins. Caput relatively wide, squarely trun- 

 cated, three depressions on median line, two anterior foveas 

 circular; basal depression forms with thoracic indentation a 

 fiddle-like mark; caput' and radial striae distinct. Contour of 

 profile level. Clypeus projects sensibly forwards, in height less 

 than diameter of a fore-central eye. 



Eyes small ; posterior row slightly curved, convexity of 

 curve directed forwards ; median eyes smallest of eight, flat, 

 and rather closer to one another than each is to the lateral eye 

 next to it ; anterior row shortest, straight ; intermediate eyes, 

 which are largest of eight, rather more than their radius apart, 

 and about twice that interval from fore-laterals, form with hind- 

 centrals a trapezoid whose anterior side is shortest ; space 

 between fore and hind intermediate eyes more than diameter of 

 a fore-central ; interval between laterals, which are seated on 

 slight eminences, nearly equals space between hind-laterals and 

 hind-centrals. 



Relative length of legs 4-2, 3-1 = 23, 18 mm. ; in some 



* Since this paper was read, through the courtesy of P. Goyen, Esq., of 

 Dunedin, I received a brief description of Koch's H. rogenhaferi, to which 

 H. plant us bears so close resemblance that it may not retain specific rank. 



