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claws moderately strong, curved, inner claw has 7 small close 

 teeth, outer none ; hairs of claw-tuft somewhat spathulate. 



Palpi resemble legs in colour, armed with hairs and bristles. 



Vulva convex, orifice transverse oval, margin of hood, or 

 labrum, produced into a short pointed process, directed back- 

 wards ; labium prolonged into a reddish pointed process, directed 

 forwards, longer than upper process. 



Var. hirta., nov. 



This variety is more thickly clothed with hairs, especially 

 in female examples. Oephalothorax brown-biack, covered with 

 yellowish and erect black hairs, white patch usually behhid 

 posterior lateral eyes. Abdomen clothed with similar hairs ; 

 series of white, somewhat angular marks, apices directed for- 

 wards, extend along median line ; white oblique streaks on 

 lateral margins. Dorsal marks on males, which are less hairy, 

 take the form of spots. Legs, more especially in male examples, 

 furnished with numerous long flexible erect hairs. 



Both forms numerous about sunny clay slopes. Te Karaka, 

 Auckland, A.T.U. 



Attus saxatilis, sp. n. PI. VIII. , fig. 10. 



Length of an adult female, 5-6 mm. 



Oephalothorax rather longer than broad, rounded posteriorly, 

 sides abrupt, glossy dark-brown, caput lighter ; coarse black 

 hairs about ocular area ; median fovea large but shallow ; con- 

 tour of profile rises at an angle of 45°, then slopes across caput, 

 which is moderately prominent in front, ulypeus furnished 

 with long white hairs directed centrally, in height less than 

 diameter of a fore-lateral eye. 



Ocular area occupies rather more than one-third of cephalo- 

 thorax, broader than loug ; anterior row of eyes sensibly curved, 

 slightly parted, laterals nearly half their diameter from inter- 

 mediate pair, posterior laterals form a transverse line with 

 fovea, are rather smaller than anterior laterals, interval between 

 them rather less than that between the latter pair ; hides 

 encircling fore-row whitish ; small laterals equidistant between 

 fore and hind-laterals. 



Legs short, slight, relative length 4-3, 1-2 ; yellowish- 

 brown ; armature hairs, spines normal ; tarsal claws, 1st pah, 

 sharply curved, about 13 short, close teeth on inner claw, 

 2 coarse teeth on outer ; claw- tuft strong, hairs linear. 



Paljri yellowish-brown, long light hairs. 



Fakes short, vertical, greenish-brown, fangs short. 



Maxilla, as broad as long, truncated on inner side ; pale 

 straw-colour, slightly suffused with olive-green. 



Labium broad-oval, nearly half length of maxilla?, similar 

 tints. 



Sternum oval, black, light hairs. 



