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Abdomen ovoid, slightly longer than cephalothorax, brown- 

 black, sparingly furnished with short light hairs. Vulva mode- 

 rately prominent, convex ; margin of hood forms a transverse, 

 lightish brown intumescent lip, extending to branchial opercula. 



Shingle slopes, Two-Thumb Range, Lake Tekapo, Canter- 

 bury, A.T.U. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES VI.-VIII. 



Plate VI. 



Fig. 1. Linyphia diloris, sp. n., a, male ; b, female ; three times natural 



size ; c, palpus of male in two positions ; d, vulva ; e, claws of 



fore-leg and maxilla 1 , labium of female. 

 Fig. 2. Linyphia trisplutthulata, sp. n., male and female ; five times 



natural size ; a, palpus of male in two positions ; b, vulva. 

 Fig. 3. Theridium varium, sp. n. ; a, male; b, female; twice natural size ; 



c, palpus of male in two positions ; d, claws of first part of legs ; 



e, vulva. 



Plate VII. 

 Fig. 1. Theridium veruculatum, sp. n., female ; four times natural size ; a, 



vulva. 

 Fig. 2. Theridium blatteus, sp. n., female; seven times natural size; a, 



vulva. 

 Fig. 3. Theridium pumilo, sp. n. ; a, male ; b, female ; eight times natural 



size; c, palpus of male; d, maxillae, labium, and sternum of 



female ; e, vulva ; /, claws of anterior leg. 

 Fig. 4. Theridium calyciferum, sp. n., female ; four times natural size ; 



a, vulva. 

 Fig. 5. Theridium cruciferum, sp. n., female; four times natural size; a, 



vulva. 



Plate VI1T. 



Fig. 1. Theridium triloris, sp. n., vulva; a, palpus of male in two positions. 



Fig. 2. Theridium squalida, sp. n., vulva. 



Fig. 3. Theridium setiger, sp. u., vulva. 



Fig. 4. Theridium zantholabio, sp. n., vulva. 



Fig. 5. Theridium sericum, sp. n., vulva ; a, maxillae, labium, and sternum. 



Fig. G. Hemiclcea plautus, sp. n., cephalothorax of female ; a, profile with 



legs truncated, twice natural size; b, vulva; c, maxillae, labium, 



aud sternum. 

 Fig. 7. Lycosa proximo,, sp. n., profile of cephalothorax with legs and palpi 



truncated ; la, palpus in two positions. 

 Fig. 8. Attus aurieomus, sp. n., palpus of male and vulva. 

 Fig. 9. Attus zantho frontalis, vulva. 

 Fig. 10. Attus saxatilis, sp. n., vulva. 



Art. XXXVIII. — Description of Diadema nerina. 



By R. J. Kingsley. 



[Read before the Nelson Philosophical Society, Y&tli April, 1885.] 



Of the Order Lepidoptera, New Zealand appears to possess but 

 a comparatively few species, especially when we consider how 

 lavish nature has been in this respect in both number and 



