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darker than the hind-laterals, and these again darker than the 

 hind-centrals, which are of a brilliant pearly lustre. 



Falces moderately strong, prominent, knee-shaped, shorter 

 than the patella of a leg of the 1st pair ; groove-toothed, 4 small 

 teeth on the outer and 3 large ones on the inner side ; the basal 

 half glabrous, the fore part sparingly furnished with hairs ; 

 claw moderately long and strong. 



Maxilla; strongly diverging, sides parallel, at the fore end 

 slightly rounded, on the outer end produced to a subconical 

 point on the inner side ; no spines on any part. 



Lip triangular, rather longer than broad at the base, convex, 

 and separated from the sternum by a semicircular groove. 



The sternum ovate in outline, broadest behind, emarginated 

 at_ the anterior and somewhat pointed at the posterior extre- 

 mity ; _ the sides projecting slightly opposite the 1st, 2nd, and 

 3rd pairs of legs. 



Abdomen ovate, longer than the cephalothorax and about as 

 broad. Inferior spinners short and slender, superior more than 

 twice as long as the inferior, and very stout. 



Pal2n considerably longer than the cephalothorax, armed 

 with spines on the superior side of the humeral joint, and on 

 the inferior side of the radial joint, and with two longish slender 

 ones near the fore-extremity of the digital joint ; humeral joint 

 bent, laterally compressed, and nearly as long as the cubital 

 and radial joints together ; radial joint much longer and much 

 stouter than either the cubital or the digital joint ; bulbus 

 genitalis directed backwards, turbinate, and produced into a 

 long, slender, sharp-pointed spine. 



Legs 1, 4, 2, 3, the 1st and 4th not differing much in length; 

 armed with hairs, bristles, and spines, the last most numerous 

 on the femora and stoutest at the sides of tibiae and at the fore- 

 extremity, below, of the patella of the first pair. The other 

 joints have few or no spines. The metatarsi of the first pair are 

 only slightly bent at the basal half, but the tibiae of the same 

 pair are considerably stronger than those of the other pairs. 



The female of this species has been described by Cambridge ; 

 but, as the male differs very considerably from the female, I 

 have given a detailed description of it here. 



Found at Eavensbourue, near Dunedin, by Mr. Petrie and 

 myself. I have traced it from Portobello nearly to Oamaru. It 

 is never found many feet from the sea beach. The male is very 

 sprightly, but the female is very sluggish, and invariably simu- 

 lates death upon being touched. It is able to live a long time 

 without food. I kept a female in a corked tube without food for 

 nearly two months, and at the end of this time it appeared not 

 to have suffered the least fi'om its long fast. 



