Uequhart. — On New Species of Araneidea. *tt 



Legs rather slender, femora dark lake-colonr, suffused 

 with brown, convex above, spines ; genua and tibiae grooved, 

 these joints, with metatarsi and tarsi, have a dark lake- 

 brown hue, faintly annulated with chocolate-brown, rings of 

 white and black hairs ; besides irregular spines above, tibiae have 

 a double row of 6, metatarsi two rows of 4 yellowish spines 

 beneath. Superior tarsal claws — 1st pair, 9 comb-teeth, in- 

 creasing in length and strength ; inferior claw, 2 close teeth. 



Palpi slender, dark chocolate-brown, short yellowish bristles, 

 palpal claw moderately curved, 9 teeth, directed forwards. 



Falces conical, vertical, convex, project forwards in front, 

 not equal to femora of first pair in stoutness, bright lake -brown. 



Maxillce nearly as broad as long, obliquely truncated, in- 

 clined towards labium, which is somewhat triangular, more than 

 half length of maxillre ; organs chocolate-brown, light apices. 



Sternum cordate, eminences opposite coxae brown-black, light 

 hairs. 



Fore part oi abdomen somewhat pointed, carinate, moderately 

 convex, projects over base of thorax ; posterior half broad, 

 semi-oval, depressed, transversely corrugated, incurvate ; mar- 

 ginal zone directed inwards, longitudinally corrugated ; anterior 

 tubercles applauate, apex rounded, directed outwards ; posterior 

 tubercles, which project from transverse wrinkles, are broad, 

 rounded, applanate, directed backwards ; in first row are three 

 of about equal size, beneath central tubercle there is another 

 rather larger, beneath latter a small one ; integument black- 

 brown, base and lateral margins more or less spotted with dull 

 creamy-buff coloured flecks ; on dorsal surface is a large, 

 slightly flecked black-brown, acute-crenate, leaf-like mark, the 

 black, buff-margined, carinate eminence forming the petiole ; 

 sparsely clothed with very short, close, and erect hairs. On 

 ventral surface is a large greenish-brown, transversely wrinkled, 

 cordate mark, with two large buff spots beneath branchial oper- 

 cula, and two above spinners. Fore part of epigyne repre- 

 sents a yellowish, transversely-wrinkled, semicircular, cucullate 

 membrane, centrally produced into a large, transversely 

 wrinkled lip with tumid incurved margins, its greatest diameter 

 is across centre, from whence it forms a moderately acute angle, 

 apex produced into a clear yellow vermiform process, equal to 

 three-fourths of hp in length; lateral margins of hood, on pos- 

 terior side, involute within dark spotted concavity. 



Male. — Ceph. th., long, 4 ; broad, 3'5. Abd., long, 4'5 ; 

 broad, 3. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 15, 14, 11, 8 mm. 



Cephalothorax mahogany-colour, hairs sparse, yellowish ; 

 sides prominently rounded, laterally constricted at caput, which 

 is rather depressed, ocular eminence prominent ; median 

 indentation longitudinal, oval, deep ; normal grooves slight. 



