78 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Abdomen oviform, depressed above, sides abrupt, convex ; 

 anterior tubercles very small, conical ; posterior rather small, 

 central tubercle of first row shortest of three. Yellow stone- 

 colour, faintly mottled with brown ; specific mark almost 

 obliterated, leaf-like, mottled with creamy-coloured flecks, 

 margins brown, faint, three somewhat angular brown marks 

 on median line, impressed spots, well-defined, form a trapezoid. 

 On ventral surface is a large dark-green shield-like mark, 

 margins buff, double row of four foveola. Epigi/ne represents 

 a cucullate, transversely wrinkled, membranous eminence, 

 depressed above, sides abrupt, centrally produced into a 

 broad, transversely wrinkled, yellowish lip, margins tumid, 

 apex forms an obtuse angle, terminates in a clear yellowish, 

 segmented, vermiform process, as long as lip. 



Whangarei Harbour, T. Broun. 



Epeira tri-tuberculata, sp. nov. Plate VII., fig. 2. Plate 

 VIIL, fig. 1. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 3 ; broad, 2-5 ; facial index, 1. 

 Abd., long, 5-5; broad, 5. Legs, 1, 2-4, 3 = 11, 10, 6-5 mm. 



Cephalothorax reddish-amber colour, few small blackish spots, 

 hairs short, sparse, whitish ; rather depressed, sides rounded, 

 laterally constricted forwards ; caput squarely truncated, lateral 

 index equal to interval between a fore-lateral eye and the hind- 

 central furthest from it ; sides nearly vertical, slight constriction 

 behind posterior row of eyes ; median indentation longitudinal, 

 radial and caput strife moderately marked ; contour of profile 

 rises at an angle of 45°, slightly curved across caput, rising a 

 little at occiput. Clypeus in height equals two-thirds diameter 

 of a fore-central eye. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly recurved, median pair rather 

 more than their breadth apart, their space and an eye's diameter 

 from hind-laterals ; anterior row recurved, centrals rather larger 

 than hind-pair, separated by their diameter and a half, less than 

 that interval from posterior pair ; lateral eyes separated by a 

 space equal to then* radius, placed obliquely on tubercles ; 

 anterior tubercles prominent. 



Legs moderately slender, yellow-amber colour, faint reddish- 

 lake annuli, clouded with similar hue ; sparsely furnished with 

 short light hairs ; femora convex above, numerous short spines ; 

 genual joint of 1st pair more than half length of tibial, two 

 grooves, continued on latter joint; besides upper spines, tibisB 

 has double row of G, metatarsi two rows of 4. Superior tarsal 

 claws — 1st pair long, fi-ee end rather sharply bent, 13 teeth, 

 5 basal, small, terminal strong, somewhat form of fi'ee end ; 

 inferior claw sharply bent, 2 points. 



