86 Transactioyis. — Zoology. 



margined, shield-shaped mark. Epigyne represents a yellowish, 

 transversely wrinkled, cucullate eminence ; projecting outwards 

 from beneath hood-like membrane, is a broad, long, clear 

 greenish - yellow, hnear process; about 12 well-defined seg- 

 ments, concave above, apex cupuliform ; integument at base of 

 process produced, at right angles to it, into large, somewhat 

 conchiform projections, with brown margins, curving inwards 

 beneath process. 



Frequents Leptospermum ; Te Karaka, A.T.U. 



Epdra discolora, sp. nov. 



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

 Abd., long, 5 ; broad, 4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 12, 11, 9*2, 5 mm, 



Cephalothorax yellow amber-colour, suffused with reddish- 

 amber, hairs sparse, whitish ; oval, rather depressed, moderately 

 constricted forwards ; caput roundly truncated, ocular eminence 

 moderately prominent, lateral index equals space between fore- 

 lateral eyes ; median fovea somewhat circular, deep, radial and 

 caput strife fairly marked ; contour of profile rises from thoracic 

 junction at an angle of 60°, dips slightly across caput. Clypeus 

 vertical, in height equal to diameter of a fore-central eye. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly recurved ; centrals separated 

 by an interval that slightly exceeds their diameter, little more 

 than their space from hind-laterals ; anterior row recurved, 

 median pair rather smaller, and further apart than are posterior 

 pair ; interval between fore and hind-centrals rather exceeds 

 space between latter pair ; lateral eyes seated obliquely on 

 black tubercles, less than their radius from each other. 



Legs rather slender, yellow- amber colour, reddish annuli, 

 femora of first pair clouded with olive-green; sparsely furnished 

 with short hairs, erect black spines ; tibial and metatarsal spines 

 exceed diameter of those articles in length. Superior tarsal 

 claws — 1st pair, 11 comb-teeth, increasing in length and 

 strength ; inferior claw, 2 teeth. 



Palpi moderately slender, about length of cephalothorax, 

 yellowish, spines numerous ; palpal claw like tarsal, 8 teeth. 



Falces strong, conical, vertical, red-amber colour. 



Majillcp, broad, rounded, inclined towards labium, which is 

 nearly twice as broad as long, everted ; organs yellowish, base 

 chocolate-brown . 



Ster7mm cordate, eminences opposite coxte, brown, yellowish 

 streaks in centre. 



Ahduiitcn oviform, convex above, projects over base of 

 cephalothorax ; dorsal surface covered by an oviform pea-green 

 mark, margins brown, sinuated ; on its fore-part there is a 

 creamy-white angular line, vertex directed forward, base ex- 

 tends back to central pair of impressed spots, between latter 



