102 transactions. — Zoology. 



Genus Erigone, Sav. 

 Erigone atriventer, sp. bo v. 



Female. — Ceph. tli., long, 0-9. Abd., long, 1-5. Legs, 1-4, 

 2-3 = 4; 3-3 mm. 



Cephalothorax areolate, glossy, yellowish-brown ; three rows 

 of black bristle-like hairs converge from base at caput to ocular 

 area ; oval, compressed forwards, caput convex, lateral margins 

 deep ; median fovea transverse oval, radial and caput striae 

 fairly marked ; contovir of profile rises somewhat abruptly from 

 thoracic junction, represents a double arch ; dijpeus directed 

 moderately forwards, projects laterally, indentation below eyes, 

 in height nearly equal to depth of facial space. 



Posterior row of eyea slightly procurved, about equidistant, 

 median pair separated by rather less than their diameter, rather 

 more than that interval from anterior centrals ; hind-centrals 

 and laterals — which are contiguous, and placed obhquely on 

 strong tubercles — are large, pearl-grey lustre ; anterior row 

 recurved, central pair small, dark, rather Ifss than their breadth 

 from each other, and from fore-laterals. 



Legs long, moderately slender, 1-3, 2-3, about equal in 

 length, bright yellow-brown ; armature stiff black hairs, few 

 long bristle-like spines, none on metatarsi ; superior tarsal 

 claws — 1st pair, long, fine, form an even curve from base, about 

 6 fine teeth, increasing in length; inferior claw long, mode- 

 rately bent. 



Palpi rather long, olivaceous tinge, black liau'S, strong 

 bristles, digital joint terminates with a short point. 



Fakes gibbous at base, taper towards apex, directed inwards, 

 fang and teeth strong ; yellowish, sufi'used with brown. 



Maxilla: strong, dilated towards extremity, pointed, curving 

 towards lahimn, which is somewhat oval ; organs greenish-black, 

 apices pale. 



Sternwn large, cordate, areolate, brown-black. 



Ahdumen oviform, convex, projects moderately over base 

 of cephalothorax, brown-black, sparsely clothed with stifi' black 

 hairs, spinners greenish-yellow. Epiygne represents a tri- 

 angular, transversely wrinkled, membranous eminence, about 

 as broad as long, apex directed forwards, margins curve within 

 the concavity, and are produced into a short, rather thick, 

 apophysis, curved downwards, directed backwards. 



Taken in July, amongst grass. Te Karaka, A.T.U. 



Genus Theridium, Walck. 

 Thcridinm mdanozantha, sp. nov. Plate VIII., fig. 8. 



Male. — Ceph. th., lorg, 1-8; broad, 14. Abd., long, 3; 

 broad, 1-6. Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 10, 9-6, 7, 5 mm. 



