Uequhakt. — On New Species of Araneidea. 103 



Cephalothorax glossy light-brown, marginal zone and median 

 band wide, dark olive ; broad oval, compressed forwards, caput 

 roundly truncated ; median indentation deep, transverse oval, 

 caput and radial strife moderately marked ; contour of profile 

 represents a low double arch ; clypeus projects forwards, height 

 equals depth of facial space. 



Anterior row of eyes recurved ; posterior row sensibly 

 recurved, equidistant, interval between them rather more than 

 their diameter ; four centrals form a square, about one eye's 

 breadth apart, anterior pair dark ; latter pair closer to fore- 

 laterals than they are to each other ; side ejes separated 

 by a space nearly equal to their radius, seated slightly 

 obliquely on separate dark tubercles. 



Legs long, slender, dark straw-colour, chocolate-brown 

 annuli at articulation of joints ; fine erect black hairs ; superior 

 tarsal claws — 1st pair curved, 4 strong open teeth, increasing 

 in length and strength, terminal tooth nearly equals free 

 end in strength ; inferior claw long, fine, sharply bent, 1 strong 

 curved tooth, directed forwards. 



Palpi resemble legs in colour, humeral joint long ; ciibital 

 short, cup-shaped ; radial applanate ; digital joint large, some- 

 what cupuliform, convex and hairy externally, convexities 

 directed towards each other, prolonged and tapering beyond 

 bulb, projecting at apex is a greenish, membranous, pointed 

 process; palpal organs complex, bulb large, convoluted, bright 

 reddish-brown, attached to extremity is a remarkable long, 

 broad, ribbed, spiral, tapering, black process, which, after 

 making four revolutions in contact with bulb — truncating 

 apex of article — fine end sometimes springs off laterally into 

 an independent curl. 



Fakes vertical, conical, divergent at apex, glossy, yellow- 

 amber colour. 



MaxiUcB spathulate, inclined towards lahium, which is a 

 broad-oval ; organs yellowish, base chocolate-brown. 



Sternum cordate, rugulose, chocolate-brown, broad light 

 mark in centre. 



Ahdomen ovoid, projects over base of cephalothorax; creamy- 

 white, two brownish bands — in some examples consisting of 

 continuous, rather broad rings, in other series of more or less 

 disconnected spots, of a lighter hue — converge from base to 

 spinners ; similar bands encircle lateral margins. Ventral surface 

 black-brown ; shield-like creamy-coloured mark in centre. 



Female (immature) resembles male in form and coloration. 



Palpi yellowish, few black hairs and fine bristles ; palpal 

 claw short, free end more than half length of claw, 4 strong 

 teeth, resembling free end in form, 2 apical teeth nearly equal 

 in strength. 



Six examples were captured at Waiwera, A.T.U, 



