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a. Annulations on tibiae and metatarsi faint. Superior 

 surface of abdomen creamy-yellow ; specific pattern resembles 

 type form, more defined ; apices of runcinate band black- 

 brown, between teeth are a series of three acute black- 

 brown marks. 



Two specimens, Whangarei Harbour, T. Broun. 



Epeira viriditas, sp. nov. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 4 ; broad, 3-5; facial index, 1-4. 

 Abd., long, 5; broad, 4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 15, 14, 13, 

 8 mm. 



Cephalothorax greenish straw-colour, suffused with bright 

 pea-green ; hairs very sparse and fine ; sides rounded, laterally 

 constricted at caput, which is depressed, lateral index equals 

 space between a fore-lateral eye and the hind-central furthest 

 from it ; ocular eminence moderately prominent ; median in- 

 dentation transverse, radial and caput striae fairly marked ; 

 contour of profile rises at an angle of 30°, slopes, with 

 slight curve, to ocular area. Height of clypeus equals radius 

 of a fore-central eye. 



Eyes on lake-coloured rings ; posterior row straight, interval 

 between median pair slightly exceeds their diameter, nearly 

 twice their space from hind-laterals ; anterior row recurved ; 

 median pair, which are slightly larger than hind pair, about 

 their breadth and a half apart, rather less than interval from 

 posterior centrals, their space from fore-laterals; side eyes 

 placed on low separate tubercles, about their radius from one 

 another. 



Legs concolorous to cephalothorax ; rather stout, armature 

 sparse, short, whitish hairs, lake-tinged spines numerous on 

 tibi^ and metatarsi, 10-12 on inferior surface, latter article 

 and tarsi tinged with lake-colour; superior tarsal claws — Ist 

 pair 9 teeth, 5 basal close, terminal strong ; inferior claw 

 sharply bent, 2 teeth. 



Palj/i resemble legs in colour and armature; palpal claw 

 8 teeth. 



Falces moderately stout, conical, directed somewhat inwards, 

 pea-green ; fangs, dark lake-colour. 



MaxilhB nearly as broad as long, obtusely truncated, inclined 

 towards labiuin, which is rather broader than long, roundly 

 pointed, everted ; organs pea-green, yellowish margins. 



Sternum cordate, eminences opposite coxaB, yellowish, clouded 

 with pea-green. 



Abdomen oviform, base somewhat pointed; very sparsely 

 clothed with short light hairs ; dorsal surface covered by a 

 bright, deep pea-green, yellow margined, oviform mark ; lateral 

 margins greenish-black. On ventral surface is a green, yellow- 



