82 Transactions. — Zoology. 



olive-brown ; moderately clothed with light hairs ; broad-oval, 

 compressed forwards ; median fovea somewhat circular, normal 

 grooves moderately marked; caput convex, projects forwards, 

 lateral index equals space between a fore-lateral eye and the 

 hind-central furthest from it ; contour of profile rises from 

 thoracic junction at an angle of 30°, forms a very low arch across 

 caput. Clypeus in height equals diameter of a fore-central eye. 



Four central eyes large, seated on a prominent eminence, 

 form a trapezoid, w^hose anterior side is widest ; hind-centrals, 

 which are separated by nearly their diameter, and rather more 

 than that space fi-om fore-centrals, exceed latter a little in size ; 

 lateral eyes nearly contiguous, placed obliquely on moderate 

 tubercles, are further from anterior median eyes than those eyes 

 are from each other. 



Legs and cephalothorax concolorous, black-brown, olive- 

 tinged annulations, armature pale hairs, numerous black 

 spines ; 1-2 equal in strength ; superior tarsal claws — 1st 

 pair, strong, slightly sinuated, free end curved, 9 open comb- 

 teeth, increasing in length and strength ; inferior claw long, 

 sharply bent, 2 teeth. 



Paljii long, colour of legs, olive-green annuli ; palpal claw 

 long, 12 open teeth. 



Fakes vertical, somewhat conical, divergent, clear stone- 

 brown, clouded with olive-green. 



Maxilla' quadrate, strong, greenish-stone, dark centre. 

 Labium oval, pointed, rather broader than long, resembles 

 maxillae in colour. 



Sternum cordate, glossy black-brown, yellow median line. 



Abdomen broad-oviform, slightly convex, projects over base 

 of cephalothorax, clothed with light hairs, and bristle-like black 

 hairs ; ground colour brown, mottled with a pale hue ; between 

 the rounded tubercular eminences are two remarkable large 

 creamy-yellow spots ; tapering posteriorly as far as spinners is 

 a wide acute-crenate red-chestnut and brown mark. Ventral 

 surface light dull-yellow, broad T-shaped black-brown mark. 

 Epigyne large, conical, pendulous, segmented, clear dark-green 

 process, apex directed backwards, tinged with yellow, on either 

 side of process are glossy-black planiform spiral lobes. 



TeKaraka, A.T.U. 



Epeira saxitalis, sp. uov. 



Female, immature. — Ceph. th., long, 2-5 ; broad, 2*5 ; facial 

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

 10, 9, 7 mm. 



Cephalothorax yellowish, sparsely clothed with light hau's ; 

 broad oval, laterally constricted forwards ; caput moderately 

 convex, roundly truncated ; median indentation somewhat 



