72 Transactions. — Zoology. 



ground-colour greenish, while the other was brownish. At the 

 same time, and on the same plants, a considerable number of 

 larvfB, resembling the above in shape and size, were collected. 

 Some of these had the ground-colour green, with very faint 

 dorsal and sub-dorsal lines, the dorsal area being green, or only 

 faintly clouded with black. Others had the ground-colour 

 green, while the dorsal and sub-dorsal lines were distinct and 

 black, and the dorsal area between the sub-dorsal lines was 

 filled with alternate light and reddish - brown blotches. The 

 two last forms had their other characters as in the first- 

 described form, and they may be immature stages, or the larva 

 may be a variable one. 



Art. X. — On New Species of Araneidea. 



By A. T. Urquhart. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, VJth November, 1886.] 



Plates VII., VIII. 



Fam. EPEIKID^. 



Genus Epeira, Walck. 

 Epeira cornigatum, sp. nov. Plate VII., fig. 1. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 4 ; broad, 4 ; facial index, 2. 

 Abd., long, 8 ; broad, 7. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 17, 16, 14, 9 mm. 



Cephalothorax chocolate-black ; short, adpressed, yellowish 

 hairs ; in length equal to genua and tibijB of a leg of 4th 

 pair ; depressed, sides rounded, moderately constricted foi*- 

 wards ; ocular eminence not very prominent, mammiform 

 prominences on caput slightly developed, lateral index {i.e., 

 length of caput from strife to fore-angle) nearly equals space 

 between a posterior lateral eye and the hind-central next 

 to it ; median indentation on thorax transverse, radial and 

 caput stria? rather faint ; contour of profile forms an undulating 

 curve, rising at occiput, which slopes abruptly forwards ; 

 height of cli/peus nearly equals facial space. 



Fore and hind rows of eyes moderately recurved ; posterior 

 centrals separated by an interval equal to about twice their 

 diameter, nearly twice their si)ace from hind-laterals ; anterior 

 centrals about one-fourth larger than posterior, placed rather 

 further fiom each other — nearly their diameter and a-half — 

 than each is from the hind-central next to it ; lateral eyes 

 Beated moderately obliquely on low tubercles, nearly their 

 diameter apart. 



