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mineut, superior and inferior pairs not differing greatly in 

 length and strength. 



Legs 1 and 2 almost equal, 4th pair the longest and the 

 3rd the shortest ; no spines on the tarsi ; metatarsi and tibiae 

 spinous above and below ; patella3 and femora spinous above 

 only (patellfe of 1st pair with only 1 spine above, or none). 



Palpi spinous above, but without spines below; near the 

 anterior extremity of the humeral joint 4 spines, and behind 

 these, at considerable intervals, 1, 1 ; humeral joint about equal 

 in length to the radial + the cubital joint, bent, laterally com- 

 pressed, thickest at the anterior extremity; cubital joint slightly 

 longer than the radial, but not quite so strong ; digital jomt 

 much shorter than the radial and cubital together, beak-like in 

 shape ; bulbus genitalis situated at the base of the beak, 

 globular in outline, deeply cleft from the middle to the anterior 

 surface. From the inner lobe of the bulbus springs a curved 

 horny process, the direction of which is outwards and backwards, 

 and the exposed surface of which is almost plain. 



I have but one example of the female of this species. It 

 does not differ much in size from the male, and resembles it in 

 colours and markings as well as in other essential specific 

 characters. The vulva is brown, semicircular in outline, with 

 sharp ends directed backwards, and consists of two roundish 

 apertures separated by a septum, anteriorly very slightly and 

 posteriorly greatly dilated. 



Found under stones in the Valley of the Waitaki. P.G. 



The species of Lycosa described above are easily distin- 

 guished by their colours and markings alone. 



Fam. THERAPHOSOIDiE. 

 Genus Hexathele, Ausserer. 

 Hexathele petreii, n. sp. 



Fern. — Length, 20 mm. 



Cephalothorax brown-yellow, somewhat darker at the pars 

 cephalica than at the pars thoracica ; falces dark-brown ; lip 

 brown, becoming paler towards the anterior extremity ; maxillae 

 yellow-brown ; sternum, legs, and palpi brownish-yellow. The 

 abdomen above of the same hue as the cephalothorax, with a 

 fleck of brown at the base, and a median longitudinal dark 

 knotted band commencing at a small distance behind this basal 

 fleck, and extending towards the spinners to a point beyond 

 the middle, fi-om which point to the spinners tlie abdomen is 

 crossed obliquely by a double row of 2 to 4 bands of the same 

 hue. In some examples there are faint indications that at some 

 stage of the animal's existence a pair of oblique dark bands is 

 thrown off from each knot of the median band. On the ventral 



