108 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Falces pale stone-colour, somewhat linear, project sensibly 

 forwards, strong teeth. 



MaxillcB somewhat linear, rounded on outer side, yellowish ; 

 labium oval, rather broader than long, nearly half length of 

 maxillae, reddish-amber colour. 



Sternum cordate, yellow-amber, glossy. 



Abdomen oviform, projects over base of cephalothorax ; light 

 fine hairs, pale stone-colour, tinged with pink ; median band 

 broad, tapers off at either end, reddish-lake, pale margins. 

 Ventral surface colour of dorsal, spinners small. Ejngyne repre- 

 sents a moderate-sized, slightly concave space, encircled by a 

 very narrow dark-brown membrane, the slightly tumid pale- 

 brown margins curve towards each other on anterior side, but 

 are disconnected by a narrow space. 



Taken on Leptospermum ; Waiwera, A.T.U. 



Theridium albo-gullatimi, sp. nov. Plate VIII., fig 11. 



Male. — Ceph. th., long, 1. Abd., long, 1"1. Legs 1, 2, 4, 3 

 = 6-2, 4, 3-3, 2-3 mm. 



Cephalothorax areolate, glossy, yellowish-brown, small oli- 

 vaceous flecks, chiefly along grooves and about caput, on fore- 

 part of which are few bristle-like hairs ; broad-oval, compressed 

 forwards, caput projects forwards, projection blackish ; median 

 fovea dark, large oval, stris well-defined ; contour of profile 

 rises rather abruptly from thoracic junction, forms a faint curve 

 across caput ; cUjpeus projects forwards, height about equal to 

 depth of ocular area. 



Eyes large, posterior row sensibly recurved, median pair 

 encircled by lake-coloured rings, have pearly lustre of laterals, 

 nearly their diameter aj^art, about that interval from side eyes 

 next to them ; anterior row strongly recurved, centrals dark, 

 largest of eight, three-fourths their diameter from each other, 

 closer to fore-laterals, more than their breadth from posterior 

 centrals ; lateral eyes seated obliquely on somewhat triangular 

 lake-coloured tubercle, nearly contiguous. 



Legs long, moderately stout, yellowish, chocolate-brown 

 annulations ; femora of 1 darkest, 8-4 greenish tinge ; arma- 

 ture long, stifi" black hairs, few long fine spines, none on meta- 

 tarsi ; superior tarsal claws — 1st pair, 7 teeth ; inferior, 2 

 small teeth. 



Palpi rather short, humeral and cubital joints yellowish ; 

 radial somewhat crateriform, about equal to cubital in length ; 

 digital joint oviform, convexities hairy, directed towards each 

 other, project beyond bulb; latter yellowish-brown, viewed from 

 beneath it represents a smooth, convex, oval eminence ; on 

 fore-half is a somewhat circular, narrow, brown membrane 

 termiuating at apex in a short black spiral process. 



Falces vertical, somewhat linear, glossy amber-colour. 



