110 Transactions. — Zouloi/y. 



Maxillm long, dilated and rounded at extremity, slightly 

 curved round lip, which is conical, large, nearly equal to 

 maxillae in length, chocolate-brown. 



Sternum long-oval, somewhat pointed at both ends, rugulose, 

 chocolate-brown, white hairs. 



Abdomen linear-oval, moderately convex above ; greenish- 

 slate colour, two broad, transverse, pale-yellow stone-col mred 

 bauds, disconnected on median lice, about equidistant from 

 each other and base of abdomen, a trilobate mark of similar 

 hue above spinners, which have the same yellowish tint ; 

 sparsely clothed with short fine hairs ; ventral surface light- 

 brown. 



I am indebted for the first specimen to Mrs. Nathan, who 

 captured it on the walls of the Waiwera Hotel ; the second 

 example was amongst Mr. Joseph Mayo's collection, from 

 Drury. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 5; broad, 3. Abd., long, 7; 

 broad, 4. Legs, 4, 1, 2, 3 = 13, 12, 11, 10 mm. 



CephalotJwrax in colour and form resembles male, median 

 indentation longitudinal, moderately marked. 



Legs moderately stout, yellow-brown, faint annuli. 



Palpi resemble legs in colour, short, dense hairs at apex 

 of digital joint ; palpal claw short, free end projects beyond 

 hairs, teeth (?). 



Abdomen does not differ essentially in form or coloration 

 fi'om males ; epigyne lake-black, large oval, rugose, a some- 

 what hippocrepiform low eminence at anterior end. 



Waiwera, A.T.U. 



Fam. THOMISID^. 



Sub-Fam. PniLODROMiNiE. 



Genus Hemiclaea, Thorell, 



Hemiclcea plautus. Plate VIII., fig. 9. 



Male. — Ceph. th., long, 6 ; broad, 4-2. Abd., loug, 7-5 ; 

 broad, 3. Legs, 2, 4, 1-3. = 24, 22, 17 mm. 



Cephalothurax glossy, rsd-mahogany colour, sparsely clothed 

 with light pubescence, strong black hairs about margins ; oval, 

 much depressed, moderately constricted forwards ; caput 

 squarely truncated, lateral index about equal to space between 

 lateral eyes, two somewhat cuniform indentations on median 

 line; thorax squarely truncated, median indentation longitudinal, 

 caput and radial stride moderately marked ; ch/pcus in height 

 nearly equal to diameter of an anterior central eye. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly recurved, median pair smallest 

 of eight, closer to one another tlian each is to the hind-lateral 

 next to it ; anterior row straight, central eyes largest of eight, 

 separated by nearly their diameter, about same space from hind- 



