Urquhakt. — On New Species 0/ Araneidea. Ill 



centrals, with which they form a trapezoid, more than their 

 breadth from fore-laterals, latter eyes equidistant from hind- 

 laterals and hind-centrals. 



Legs moderately strong ; yellow-brown, terminal articles red- 

 mahogany ; armature light pubescence, long, fine, erect black 

 hairs; femora, on superior surface, 2 slender spines ; tibiae, about 

 3 on inferior side ; metatarsi, 2 at base of article ; on 1-2 

 scopula extends nearly entire length of penultimate joints ; 

 tarsal claws — 1st pair, coarse, moderately curved ; inner claw 15 

 teeth, 12 basal somewhat even comb-teeth, 3 terminal, coarse, 

 curved backwards ; outer claw, 4 coarse sparse teeth ; claw- 

 tuft linear, equals claw in length. 



Palpi yellow-brown, long, slender; humeral joint long, group 

 of 3 spines, dark hairs ; cubital and radial comparatively short, 

 latter reddish, produced above into a broad- subulate process ; 

 digital joint oviform, convex and hairy externally ; bulb, red- 

 dish, large, directed backwards; viewed in front, somewhat 

 hippocrepiform, face concave, concavity shallow, margins wide 

 introflexed ; on fore-part of bulb is a short, curved, black 

 apophysis. 



Falces short, somewhat conical, project forwards at base, 

 reddish-black, two rows short teeth. 



MaxiUcB reddish-black, broadest at articulation of palpi, 

 terminal half nearly linear, rounded, divergent ; lip conical, 

 apex rounded, about half length of maxillse, blackish. 



Sternum oval, yellow-brown, light pubescence. 



Abdomen stone-brown, shading off to slate-colour on lateral 

 margins, elliptical, base squarely truncated, much depressed. 



Male bears a marked resemblance to the female,''- differing 

 chiefly in the actual and relative length of the legs, and slen- 

 derness of abdomen. 



Te Karaka, A.T.U. Otago, P. Goyen. 



Genus Philodromus, Walck. 

 Philodromus sphcBVoides, sp. nov. Plate VIII., fig. 10. 



Male.—Ce^h. th., long, 2-6; broad, 2. Abd., long, 3-9; 

 broad, 1-9. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3=10, 9-9, 5-1, 5 mm. 



Cephalothurax deep pea-green, in some examples lake- 

 coloured about frontal region ; broad-oval, slightly compressed 

 forwards, caput index equals space between anterior lateral and 

 posterior median eye furthest from it ; median indentation and 

 strias not well-marked ; contour of profile rises fi-om thoracic 

 junction at an angle of about 45'', slight slope across caput; 

 clypeus nearly vertical, in height equal to three-fourths depth of 

 ocular area. 



'Vide description "Trans. N.Z., Inst.," vol. xiii., p. 199. 



