Urquhart. — On New Species 0/ Araneidea. 97 



Legs slender, 1-4 nearly equal in length ; pale stone-colour, 

 dark olivaceous anuuli at articulations ; metatarsal joint exceeds 

 tibial in length, tarsal joint very short ; armature few black 

 hairs, long slender bristles ; superior tarsal claws — 1st pair 

 slender, outer claw 1 tooth, inner (?) ; inferior claw sharply 

 bent. 



Palpi rather short, resemble legs in colour and armature, 

 palpal claw about four teeth. 



Falces conical, project slightly forwards, yellowish. 



MaxillcB greenish-yellow, somewhat spathulate, moderately 

 inclined towards labium, which is dark, pointed, about as 

 long as broad. 



Sternum oval, slightly angular at coxae of second pair, rugu- 

 lose, centre greenish-yellow, margins dark. 



Abdomen oblong-oval, base cleft in centre, forming short 

 obtuse tubercles, apices directed forwards, posterior quarter 

 compressed into a stout tail-like projection ; at base of compres- 

 sion dorsal surface is produced into a conical nearly upright 

 tubercle, about equal in length but slighter than posterior end 

 of abdomen ; very sparsely furnished with light hairs ; dorsal 

 surface mottled with stone-coloured brown, dark median band 

 extends to apex of cone. Ventral surface darkest, spinners at 

 apex. Epicji/ne simple, red-brown, circular orifice, labia black- 

 brown, moderately prominent. 



Ghie&y heqiients Leptospermiim. Waiwera, TeKaraka, A.T.U. 



Ariamnes triangulatus, sp. no v. Plate VIII., fig. 6. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 0-8. Abd., long, 1*7 ; deep, 1- 

 Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3, = 6-2, 6, 3-7, 2-2, mm. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, suffused about thorax with 

 brown, rugulose, almost glabrous ; oval, about twice as long 

 as broad, slightly compressed forwards, transverse indentation 

 on thorax deep ; fovea oval, striae fairly marked ; contour of 

 profile rises from thoracic junction with a moderate curve, forms 

 nearly even line across caput, slopes forwards at ocular area, 

 which projects a little in front. Clypeus projects forwards, 

 length about equals depth of facial space. 



Posterior row of eyes moderately procurved, median pair on 

 lake-coloured rings, have with side eyes a pearly lustre, sepa- 

 rated by an interval equal to more than twice their diameter, less 

 than their breadth from hind-laterals, they form with anterior- 

 centrals a nearly quadrilateral figure, broader than long ; 

 anterior row recurved, centrals dark, seated on black eminences, 

 rather closer to each other than are posterior pair, close to fore- 

 laterals ; side eyes nearly contiguous, seated obliquely on small 

 lake-coloured tubercles. 



Legs slender, yellowish, clouded with reddish-brown, arma- 

 ture light hairs and bristles ; superior claws — 1st pair slightly 



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