lis Transactions. — Zoology. 



Falces short, oval, nearly as broad as long, rugose, rich red- 

 chestnut. 



Maxilla; broader than long, inferior angle projects over 

 lahiiini, which is oval, everted; red-orange, pale apices, furnished 

 with coarse black hairs. 



Sternum oval, olive-brown, black and white hairs. 



Abdomen oviform, dark-brown, clothed with fine pale-yellow, 

 orange-tinted hairs, and coarse black hairs ; lateral margins 

 longitudinally wrinkled, hairs chiefly growing in depressed 

 lines ; large conical brown mark, margins pale on ventral 

 surface ; spinners long, orange-red ; epif/yne moderately pro- 

 minent reddish-brown eminence, on the face of which there are 

 two large circular depressions, divided by a keel more than their 

 diameter in breadth. 



Some examples have a broad light-brown lanceolate mark 

 on median line, on fore-part are two angular brown marks, 

 apices directed forwards, above spinners are a series of small 

 oblique angular marks. 



Taken on shrubs, Cordyline ; Waiwera, A.T.U. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



Plate VIL 



Fig. 1. Epeira <orrugahim, sp. nov., male-female, twice natural size ; a 



palpus ; b, epigyne. 

 Fig. 2. Epeira tri-tuberculata, sp. nov., female, t%vice natural size. 

 Fig. 3 Epeira orientalis, sp. nov., male-female, one-third larger than natu- 

 ral size ; a, palpus ; b, epigyne. 

 Fig. 4. Epeira sub-compta, sp. nov., female, twice natural size. 



Plate VIII. 



Fig. 1. Epeira tri-tuberculata, epigyne. 



Fig. 2. Epeira verntian, sp. nov. ; var. hastatum, nov., twice natural size 



a. epigyne. 

 Fig. 3. Nephila argentatum, sp. nov.. female, twice natural size ; a, palpus 



of male. 

 Fig. 4. Thldosoma pemmm, sp. nov., female, three times natural size. 

 Fig. 5. Ariamncs cnnifera, sp. nov., female, eight times natural size. 

 Fig. 6. Ariamnes triangulatus, sp. nov., female, eight times natural size. 

 Fig. 7. lAnyphia blattifrr, sp. nov., palpus of male. 

 Fig. 8. 'J'heridium melanozantha, sp. nov., palpus of male. 

 Fig. 9. ?/f?nic/cra ;)Zawa/s, sp. nov., palpus of male. 

 Fig. 10. Philodromus sphceroides, sp. nov., palpus of male. 

 Fig. 11. Theridium albo-guUatum, sp. nov., palpus of male, viewed from 



beneath. 



Note.— Chief errata, Vol. XVIII., p. 185, lines 15, 16 from the top, /or 

 " tarsi," read " tibiic" ; line 3(5, for " talica." read " labia" ; p. 18G, line 5 

 from below, /or " tibiaj" read " labia" ; p. 187, line IC from below, /or " free, 

 and," read "free end" (throughout paper) ; p. 188, lire 15 from below, /or 

 "pea-shaped," read "pear-shaped"; p. 202, line 13 from below, for 

 " general," read " genual." 



