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Legs reddish, with dark brown bands embracing the coxal, exin- 

 quinal, the lower and upper parts of the femoral, the whole of the 

 genual, the lower and upper parts of the tibial and of the metatar- 

 sus, and the whole of the tarsus ; the legs are tolerably well fur- 

 nished with hairs and spines throughout. 



Abdomen 5 lines long, 4 broad ; above of a dark reddish brown, 

 with three broad bands of yellowish white ; the first, from the 

 front, leaves a narrow space of dark reddish brown in front; between 

 the three bands are two spaces, each as broad as the light bands, 

 the last band being at the broadest part of the abdomen, and ter- 

 minating between two lateral tubercles of moderate size ; below 

 this band the dark colour is broken by two almost imperceptible 

 bands of a lighter shade of brown, immediately above each of 

 which are five minute equidistant white spots, extending across the 

 abdomen ; immediately below each of the two upper, and iipon the 

 lower bands, are two pits, the centre pair being much largest and 

 deepest ; on the under side are two yellowish white bands, extend- 

 ing from the epigyne beyond the spinnerets ; these are slightly 

 broadest at the upper part, and narrowest about the centre, where 

 they are crossed by a long white spot ; epigyne nearly black, the 

 part above it being yellowish white; below the epigyne, and 

 within the lines, the colour is dark brown, yellowish in the centre, 

 where are six long-shaped transverse white spots, arranged in 

 pairs ; immediately above the spinnerets is a longitudinal strip of 

 yellow. 



Spinnerets yellowish brown ; outside the lines the colour is dark 

 brown, marked with white or yellowish spots. 



This species comes very close to A. regalis, but the lateral tuber- 

 cles, and the markings on the underside of the abdomen, lead me 

 to consider it a separate species, and not a variety. Two speci- 

 mens — from Darnley Island and Sue Island, Torres Straits ; a 

 specimen from Cocoanut Island shows the second transverse 

 band on the upper side of the abdomen broken into four distinct 

 spots ; the third band is darker in parts, seeming at first sight, 

 also, almost like four spots ; the underside is the same, but the 

 longitudinal lines are slightly broader. A specimen from Darnley 



