518 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEIDiE, 



waved; in addition to this, the patch is bordered in front and 

 laterally with a narrow waved band of yellow, and there are also 

 six faintly discernible yellow spots in the median line seated in 

 pairs, commencing in front and terminating towards the centre, 

 and two minute lateral ones near the spinnerets; of this series the 

 first pair are sensibly the largest. 



Epigyne a dark brown lobe, with a long flagellate pi'ocess com- 

 mencing in front at its base, and directed backwards. 



Hah. — New England and Bungendore. 



Ohs. — This species is widely distributed. Mr. A. M. Lea 

 collected it both in the New England district and at Bungendore. 

 I have also received a number of specimens from Gisborne, Vic- 

 toria, where it was collected by Mr. George Lyall, Junr. Com- 

 paring the sj)ecimens collected by Mr. Lea, and again those 

 collected by Mr. Lyall, the species appears to be exceedingly 

 variable both in intensity of colouration and size. Those from 

 Gisborne are somewhat larger than the New South Wales varieties, 

 and much more brightly coloured. In so far as the specimens 

 obtained in this colony are concerned, there is also considerable 

 variation in colour and size. 



Epeira sylvicola, sp. nov. 



(Plate xvii., figs. 4, 4rt.) 



9. Cephalothorax 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; abdomen 7 mm, 

 long, 5 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax reddish-brown, glossy, convex. Caput high, 

 strongly arched, truncated in front, furnished with a few exceed- 

 ingly short and fine white hairs at the base, sides and ocular area, 

 the summit glabrous. Clypeus broad, convex, lateral indentations 

 somewhat indistinct; a deep indentation seated at the middle; 

 colour reddish-brown, becoming somewhat lighter at posterior 

 extremity. Marginal hand broad, yellowish-brown. 



Eyes glossy black ; the four comprising the central group 

 seated upon a moderately high dark brown tubercular eminence, 

 forming a trapezium; of these the two front eyes are somewhat 

 the largest, and are separated from each other by a space equal 



