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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^ OF NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. No. 8. 



By W. J. Rainbow. 

 (Entomologist to the Australian Museum.) 



(Plates xvii.-xviii.) 



Family EPEIRID^. 



Genus E p e i r a, Walck. 



Epeira pallida, sp.nov. 



(Plate XVII., fig. 1.) 



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

 long, 6 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax j^ellowish-brown, hairy. Caput high, arched, 

 truncated in front, sides and base clothed with long coarse hoary 

 hairs, apex sparingly furnished with short hoary pubescence. 

 Clypeus broad, strongly arched, thickly clothed with long coarse 

 hoary hairs; lateral radial grooves indistinct, median groove or 

 cleft deep, short, strongly curved, the curvature directed back- 

 wards. Marginal hand narrow. 



Eyes glossy black; the four comprising the median group are 

 seated on a tubei'cular eminence, forming a trapezium ; those 

 of the front row separated from each other by about twice 

 their individual diameter, and those of the second row by a space 

 equal to rather more than one diameter; the two rows separated 

 from each other by about two and a half diameters; side eyes 

 minute, seated obliquely on small tubercles, not contiguous. 



Legs yellowish-grey, with somewhat darker annulations, mode- 

 rately long, strong, clothed with short hoaiy hairs, and armed 

 with short, strong, black spines; relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



