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Art. XVII. — On new Species of Araneidea. 



By A. T. Urquhart. 



[Bead before the Auckland Institute, 31st October, 1887.] 



Plate XI. 



Fam. THERIDIIM. 



Genus Linyphia, Latr. 

 Linyphia rufocephala, sp. nov. Plate XL, fig. 1. 



Female. — Cepli. th., long, 2-5; broad, 2. Abd., long, 4; 

 broad, 2-3. Legs, 4, 1, 2, 3. Length of 1st pair, 8*8 rnm. 



Cepludothorax red-mahogany colour ; oval, clathrate, slightly 

 compressed forwards ; lateral index equals breadth of ocular area ; 

 thoracic indentation longitudinal, deep ; radial and caput strire 

 defined by dark streaks ; profile contour rises with a low curve, 

 at an angle of 30°, pars cephalica moderately arched ; clypeus 

 vertical, convex, height rather exceeds depth of facial space. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly procurved, central pair sepa- 

 rated by about their diameter from hind-laterals, half that inter- 

 val from each other ; anterior row sensibly recurved, median 

 pair much the smallest of eight, their radius apart, rather more 

 than their space from hind-centrals, and fore-laterals ; side eyes 

 slightly exceed posterior median pair in size, have their pearl- 

 grey lustre ; seated obliquely on moderate tubercular eminences ; 

 contiguous. 



Legs yellow-brown : broad, faint annuli ; moderately long 

 hairs ; few spines on tibiae of 1-2, and tibia? and metatarsi of 

 3 (three terminal joints of 4 were missing). Superior tarsal 

 claws — 1st pair, about 16 short, close teeth ; inferior claw, 

 2 teeth. 



Palpi slender, length 3 mm. ; yellow-brown ; rather strong- 

 spines on radial and digital joints ; palpal claw long, slender, 

 rather straight, 7 teeth, 6 small, close. 



Fakes light red- mahogany ; tumid near base in front, 

 directed somewhat forwards and outwards, stouter than femora 

 of 1st pair of legs ; fang strong, double row of teeth, inner 

 short ; outer row, 6 strong teeth, 4 central longest. 



Maxilla; linear, apex pointed, inclined towards labium, which 

 is short, twice as broad as long, apex everted ; organs chocolate- 

 brown, apices brownish-yellow. 



Sternum cordate, brownish-yellow. 



Abdomen oviform, rather sparsely clothed with moderately 

 strong hairs ; pale stone-grey ; two, somewhat faint, blackish 

 bands, with three or four long, tapering, dentate projections on 

 either side, converge from base to spiimers, enclosing a linear- 



