Ubquhart. — On new tfpeci-es of Araneidea. Ill 



brown, broad, membranous process, directed downwards and 

 forwards, concave on outer side ; bulb yellow-brown, less tban 

 half length of lamina ; view from superior side, somewhat cam- 

 panulate, forepart concave, margin at concavity produced on 

 lower side into a short spur, directed downwards ; extending 

 over most of the outer face of bulb is a large, oval, yellowish 

 membrane, with lake-coloured tumid margins ; an olive-green, 

 semi-transparent, involute, pointed membrane projects forwards 

 nearly to apex of the lamina bulbi ; between this membrane and 

 the concave surface of the latter is a long dark membranous 

 apophysis, directed forwards, apex pointed, curved downwards. 



Falces red-mahogany colour; transversely wrinkled; out- 

 wardly armed with a few rows of short, dark papilla 1 ; tumid at 

 base, on outer side, tapering, apices directed outwards, fangs 

 long, double row of teeth, two central long. 



Maxilla strong, apices dilated, rounded, and somewhat 

 obtusely pointed, curve over lip; base dark-brown, graduating 

 to a bright reel-mahogany. Labium rather broader than long, 

 nearly semicircular, about half length of niaxillEe, margin 

 strongly everted; red-mahogany colour, base dark-chocolate 

 colour. 



Sternum ovate, lacunose, chocolate-brown. 



Abdomen oval; stone-grey; curved bands on dorsal field 

 are of a darker hue, and the dentation less defined than those 

 of females ; the genital aperture is covered by a rather prominent, 

 semi-oval, transversely-wrinkled hood. 



This species was contained in a collection kindly sent me 

 by P. doyen, Esq., from Dunedin. 



Linyphia lagenifera, sp. nov. Plate XL, fig. 4. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 3; broad, 2-2. Abd., long, 6; 

 broad, 3-2. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 21, 14, 11, 7 mm. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown; broad median band and mar- 

 ginal zone brown; hairs sparse, light; oval, rugulose; caput 

 roundly truncated, rather depressed; lateral index equal to 

 space from a fore-lateral eye to the hind-central furthest from 

 it; median fovea circular; normal grooves faint, brown; contour 

 of profile rises from thoracic junction at an angle of about 

 45°, slopes moderately forward across pars cephalica; clypeus 

 in height about three-fourths depth of ocular area. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly recurved, nearly straight, 

 equidistant ; median pair separated by a space about equal to 

 their diameter and rather more than that interval from fore- 

 centrals, which are slightly further apart than former pair; 

 anterior row recurved, centrals rather further from each other 

 than they are from fore-laterals; side eyes seated obliquely 

 on strong, cup-shaped tubercles, separated by a space nearly 

 equal to their diameter. 



