112 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Legs yellow - brown, broad chestnut - brown annulations ; 

 armature moderately long hairs ; long, slender, black spines on 

 femoral, genual, tibial, and metatarsal joints ; 1-2 pair stoutest, 

 about equal in strength. Superior tarsal claws — 1st pair, 15 

 short, nearly even teeth ; inferior claw, 2 close teeth. 



Palpi resemble legs in colour and armature ; palpal claw 

 moderately curved, slender, 9 teeth. 



Falces strong, tapering, project forwards at base in front, 

 directed moderately outwards ; chocolate-brown. 



MaaeiUm somewhat spathulate, obtusely pointed, inclined 

 towards lip, which is semicircular ; organs dark-brown, apices 

 lighter shade. 



Sternum cordate, brownish, well-developed, somewhat conical, 

 eminences opposite coxa? of 3rd pair of legs. 



Abdomen ohlong-oval, moderately convex above ; rather 

 sparsely clothed with short yellowish hairs ; olive - brown, 

 mottled with yellow-brown flecks ; dorsal mark similar tint, 

 lageniform, extends three-fourths length of abdomen from base, 

 margined and marked with dark-brown ; nearly in centre of 

 basal part — which is large, and nearly circular — is a small 

 yellowish cross ; beyond the neck-like posterior end are two 

 dark angular marks, apices directed forwards ; ventral surface 

 yellowish. Vulva broAvnish, moderately convex eminence, con- 

 cave within, centrally produced into a broad, rounded scapns, 

 directed backwards. 



Otago, P. Goyen. 



Genus Theridium, Walck. 

 Theridium nigrqfolium , sp. n. Plate XI., fig. 8. 



Female. — Ceph. tb., long, 1*5; broad, 1; Abd., long, 2-3; 

 broad, 2. Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 7, 6-8, 5-2, 3-5 mm. 



Pars thoracica light -brown, somewhat streaked; pars 

 cephalica and marginal zone dark-brown ; oval, rugulose, 

 slightly compressed forwards, ocular eminence prominent, trans- 

 verse groove behind first row of eyes; caput strongly convex, 

 groove well-marked ; thoracic fovea oval, radial stria? rather 

 faint ; profile line represents a rather abrupt curve posteriorly, 

 slight arch across caput ; clypeus directed forward ; in height 

 rather less than depth of facial space. 



Posterior row of eyes moderately procurved ; centrals ex- 

 ceed laterals in size by about one-fourth, nearly their diameter 

 apart, about twice that space from anterior pair, rather more 

 than former interval from side-eyes; anterior row strongly re- 

 curved, centrals prominent, perceptibly smaller than posterior 

 pair, rather farther from each other than are the hind-median 

 eyes; laterals have l lie pearl-grey lustre of posterior-centrals, 

 seated obliquely on strong brownish tubercles, nearly contiguous. 



