114 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Anterior row of e;/es recurved ; posterior row moderately 

 procurved, centrals nearly one-third larger than laterals, sepa- 

 rated from one another by a space slightly exceeding their 

 diameter, rather more than that interval from lateral eyes next 

 to them and anterior median pair, with which they nearly form 

 a square ; fore-centrals placed on a moderate prominence, nearly 

 equal laterals in size, rather further from each other than they 

 are from latter eyes ; laterals seated obliquely, close together, 

 on moderate tubercles, have the pearl-grey lustre of hind-median 

 eyes. 



Legs moderately long and slender, dark straw - colour, 

 numerous dark-brown spots ; genua and annuli at articulation of 

 joints red-mahogany colour ; strong black hairs on inferior side 

 of metatarsi and tarsi. Superior tarsal claws — 1st pair, 5 teeth, 

 3 terminal strong ; inferior claw, 2 small teeth. 



Palpi slender, about equal to cephalothorax in length, 

 resemble legs in colour ; palpal claw similar to tarsal claw, 5 

 teeth. 



Falces conical, vertical, about equal to humeral joint of 

 palpus in length ; dark straw-colour, mottled with dark-brown. 



Maxilla: more than twice as long as broad, obliquely pointed, 

 inclined towards labium, which is broader than long, nearly 

 semicircular ; organs yellowish, olive tinge. 



Sternum broad - cordate ; dull olive -yellow, spotted and 

 margined with chestnut-brown. 



Abdomen oviform, pointed posteriorly ; light stone-colour ; 

 folium large, not well-defined, shade darker than ground-colour, 

 flecked with black, few red-lake spots, latter numerous on pos- 

 terior half; longitudinal band, or midrib, creamy-colour; on 

 lateral margins broad bands, with lake-coloured spots, extend 

 from base to the reddish portion of dorsal folium ; beneath these 

 bands and on ventral surface the integument is spotted with 

 black. 



Vulva, viewed from above, somewhat reniform, projects 

 forwards over the rima genitalis, blackish; red-chestnut, fan- 

 shaped mark above ; margins on inferior side very tumid, cleft 

 by a broad longitudinal groove, on either side of groove are large 

 circular fovea. 



Var. a, nov. 



Cephalothorax and legs of a lighter hue than type form ; spots 

 and annulations on legs less defined. Abdomen pale stone-colour, 

 folium faintly defined, posterior margins picked out with black- 

 brown, mid-rib and oblique marks creamy colour, yellowish-red 

 spots. 



Three specimens were captured on Leptospermwm, Port 

 Waikato, A.T.U. 



