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largest elongate, in centre of the four central impressed spots, 

 which are well-defined, form a trapezoid ; smallest mark be- 

 tween hind pair of impressed spots ; series of oblique, dark- 

 brown bands on lateral margins. On ventral surface is a dark- 

 green, transversely wrinkled, shield-shaped mark ; two large 

 crearny spots beneath branchial opercula are prolonged into 

 narrow bands along its lateral margins ; two smaller spots of 

 similar hue above spinners. Corpus of vulva cucullate, trans- 

 versely wrinkled ; margins, which are very tumid near scape, 

 encircle chocolate-brown fovea beneath hood ; corpus vulvae 

 centrally produced into a broad-oval scape, about as wide as 

 long, its beaded margins are about one-half the maximum 

 breadth of the corpus margin ; yellow amber-coloured vermiform 

 process at apex of scapus rather exceeds it in length. 

 Whangarei, T. Broun; Te Karaka, A.T.U. 



Epeira helveo-guttata, sp. nov. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 4 ; broad, 4 ; facial index, 2. 

 Abd., long, 7 ; broad, 7. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 15, 14, 12-2, 8 mm. 



( ejihalotJiorax light chocolate-brown, caput palest ; clothed, 

 chiefly on margins, with yellowish hairs ; equal in length to 

 genual and tibial joints of a leg of 4th pair; sides rounded, mode- 

 rately compressed forwards ; caput depressed, lateral index 

 about equal to space between a hind-lateral and hind-central 

 eye next to it ; ocular prominence, and mammiform eminences, 

 moderately developed ; thoracic indentation somewhat linear- 

 oval, transverse ; normal grooves not well-marked ; clypeus in 

 height equal to two-thirds of depth of eye-area. 



Fore and hind row of eyes slightly, and somewhat evenly, 

 recurved ; four central eyes nearly form a square, anterior side 

 being rather the widest ; fore pair perceptably the largest, sepa- 

 rated from one another by their diameter and a quarter, rather 

 less than that interval from posterior-centrals, which are nearly 

 twice their space from hind-laterals ; side-eyes placed obliquely 

 on low tubercles, about three-fourths their diameter apart. 



Legs moderately stout ; femora of 1-2, lake -coloured, of 

 3-4, colour of cephalothorax, other joints yellow-brown, light- 

 brown annulations ; longitudinal grooves on tibial joints rather 

 faint ; armature short light hairs ; spines yellowish ; tibial 

 spines rather less than diameter of article in length ; double row 

 of 6 beneath tibiaa of 1-2 ; beneath metatarsi, outer row 5 

 spines, inner 6 ; superior tarsal claws — 1st pair, 9 teeth ; infe- 

 rior claw 2 close, even teeth. 



Palpi 4-5 mm. in length ; armature and colour of legs ; 

 palpal claw 7 teeth. 



Fakes light-brown, vertical, couical, project at base in front, 

 as thick as femora of a leg of 1st pair. 



