1 20 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Maxilla nearly as broad as long, pointed, inclined towards 

 labium, which is rather broader than long, pointed, everted; 

 base of organs chocolate-brown, apices pale. 



Sternum cordate, moderately broad ; brown-black ; whitish 

 hairs. 



Abdomen oviform, rather depressed above, anterior tubercles, 

 short, conical ; first row of posterior tubercles of about equal 

 size, slightly longer than anterior pair ; tubercles of second and 

 third rows moderate ; ground-colour dark-brown ; folium darker, 

 margins undulating, covered with more or less connected 

 lobed flecks of a yellow-brown colour, spotted with lake-brown ; 

 on base and in centre of four impressed spots, hind pair deep, 

 are dark-brown marks of irregular form ; lateral margins thickly 

 spotted with flecks, similar but smaller than dorsal ; olive- 

 brown yellow 7 margined shield-shaped mark on ventral surface ; 

 yellow-brown, pyriform marks beneath branchial opercula ; spots 

 of similar hue above spinners. Vulva yellow-brown; corpus 

 vulvas cucullate, lateral margins nearly equal centre in depth, 

 transversely wrinkled ; fore-margin beaded, curves within, en- 

 closing two chocolate-brown fovea ; corpus vulvae centrally pro- 

 duced into a somewhat elliptical process, fore-half of margin 

 rather more tumid than margin of hood, and of a dark-brown 

 colour ; amber-coloured, vermiform scape at apex of process 

 equals it in length. 



Captured in the Tikitapu Bush, near Lake Tarawera, 

 February, 1887, A.T.U. 



Epeira tri-tuberculata, sp. nov. Plate XI., fig. 7, 8. 



Male.— Ceph. th., long, 2-9 ; broad, 2. Abd., long, 2-9 ; 

 broad, 2-5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 12, 10, 9, 7 mm. 



Cephalothora.v olive-brown, shading off to a somewhat flesh- 

 coloured light-brown about caput ; two broad bands of a similar 

 hue extend from base of latter to thoracic junction, enclosing a 

 brown linear-oval space ; lighter parts clothed with white hairs; 

 pars thoracica nearly circular, median fovea oval, normal grooves 

 slight ; pars cephalica prominent in front, transverse indenta- 

 tion near centre. 



Four central eyes on a strong eminence, hind pair smallest, 

 separated from each other by about their diameter ; fore pair 

 rather more than their breadth apart, about that interval from 

 posterior-centrals ; laterals placed obliquely on rather strong 

 tubercles, less than their radius apart. 



Lcijs moderately slender, 2-4 nearly equal in length ; 

 pellucid, pale stone-colour, spotted, and more or less annulated 

 with chocolate-brown: armature, lint' lighi hairs, numerous, 

 rather short, erect, black spines; tibia of 2nd pair strong, pro- 

 duced at fore-end, on inner side, into stout, somewhat conical, 



