156 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^ OF N.S.W. 



Cephalothorax tuberculate, deeply curved inwards in front, dark 

 brown (approaching sepia), glossy, furnished with a few long coarse 

 hairs or bristles ; caput elevated, terminating with a strong, pro- 

 minent ocular eminence ; clypeus broad, convex, exceedingly 

 rough, furnished with six horn-like tubercles of a yellow-brown 

 colour ; the front lateral pair is much the smallest and widest 

 apart, the second considerably larger and perpendicular, the third 

 pair is the highest of the group, the tubercles placed one behind 

 the other and united at their base, which is broad ; of these latter 

 the front tubercle is directed forward, and the second backward. 



Eyes glossy black; the four intermediate eyes are the largest of 

 the group, forming a square, and placed towards the summit of the 

 tubercular ocular eminence, which is yellow-brown at its base and 

 black at apex ; those of each lateral pair are exceedingly minute 

 and contiguous, and are placed at the extremity of an "arm-like" 

 protuberance extending from the base of the tubercular ocular 

 eminence. 



Legs moderately long and strong, yellow-brown, furnished with 

 long coarse hairs which stand out at right angles ; each tarsus 

 terminates with four curved claws, the two superior ones of which 

 are much the longer and stronger, and have a row of teeth near 

 their base on the underside. Relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi moderately long, similar in colour and armature to the 

 legs. 



Falces inclined inwards, long, strong, dark brown, clothed with 

 coarse and bristly hairs. 



Maxillae dull yellowish-brown, long, strong, inclined inwards, 

 broadest at apex. 



Labium concolorous, short, broad, rounded off at apex. 



Sternum concolorous, cordate, sparingly hairy. 



Abdomen broad-ovate, projecting over base of cephalothorax, 

 convex; dull yellowish-brown, thickly clothed with exceedingly 

 long yellowish coarse hairs ; there are six lateral tubercles, the 

 first pair of which is seated well forwards, and are somewhat the 

 largest, the second and third pairs placed towards the posterior 



