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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^ OF NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. No. 1. 



By W. J. Rainbow. 



(Plate XII.) 



Family THOMISID^. V 



Genus Stephanopis, Cambr. 

 Stephanopis aspera, sp.uov. 



2- Cephalothorax, 4mm. long; abdomen, 7 mm. long. 



Cephalothorax nearly as broad as long, somewhat convex : caput 

 elevated, sloping forward, terminating in an almost perpendicular 

 eminence, on the extremity of which are several tubercles ; on the 

 back, front and sides also a number of tubercles, all of them 

 bluntish, yellow-brown at the base and dark brown at the apex ; 

 the junction of the cephalic and thoracic segments indicated by 

 strong, deep, lateral clefts, the projections formed by the clefts 

 strongly tuberculated ; at the centre of the cephalothorax a large, 

 strong, coniform tubercle, with several radiating clefts, their 

 margins strongly tuberculated : clypeus strongly rugulose and 

 tuberculated ; its surface yellow-brown, the tubercles dark brown. 



Eyes eight in number, forming a ring or corona around the 

 upper part of the cephalic eminence ; of these the four seated at 

 the back in a slightly curved series — the curvature being directed 

 downwards towards the sides — the largest of the group, equal, 

 equi-distant, each being separated from its neighbours by a distance 

 sub-equal to its diameter ; front lateral eyes slightly smaller than 

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