18 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID-E OF N.S.W., 



Epigyne a long transverse, curved slit, curvature directed 

 forwards ; u})per lip with a tolerably strong indentation at centre. 

 Hah. — Sydney. 



Epeira pulchra, sp.no v. 

 (Plate III. figs. 2, 2a, 2b, 3, 3a.) 



9. Cephalothorax, 1-5 ram. long, I mm. broad; abdomen, 2mm. 

 long, 2 mm. broad. 



Cei)halothorax yellow-brown, sparsely furnished with a few long 

 hoary hairs. Caput elevated, rounded on sides and up])er part, 

 normal grooves and indentations distinct ; ocular area furnished 

 with a few long, coarse, hoary haii's. Clypeus broad, convex, 

 darker than cephalic eminence. Marginal hand narrow, nearly 

 black, fringed with short black hairs. 

 Eyes arranged as in E. diver sicolor. 



Legs long, strong, pale yellow, with dark annulations, and 

 furnished with long strong yellowish hairs, and short strong 

 spines ; relative lengths, 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Paljji concolorous, long, strong, and similar in armature to the 

 legs. 



Falces yellow^ish, rather darker at base and extremities, furnished 



with a few short hairs, and armed with teeth on the inner surface. 



Maxillm yellowish ; short, strong, broad, convex, inclined 



inwards ; thickly fringed with short strong hairs at inner margin 



of apex, a few short black ones on outer extremity. 



Lahium concolorous, coniform, furnished with fringe of short 

 blackish hairs at apex. 



Sternum yellow-brov.-n, shield-shaped, broad, sparsely clothed 

 with long white hairs. 



Ahdomen broad-ovate, projecting over base of cephalothorax, 

 convex, furnished with a few long strong hairs ; a large, dark, 

 leaf-like mark, mottled with bright yellow, whose lateral markings 

 are sinuous, and which tapers to the spinnerets, commences nearly 

 midway, and extends along the middle ; a broad bright yellow 

 patch, delicately marked w^ith irregular brown tracings, and also 

 divided by a rather broad median dark brown band, is seated at 



