292 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID.^ OF N.S.W., 



lustre, and their margins tinged with red ; a few short hoary- 

 hairs are scattered over the superior surface and sides. Inferior 

 surface pale yellow, furnished with short yellowish hairs. 



Ejyigyne reddish-brown, broad, anterior margin curved, lower 

 margin indented at middle. 



Hah. — Clarence River. 



Family THOMISID^. 



Sub-Family STEPHANOPISIU.^. 



Genus Stephanopis, Cambr. 



Stephanopis hirsuta, sp.nov. 

 (Plate X. figs. 4, 4a, 46, 4c, 4.d, 4e, if.) 



9- Cephalothorax, 4mm. long; abdomen 6mm. long. 



Cephalothorax nearly as broad as long, somewhat convex. Caput 

 elevated, sloping forward, deeply cleft, with a shallow indentation 

 commencing in front, separating the two central eyes, running to 

 the base of the cephalic eminence, besides which there are also 

 several tubercles scattered over its surface ; colour yellow-brown, 

 the tubercles dark, approaching bistre. Clyj)eus yellow-brown, 

 the tubercles similar in colour to those seated on the cephalic emi- 

 nence, and radiating from the centre to the marginal band ; its 

 surface clothed with short coarse yellow-brown hairs. Marginal 

 hand na-rrow, fringed with tawny hairs. 



Eyes forming a ring or corona around the upper part of the 

 cephalic eminence, four of them being seated at the back in a 

 slightly curved row — the curvature being directed downwards 

 towards the sides ; tliese are equal in size, equidistant, each 

 being separated from its neighbour by a distance subequal to its 

 diameter ; front lateral eyes somewhat larger tl)an those of the 

 hinder row, and separated from each other by fully the diameter 

 of two eyes ; front central eyes much the smallest of the eight, 

 seated lower down the cephalic eminence than the laterals, but 

 each central eye situated nearer to the lateral eye than to each 

 other. 



