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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^ OF NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. No. 10. 



By W. J. Rainbow, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



(Entomologist to the Australian Museum.) 



Plate xviii. 



The present paper contains descriptions of three apparently- 

 new species, viz., one Storena, one Araneus, and one Stephanopsis. 

 A species of Celcenia, probably distincta, O. P. Camb., is also 

 described. 



Family ZODARIID^. 



Subfamily ZODARIIN.aE. 



Simon divides this subfamily into five sections, viz., Hermippese, 

 Storene{«, Trygetinse, Suffuciese, and Zodariese. The first of these 

 embraces only one species — Hermippus loricahis, E. Sim. — and 

 this is only known from Central Africa; the second includes four 

 genera : Lachea, Thor. ; Storenosoma, Hogg ; Storena, Walck. ; 

 and Lufica, G. Marx;* this is the only group in the Zodariinse 

 that is represented in Australia, and this, again, by two genera 

 — Storenosoma and Storena. The latter, which is one of thej 

 most polymorphous, has a wide range, occurring, according to| 

 Simon, in the " Regio mediterranea occid. et orient.; Afric. trop.; 

 Indo-China; Malaisia; N. Guinea, N. Hollandia, N. Caledonia etj 

 Polynesia; Amer. septentr. sequator. et australis." 



Storena appears to be more numerous in species in Australia] 

 than elsewhere, fifteen having been previously recorded, and' 

 all from the mainland. S.Jormosa, L. Koch, which was originally 

 recorded from Bowen, and which is not uncommon around Sydney, 

 occurs also in Tasmania. 



* Simon, Hist. Nat. des Araignees, 2nd ed., pt. ii., 1893, p. 423, et seq. 



