4:SQ DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^E OF N.S.^Y., 



joints; each ambulatory limb is armed with a few long but not 

 strong spines, and clothed with short black hairs. Relative 

 lengths : 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Falpi long, tapering, black, armed with long but not strong 

 spines, and clothed with short black hairs. 



Falces black, shining, arched, apices divergent, furnished with 

 long black bristles. 



Maxillce strong, arched, shining, apices obtuse and divergent, 

 outer angles and upper surface black, inner margins golden brown 

 at base, pale yellowish at tips; inner angles fringed with long- 

 white hairs. 



Labium broader than long, arched, rounded off at apex, 

 shining, the base black, and the apex golden brown. 



Sternum oblong-oval, black, glossy, moderately convex, hairy. 

 Abdomen ovate, convex, barely overhanging base of cephalo- 

 thorax, pubescent, black-brown with metallic scintillations, 

 ornamented with large and small median and lateral oval, round, 

 and reniform patches of white hairs, distributed as illustrated in 

 the figure; sides speckled with white; ventral surface dark brown. 

 Epigyne as in figure. 

 Loc. — Burwood. 



This species, by its scintillations, recalls the Rev. 0. P. Cam- 

 bridge's spider, S. scintillaiis, but differs therefrom not only in 

 size and ornamentation, but also by the fact that the eyes of 

 the posterior row are equally as large as those of the anterior 

 row, whilst in scintillans the anterior eyes are much smaller than 

 their posterior neighbours. 



Family ARGIOPID^. 



Subfamily ARGIOPIN-ffi. 



Genus A r a n e u s, Walck. 



Araneus liberalis, sp.nov. 



(Plate xviii., figs. 2, 2a.) 



9. Cephalothorax 2-G mm. long, 18 mm. broad; abdomen 

 4 4 mm. long, 4 mm. broad. 



