348 NEW ARANEID^ OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Legs long, slender, yellow-brown; trochanters sparingly pubes- 

 cent, few short spines; femora thickly clothed with long yellow 

 hairs, and armed with rather short spines; tibial joints armed with 

 sliort spines and bristles; metatarsi and ta,rsi dark brown, thickly 

 clothed with short dark brown bristles; superior tarsal claws 

 moderately long, curved and pectinated; inferior cla^v sharply 

 curved. Relative lengths of legs 1, 2, 4, 3; of these the third pair 

 are much the shortest. 



Falces dark brown, approaching bistre, somewhat conical, diver- 

 gent at apex; the margins of the furrows of each falx are armed 

 with a row of five teeth. 



MaxiUce yellow-brown, outer margins bistre, rather longer than 

 broad, divergent; few coarse dark hairs. 



Labium yellow-brown, longer than broad, about half the length 

 of maxillae; furnished with a few short dark hairs. 



Sternum yellow-brown, shield-shaped, outline sinuous; surface 

 uneven, sparingly clothed with white pubescence. 



Abdomen ovate, moderately convex, projecting over base of 

 cephalothorax; superior surface sparingly pubescent, yellow-brown, 

 somewhat darker towards posterior extremity; ornamented with 

 17 spots, and, from near centre to posterior extremity, five indis- 

 tinct parallel, though somewhat uneven, lines; of the former there 

 are six conspicuous spots and 1 \ minute ones; the larger ones are 

 distributed in three pairs, the first of which is seated well forward; 

 between the individuals comprising the first pair there is a minute 

 spot; below the first pair there are six minute spots, arranged in 

 two rows, the first of which contains four individuals, and is 

 slightly curved; the second pair are placed near the centre, and 

 each spot of the first and second pairs are relieved by an almost 

 circular yellow patch or disc, rather more than its own diameter; 

 the third pair are seated lower down, but are not nearly so dark 

 as those of the first and second pairs, nor are they relieved in like 

 manner; towards the posterior extremity there are two smaller 

 and less distinct pairs; the parallel lines or markings commence 

 at a point above second pair of spots, and run midway between 



