350 NEW ARANEIDiE OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



spines; tnetatarsi and tarsi dark brown approaching sepia, thickly 

 clothed with dark bristles; superior tarsal claws moderately long, 

 curved and pectinated; inferior claw sharply curved. Relative 

 lengths 1, 2, 4, 3; of these the first pair are the longest, the 

 second and fourth pairs coequal; third pair much the shortest. 



Palpi moderately long, similar in colour and armature; terminal 

 claw slightly curved, and armed with four teeth near the base on 

 the underside. 



Falces dark brown, vertical, somewhat conical, divergent at 

 apex; the margins of the furrows of each falx armed with a row 

 of five teeth. 



MaxillcE dark brown, approaching bistre, rather longer than 

 broad, divergent, fringed with rather long black hairs. 



Labium dark brown, longer than broad, about the length of 

 maxillae. 



Sferfiuni shield-shaped, sparingly hairy, tubercular, yellow- 

 brown; dark brown patch at centre. 



Ahdomen ovate; moderately convex, projecting over base of 

 cephalothorax; superior surface pubescent, light brown, orna- 

 mented by a large number of symmetrically disposed punctures, 

 six of the largest of which are situated tolerably well forward, 

 forming a somewhat triangular figure; immediately above these 

 there are 12 smaller punctures forming an arch, and immediately 

 underneath seven minute ones arranged in the following order : — 

 1, 2, 1, 2, 1; in addition to these there are 11 other punctures as 

 large as those comprising the triangular figure, disposed in three 

 rows, each slightly curved, the curvature being directed forward; 

 of these the first row, which is situated near the centre, contains 

 three, and the second and third four each; besides the punctures 

 herein described the posterior portion of the abdomen is further 

 ornamented by four tolerably distinct longitudinal parallel lines 

 or markings; each lateral line commences at the centre of the 

 lateral punctures of the first row of three, and running to the tip 

 of the abdomen intersects each lateral puncture of the second and 

 third rows; the inner lines commence as a single one at a point 



