BY W. J. RAINBOW. 525 



Oephahthorax orange-yellow, smooth, glossy. Pars cephalica 

 arched, elevated in front, but not bilobed. Pars thoracica arched, 

 broad, normal grooves distinct. 



Eyes normal. 



Legs long, slender, tapering, hair}'- ; coxse and trochanters 

 orange-yellow, thence dark brown, except in the fourth pair, 

 which have the tarsi orange-yellow. Relative lengths: 1, 2, 4, 3, 

 and of these the first pair is, as usual, the longest. 



Palpi short, hairy, orange-yellow. 



Falces, maxillce, labium and sternu^n concolorous, normal. 



Abdomen finely pubescent, arched, short, the height distinctly 

 greater than the length; from the base, which is low, it ascends 

 boldly until it terminates in a somewhat conical and obtuse point. 

 Its general colour is clay-yellow, relieved on the upper surface 

 with four large dark brown spots, arranged in rows of two each; 

 of these the first pair is seated at a little more than one-third the 

 space from the base, and the second pair by an equal distance 

 from the apex at the posterior extremity; sides and inferior 

 surface clay-yellow with dark brown markings. 



Epigyne as in figure. 



Log. — Torres Island, between New Hebrides and Santa Cruz 

 Groups. 



Mr. Walker succeeded in securing three specimens of the species 

 herein described — one male and two females. Simon has recorded 

 from Malekula, New Hebrides, A. miniatus of Doleschall; and 

 from New Caledonia, A. sublimis, L. Koch."^ The latter was 

 originally recorded from the island of Upolu, but it also occurs 

 in Australia. The previously recorded species from Australia 

 and the South Sea Islands are : — A. samoerisis, Camb., Samoa; 

 A. anfApodiana, Camb., Australia and New Zealand; A. sublimis, 

 L. Koch, Upolu; A. gracilis, L. Kocli, Upolu; A. malleiformis, 

 L. Koch, Upolu; A. incisifrons, Keys., Bo wen and Sydney; A. 

 miniatus, Dolesch., found in all tropical regions. The species des- 

 cribed by met ^'^ Theridion ynargaritarium is also an Argyrodes 



* Simon, Ann. de la Soc. Entom. France, 1897, p. 272. 

 t P.L.S.N.S.W., Vol. viii. (2nd Series), 1893, p. 290, pi. x., figs. .3, 3a, 36, 3c. 



