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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^ OF NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. No. 6. 



By W. J. Rainbow. 



(Plates XVIII. -XX.) 



Family EPEIRID^. 



Genus N e p ii i L a, Leach. 



Nephila ornata, sp.nov. 



(Plate xviii. figs. 1, Irt, Ih.) 



Q. Cephalothorax 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad; abdomen 7 mm, 

 long, 4 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax dark mahogany brown, thickly clothed with 

 silvery white hair; caput elevated, rounded on sides and upper 

 part, deeply compressed at junction of cephalic and thoracic 

 segments; two coniform tubercles at posterior extremity of cephalic 

 segment. Clypeus broad, moderately convex; a deep transverse 

 groove at centre, indented laterally; indentations bare, transverse 

 groove sparingly clothed with hoary pubescence. 



Eyes glossy black; the four central eyes are seated on a 

 moderately convex eminence and form an almost quadrangular 

 figure; of these the two comprising the front row are somewhat 

 closer together than the hinder pair; the lateral eyes are much 

 the smallest of the group, and are placed obliquely on small 

 tubercles, but are not contiguous. 



Legs long, slender, yellow-brown, a few fine yellow hairs; tarsi 

 dark brown. Relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3; of these the second and 

 fourth pairs are almost equal, and the third much the shortest. 



Palpi rather short, somewhat darker than the legs, rather 

 thickly clothed with short dark hairs. 



