322 SOME NEW ARANEID.E OF N.S.W., 



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

 convex eminence, and form an almost quadrangular figure; the 

 lateral pair are much the smallest, and are placed obliquely on 

 small tubercles, but are not contiguous. 



Legs long, slender, black, with broad yellow annulations; 

 trochanters and femurs of first 2 pairs and femurs only of third 

 and fourth pairs furnished at lower extremities with long black 

 hairy plumes; tibial joints, vietatarsi and tarsi black. 



Palpi long, black, clothed with long black hairs or bristles. 



Fahes black, arched in front, slightly divergent, a few short 

 black hairs on inner margins; a row of three teeth on each margin 

 of the furrow of each falx wherein the fang lies when at rest; 

 fangs black. 



MaxillcH club-shaped, arched, outer margins black, inner margins 

 shiny, yellowish. 



Lahixcm conical, rather longer than broad, black at base, shiny 

 and yellowish at apex. 



Sternum cordate, longer than broad, surface uneven, black, 

 with four small yellow lateral patches, a broad transverse curved 

 yellow band at anterior part, and a small yellow patch at posterior 

 extremity. 



Abdomen ovate, projecting over base of cephalothorax, superior 

 surface sparingly pubescent, olive-green, spotted with yellow and 

 ornamented with a network pattern of tracery, and two rather 

 large yellow spots at centre; sides similar in colour to superior 

 surface; inferior surface dark, ornamented with a broad wavy 

 transverse yellow band situated just below epigyne; besides this 

 there are three other transverse yellow lines seated lower down, 

 the first of which is curved in a posterior direction, and the two 

 others forward. 



Epigyne dark, strongly arched, concave within. 



/^a6.— Condobolin, N.S.W. 



Type specimen in the collection of the Australian Museum, to 

 the Trustees of which Institution I am indebted for the privilege 

 of describing it. 



