BY \V. .T. RAINBOW. 323 



Genus E p E I H a, Walck. 

 Epeira ficta, sp.nov. 



(Plate XVIII. figs. 2, 2rt.) 



5. Cephalothorax 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad; abdomen 5 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax pale yellow. Caput elevated, rounded on sides 

 and upper part; a few short fine pale yellow hairs in front and at 

 sides. Clypeihs broad, strongly convex; normal grooves indistinct. 

 Marginal hand narrow. 



Eyes black; the four intermediate ones seated on a somewhat 

 quadrangular protuberance, forming a square or nearly so; of 

 these the pair comprising the first row are separated from each 

 other by a distance equal to their individual diameter, those of 

 the second by about one-half, and each row is separated from the 

 other by about the diameter of one eye; lateral pairs much the 

 smallest of the group, placed obliquely on small protuberances, 

 and almost contiguous. 



Legs moderately long and strong, pale yellow, armed with 

 strong black spines, and sparingly clothed with short fine yellow 

 hairs; relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi short, pale yellow, clothed with fine yellow hairs, con- 

 siderably longer than those of the legs. 



Falcet pale yellow, strong; the margins of each falx armed with 

 a row of three teeth; fangs yellowish-brown. 



Maxillce pale yellow, arched, inner margins thickly fringed 

 with yellow hairs. 



Labium concolorous, broad at base, strongly arched, one-half 

 the length of maxilkt^. 



Steritnni cordate, yellowish-green, tiiincate in front, bare and 

 uneven. 



Abdomen broad, ovate, overhanging base of cephalothorax 

 strongly convex, green colour; with two large yellow spots, edged 

 with dark brown towards anterior extremity; contiguous to each 

 of these there is a much smaller yellow spot edged with dark 



