BY W. J. RAINBOW. 325 



Epeira Wagner I, sp.llo^•. 

 (Plate XIX. figs. 2, 2«, 26, 2c, 2d.) 



9. Cephalothorax 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide; abdomen 6 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. wide. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown. Capnt ele\ated, rounded on sides 

 and upper part. Clypeus broad, convex, normal grooves indistinct; 

 a deep transverse cleft at centre. Marg'nuil hand narrow, black. 



Eyes black; the four central eyes forming a square or nearly so; 

 front pair separated from each other by about one eye's diameter, 

 second pair by a distance equal to about three- fourths of their 

 individual diameter; lateral pairs seated obliquely on tubercles, 

 much the smallest of the group. 



f.egs long, strong, clothed with short black hairs and spines; coxae 

 pale straw colour; trnch'inters with lower half pale straw colour, 

 the I'emainder reddish-brown: /■■iiuir.<, tibia', and tarsi reddish- 

 brown. Relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi long, similar in colour and armature to legs. 



FalcS'S reddish-brown, shiny, inner margin fringed with short 

 hairs; the outer margin of the furrow of each falx armed with 

 three teeth, and the inner two; fangs strong, dark brown. 



Maxillce yellow -brown, convex exteriorly, a thick fringe of short 

 black hairs on inner margins, a few long black ones on the outer 

 margins. 



Labium broad, half the height of maxilla^, rounded off at 

 apex. 



■^'teniinn shield-shaped, dark brown, lighter at the middle; 

 surface uneven. 



Abdoni".!!. oblong, convex, slightly projecting over base of 

 cephalothorax; upper surface mottled 3'ellow and brown; at 

 antei-ior extremity two large dark and brown patches laterally; 

 four rather deep indentations at the centre; a large leaf-like 

 design, darkest at its outer edges, I'uns th? entire length of the 

 upper surface; sides mottled dark brown anr] yellow, with green 

 markings; inferior surface yellowish, with dark brown patches. 



