326 SOME NEW ARANEID^ OF N.S.W., 



The males of this species are pigmies in comparison to the 

 females, but are exactly like them in colour and formation. The 

 sexes pair during January and February, and live together in the 

 same nest during that period. A more detailed account of their 

 nidification, <kc., will be found in another part of this paper. I 

 have much pleasure in dedicating this species to my esteemed 

 contemporary and correspondent, Professor Waldemar Wagner, of 

 Moscow, who has published an admiral)le work, '• L'Industrie des 

 Araneina," in the " Memoires de L'Acad^mie Imperiale des 

 Sciences de St. Petersbourg. vii'^ Serie. Tome xlvii. No. 11." 



Ilab. — Sydney. 



Family LYCOSID^E. 



Genus D o l o ai e d e s, Latr. 



DOLOMEDES XEPTUNUS, sp.nov. 



(Plate XVIII., figs. 4, in.) 



9. Cephalothorax 4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; aljdomen 3 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. broad. 



''ephalothonix pale yellowish, strongl}^ convex, clothed with pale 

 yellowish pubescence; normal grooves and indentations indistinct. 

 Marginal band broad. 



Eyes black; front row smallest of the group, and slightly pro- 

 curved, middle eyes somewhat larger than their lateral neighbours, 

 all equidistant; eyes of second row large, separated by a space 

 equal to once their indi^•idual diameter; third row large, separated 

 from each other by four diameters. 



Legs strong, moderately long, pale yellowish; clothed with 

 yellowish pubescence, and short, strong l)lack spines. Relative 

 lengths 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Palpi moderately long; similar in colour and armature to legs. 



Falces slightly divergent, strong, pale yellowish, clothed with 

 pale yellowish pubescence, arched in front; a row of three 

 black teeth along the margins of the furrow of each falx, those 



