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six smaller individuals; of the latter the anterior pair are the 

 smallest, the lateral pair much the broadest at the base, and 

 encircled with a fine black line; the intervening space between 

 the anterior and posterior tubercles is very uneven; at the base 

 of the three protuberances forming the median group there are 

 both in front and behind two rather deep punctures or pits, and 

 of these the anterior pair are the widest apart. 



Again, in his description, Cambridge says : — " The upper side 

 is of a dull sooty hue, mapped out into rather roundish-angled 

 patches, of various forms and sizes, which are divided from each 

 other by clear and intersecting straw-yellow stripes; most of these 

 patches have a central blackish spot on the fore part." From 

 this description, however, the form under study differs in that 

 the roundish-angled patches are moss-green; the intersecting straw- 

 coloured stripes are present as described by Cambridge, but 

 whereas, according to this writer, " the patches above described 

 are almost obsolete on the middle and hinder part of the upper 

 side, which are of a plain straw-yellow colour," in this example 

 these patches are distinct and of a yellowish-grey hue; further- 

 more, there is present at the posterior extremity two distinct 

 dark brown lines, connected in front by a gently procurved 

 transverse bar; in addition there are also two disconnected, 

 lateral, faintly visible brown lines; these curve gently outwards 

 to the posterior angle, and are, like their more distinct neigh- 

 bours, continued on the underside, and converge towards the 

 spinnerets. Cambridge also described his example as having a 

 number of long, black, lanceolate bristles upon the anterior part 

 of the abdomen and sides (vide description and figure), but these 

 are altogether wanting in the form before me. The inferior 

 surface, sides and hinder slope agree with Cambridge's descrip- 

 tion. The abdomen, both above, laterally, and below, is clothed 

 with fine yellowish pubescence, but these hairs are not nearly so 

 long as those figured by Cambridge. 



Hob. — North Sydney. 



In a former paper, " Descriptions of Some New Araneidse of 

 New South Wales," No. 8, published in the P.L.S.N.S.W., 1897, 



