TWO NEW THOMISIDS — RAINBOW. 175 



subject to a slight variation in colour ; posterior pairs pale 

 yellowish, with dark brown markings. Relative lengths 1 = 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi short, dark brown, hairy. 



Falces robust, concolorous, clothed with short stiff hairs. 



Maxillce dark brown above, outer angles yellowish, moderately 

 long, arched, inclining inwards, apices obtuse, surface clothed with 

 short, stiff hairs. 



Labium dark brown, coniform, convex, clothed with coarse 

 greyish hairs. 



Stervium greyish, oval, moderately convex, truncated in front, 

 obtuse behind, clothed with coarse greyish hairs. 



Abdomen oval, moderately arched, truncated in front, projecting 

 over base of cephalothorax ; anterior, lateral, and posterior angles 

 furrowed ; superior surface and sides sparingly clothed with short 

 black hairs ; near the posterior angle, and in the median line, 

 there is a rather deep puncture ; below this, and at about one- 

 third the length of the abdomen, there is a row of two punctures, 

 equally as deep and large as the one referred to above, but widely 

 separated from each other ; below these, and just beyond the 

 centre, there is another row of two, but these are much larger 

 than the preceding, and rather wider apart ; a little below the 

 second pair there is a recurved row of punctures, the lateral 

 individuals of which are smaller than those already described, 

 whilst the intermediate series (six) is much smaller still ; below 

 this again there is another recurved row of six small punctures ; 

 each of the recurved rows here described are seated in two trans- 

 verse furrows ; lateral angles furrowed longitudinally and finely 

 punctured ; dorsal, ventral, and lateral surfaces dull yellowish. 



Epigyne as in figure. 



Obs. — In gravid specimens the abdomen assumes a somewhat 

 spherical form, the furrows and small punctures are entirely 

 absent, whilst the deep, dorsal punctures so prominent in normal 

 examples, are only barely visible. 



Hah. Aelong (VV. W. Froggatt); Williams River (G. Masters); 

 Tamworth (D. A. Porter). 



