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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



my friend, Mr. A G. Hamilton, gave me a 

 photograph of D. maynijicus with egg-hags and 

 nesl , and that spider also is shown resting head 

 upwards. 



The egg-hags of D. furcatus differ from those 

 of D magnificus ; they are smaller, have a 

 shorter peduncle, which latter have again 

 flattened apical extensions, that are directed 

 either at right or oblique angles according to 

 the position of the objects to which they are 

 attached. The effect of these flattened exten- 

 sions is to give to the egg-bag a flask-like 

 appearance. In other respects, both externally 

 and internally, those now figured are similar 

 to the ones previously described by me, and 

 quoted above. Besides these egg-bags, there 

 is, in the Museum collection, two others 

 attached to a nest of leaves bound together. 

 These are probably constructed by another 

 species of Dicrostichus, but they are much larger 

 and have a different shape. Those figured in 

 the plate herewith are delineated at their actual 

 size. The ova-sac figured in the text is five 

 inches long and three inches in circumference 

 at its widest girth (Fig. 15). 



The nest and cocoons (two) of, D. furcatus 

 described above were collected by Mr. W. 

 Bullock at Parkville, near Scone, and pre- 

 sented by him to the Trustees of the Australian Museum. 

 Besides this we have in our collection a nest made by the same 

 species to which four egg-bags are attached. The latter was 

 collected at Sydney by Mr. E. D. Lee, and by him presented to 

 the Trustees. The large one is merely labelled " New South 

 Wales." 



The group Pol ty ere contains five genera, only one of which, 

 however, occurs in Australia, i.e., Poltys, C. Koch, and its range 

 is "Reg. tropicre cunctse Africre, Asia? et Oceanise." 3 5 Keyserling 

 has described five species from Queensland,' 30 and T have described 

 two others, one from Cooktowu (/'. multituberculatus),*'' and one 

 from Fremantle, W. Australia (/'. salebrosus). 38 Keyserling's 



Fig. 15. Cocoon of 

 Dicroatichus sp. 



Simon — hoc. cit., p. SO."?. 

 3G Keyserling — Die Arach. Auatr., Suppl., 1SS6, pp. 123-133. 

 7 Rainbow— Austr. Mas. Rec, iii., A, 188S, p. S2, pi. xviii., figs. 2. 2a, 



■1 b. 



Rainbow— Lot. cit., v., 2, 1904, p. SO, figs. 28, 29. 



