AltACHN'Il'A Fi;o\l NdlM'HEKN QUEKNSLANH — RAINHOW. 47 



yellow apices ; metatarsus dark-brown at base and apex, with 

 a broad, dusky yellow band in betAveen ; tarsus yellow. 

 Relative lengtlis : 4, 1, 2, 3. Palpi. — Long, yellow, tapering, 

 similar in colour and armature to legs. Falces. — Concolorous 

 with cephalotliorax, slightly projecting, strongly arched, hairy. 

 Maxillce. — Strong, broad, arched, dark-brown, apices and inner 

 angles yellow ; surface furnished with a few black bristles, 

 inner angles fringed with fine, pale hairs. Labium. — Long, 

 broad, rounded at apex, which latter is fringed with long, 

 black hairs, arched, dark-brown, apex yellow. Sternum. — 

 Shield-shaped, reddish-brown, arched, surface moderately 

 clothed with fine, hoary hairs. Ahdoiucii. — Ovate, not over- 

 hanging base of cephalothorax, arched ; superior surface 

 yellow-brown, spotted with pale yelloAv, moderately hairy ; 

 inferior surface reddish-brown in front of rima epigasteris, and 

 below that yellowish-grey. Epigijnuin. — Large, arched, 

 bilobed, and having two deep, circular lateral pits (Fig. 20). 



Hah. — Gordonvale, August 30, 1912. A very distinct 

 species, and remarkable from the fact that it is in no way 

 ornamented. 



Genus Het^rica,'' gen. nov. 



(Plate xiv., fig. 21, and Plate xv., fig. 22). 



For the reception of the next species herein described, 1 

 propose a new genus — Hefcerica. This spider conforms closely 

 to those we have just been studying, the Storena, in the form 

 of the cephalothorax, the two rows of eyes, the presence of 

 only one tooth on the lower ridge of the falx, and in the 

 possession of three tarsal claws, but differs therefrom princi- 

 pally in the number of spinnerets. In Storena there are six, 

 and of these the fore spinnerets are long, and the hind ones 

 short ; Hetcerica, on the other hand is only provided with four ; 

 the front pair are very short — almost aborted, while the hind 

 pair are long. Indeed, the fore pair have to be carefullv 

 sought for, as they are so diminutive, and so obscured by long 

 abdominal hairs, that they are not easily seen. The species 

 for which I propose the specific name aresca is an exceedingly 

 beautiful one. The description of the genus is as follows : — 



' era/ptKos = comrade-like. 



