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Cei)hiduthorax. — Pale-yellow, ovate, smooth, shining, and 

 having a thin dark line running from near the eyes almost to 

 posterior angle. Pars cephalica raised, arched, segmental 

 groove faintly distinct ; ocahir area broader than long ; chjpcus 

 narrow, moderately deep. Pars thoracica arched ; median 

 fovea indistinct ; marginal hand narrow. Eyes. — Normal. 

 Legs. — Long, tapering, concolorous with cephalothorax, mod- 

 ei'ately clothed with short and very fine hairs and armed with 

 short, fine spines. Relative lengths : 1, 4, 2, 3. Palpi. — 

 Short, concolorous with legs, and similar to them in clothing 

 and armature; genital halb reddish-yellow, large, somewhat 

 pear-shaped and complicated in structure. Falces. — Concolor- 

 ous with cephalothorax, short, arched, weak, tapering, smooth, 

 fangs short, weak, reddish. Maxillce and Lahium. — Concolor- 

 ous with cephalothorax; normal. Sternum. — Concolorous with 

 foregoing, arched, smooth, shield-shaped, and terminating 

 obtusely between fourth pair of coxfe. Ahdomen. — Ovate, 

 arched, very slightly overhanging base of cephalothorax, pale- 

 yellow ; on the superior surface there are four black, transverse 

 bars, the first of which is entire, and the others broken ; near 

 posterior extremity theie are four long black spines (one of 

 the inner ones missing in the type) at the sides and below the 

 spines there are several small but distinct black markings ; 

 sides and inferior surface pale-yellow. 



Hidi. — Gordonvale, jungle, June, 1914. 



ThERIDION FnSCODECOKATDM, Sp. nOV. 



(Plate xvi., figs. 52 and 53.) 



$ Cephalothorax, 1 mm. long, 0.7 mm. broad; abdomen, 

 1.5 mm. long, 1.1 mm. broad (Fig. 52). 



Cephalothorax. — Ovate, smooth, yellow, with a broad, median, 

 longitudinal fuscous band. Pars cephalica raised, stronp-lv 

 arched, segmental groove distinct; ocular area broader than 

 long ; clijpeus nan-ow, moderately deep, fringed with fine 

 hairs. Pars thoracica broad, arched, radial grooves and median 



fovea distinct ; marginal hand narrow, pale-yellow. Eyes. 



Normal. Legs. — Long, tapering, yellow, clothed with silky 

 pubescence, and armed with short, fine spines ; first and second 



