64 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ML'SEI'M. 



femoral and tibial joints each fuscous at apex. Relative leng'ths: 

 1, -i, 2, 8. I'dlj^ii. — Moderately long, tapei-ino-, yellow, similar 

 in coloui" and armature to legs. FkL-p^. — Yellow, tapering, 

 arched, pilose, weak ; f'diys short and weak. Maxillce and 

 Lahinvi. — Yellow; normal. Sterninn. — Shield-shaped, termi- 

 nating obtusely between fourth pair of coxae, arched, pilose, 

 yellow, lateral margins narrowly fuscous. Abdomeit. — Ovate, 

 overhanging base of cephalothox'ax, arched, pilose ; superior 

 surface pale-yellow, clouded with fuscous, and ornamented 

 with a broad, median, elongate, somewhat leaf-like design, 

 which latter extends from anterior to posterior extremity ; it 

 is broader towards the middle, and vafies in parts in intensity 

 of colour ; sides yellow, clouded with fuscous ; inferior surface 

 yellow, with a broad, median fuscous band, iri'egular in out- 

 line, and broadest at the middle. Epigiiman. — Two lai'ge, 

 somewhat rounded discs placed closely together, and aboye 

 each of which there is a dai'k, circular patch (Fig. 53). 



Hdh. — Gordonvale, jungle, June, 1914. 



Qenus Latrodectus, TFa/c/i. 



Latrodecti's hasseltii, Tlior. 



Lntrodecfus hasseUii, Thoi'., Oefv. Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Forh., 

 1870, p. 869 ; L. Koch, Die Arach. Ausrr., i., 1872, p. 

 276, pi. xxiii., figs. 2, 8, 3rt. 



Latrodectus scelio., L. Koch, Die Aiach. Austr., i., 1872, p. 

 279, pi. xxiii., fig. 4. 



7fa6.— Gordonvale, January 23, 1913, May 24, 1912, Nov- 

 ember, 1911 ; Roma, October 5, 1914. 



