ARAL'llMDA l-l;u.M XURIJ I KUX QUEENSL-iND — RAINBOW. 85 



MeTA ? INSULAKIS, /v ('//>. 



Meta >)is(ilari>-\ Kevh., L. Kocli, Die Aracli. des Aastr., i., 1871, 

 p. 135, j)l. X., tigs. 7, 8. 



(Jlis. — An iuiinaturu exaiiij)le vi what appears to be tlie 

 species quoted above. 



H'lh. — Gordonvale, sAveeping in forest, July -, 1912. 



MkTA ARiiKNTIOPUNCTATA, xp. Hur. 



(PL .xxi., Hg8. 6, 7, 8.) 



(5 Ceplialothoiax, 1.2 mni. long, 1 mm. broad; abdomen, 

 ■J.l mm. long, 0.8 mm. broad (PI. xxi., fig. 6). 



('ephalutlivrax. — Ovate, straw-yellow, smooth. Pars cejj/ialica 

 obtuse in fi'out, arched, thoracic groove distinct; a faintly 

 perceptible, converging, narrow, darkish line runs from rear 

 of each median posterior eye towards the base of the caput, 

 whei'e they unite; ocular area broader than long; clypei's not 

 deep. Bars thoracica broad, strongly arched, lateral grooves 

 faintly indicated; thoracic fovea distinct; margiiial band 

 moderately broad. Eyes. — Normal. Leys. — Concolorous with 

 ceplialothorax, long, tapering, not strong, finely pilose, and 

 armed with weak spines ; relative lengths : 1, 2, 4^, 3. Palpi. — 

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

 and armature ; yenital bulb large, complicated hairy. Falces. — 

 Concolorous with foregoing, tajtering, arched, apices divergent. 

 MaxilUe 'Aiid Labivia. — Concolorous also ; normal. SfcrniDii. — 

 Concolorous with foregoing, shield-shaped, arched. Abdomen. — 

 Elongate, somewhat cylindrical, slighth' overhanging base of 

 cephalothorax. yellow, superior surface and sides ornamented 

 with a numijer of large and small variously shaped silver 

 spots, which latter are by far the most numerous laterally ; at 

 posterior extremity of superior surface, and also on each side 

 of the spinnerets, there is another black spot; a few small, 

 scattered, silvery spots are distributed over tlie ventral 

 surface. 



9 Cephalothorax, 1.5 mm. long, 1.1 mm. broad; abdomen, 

 4.1 mm. long, 1.9 mm. broad (PI. xxi., fig. 7). 



