102 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



of 2, 4, 2 ; median eyes large, seated at the summit of a 

 tubercle, and disposed in the form of a trapezium ; lateral 

 eyes arranged in pairs, small and contiguous. />'';/>'• — Short, 

 strong, yellow with dark brown annulations, clothed with 

 long hairs, and armed with long, tine spines ; relative lengths: 

 1, 2, 4, 3. Palpi. — Short, strong, similar in colour and arma- 

 ture to legs. Falces. — Dark brown, shining, strong, arched, 

 tapering. Ma.eilhe. — Normal, dark- brown, apices and inner 

 angles creamy-white. Lahinni.- — Short, broad, arched, dark 

 brown, apex creamy-white. Sternain. — Shield-shaped, arched, 

 outer angles dark brown ; the central portion describes a broad, 

 seri'ated, and foliated design of creamy-white. Ahdnnien. — 

 Broadly ovate, strongly arched, pubescent, and boldly pro- 

 jecting over base of cephalothorax ; superior surface greyish- 

 brown, with a broken, snowy-white design in front, and a 

 broad foliated design running down the middle, the anterior 

 and lateral angles of which are snowy-white ; immediately 

 at rear of anterior design there are two very small but distinct 

 dark brown spots, which latter are widely removed from each 

 other ; within the leaf-like design there are four distinct de- 

 pressions or pits, of whicli the anterior pair are the lai'gest 

 and widest apart ; at anterior extremity there is a bi'oad, un- 

 even dark brown (nearly black) transverse bar, which latter 

 is strong!}' indented at the centre ; sides concolorous with 

 superior surface, but relieved by uneven dark brown lateral 

 stripes (which latter are directed posteriori}^), and by small 

 groups of mici'oscopic snowy-white spots ; inferior surface 

 dark brown with six snowy-white patches, the largest of 

 which are the median pair, and the smallest the posterior. 

 Epiijynnvi. — A short, broad, somewhat pear-shaped, yellow 

 process (PI. xxii., fig. 17). 



H(d). — Towiisville, forest, January 3, 1913. 

 Araneus cyrtarachnoides. Keys. 



Epeint cyrlarnclnioidea. Keys., Die Arach. des. Austr., Snppl., 

 1887, p. 181, pi. XV., figs. 8, 8(r, 9, 9a. 



Ohs. — Most of the examples of this species were immature, 

 and were taken by sweeping. 



Hah. — Gordonvale, Af)ril 18, 1912 (immature) ; May 5, 

 1913, open forest; August 14, 1912; August 31, 1912, $ and 

 $ from orbicular web in forest; August 31, 1912; forest, 

 September 5, 1912. 



