106 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Hab. — Goi'donvale, August 22, 1912, taken fioin web in 

 front of window of dwelling. 



Araxeus dianipuus,^ sp. llOV. 



(Plate xxii., figs. 22, 23, 2J., 25.) 



(J Cephalothorax, 1 mm. long, 0.7 mm. broad ; abdomen, 

 1.1 mm. long, 0.8 mm. broad (PI. xxii., fig. 22). 



Cephalotlionix. — Obovate, yellow, smootli, shining. I'ar^ 

 cephalica arched, obtuse in front, thoracic groove distinct; 

 ocular area broader than long ; clypeus short, narrow. Pars 

 thoracica strongly arched, radial grooves distinct; median fovea 

 distinct, rather dark ; iiKinjiiia] band narrow. Eijes. — Black, 

 median four largest, and forming a trapezium ; lateral eyes 

 minute, contiguous. Leijs. — Concolorous with cephalothorax, 

 long, pilose, armed with short, tine, weak spines ; relative 

 lengths : 1, 2, -i, 3. Falpi. — Short, concolorous with legs, 

 genital bulb complicated (PI. xxii., fig. 23). Falces Con- 

 colorous with cephalothorax, weak, coniform. Ma.rilhp and 

 Labium . — Normal, creamy-white. Stenittni. — Shield-shaped, 

 pale yellow, arched. Abdomen,. — Ovate, overhanging base of 

 cephalothorax, strongly arched, pale yellowish-grey, orna- 

 mented with a small, dark medium patch in front; from rear 

 of this patch a faintl}'^ discernable thread-like line runs down 

 the middle, and tei'niinates in froiit of spinnei'ets ; at a little 

 below the anterior median patch there is a faint transverse 

 line in eschelon ; below this again, there are four short, broad, 

 and distinct transverse bars, the first of these being the long- 

 est, and the fourth — whicli is seated in fi-ont of spinnerets — 

 the shortest; sides, pale yellowish-grey ; inferior surface con- 

 colorous, but having a rather dai-ker longitudinal band running 

 down the middle from tlie rima epijanteris towards spinnerets. 



$ Cephalothorax, 1.1 mm. long, 0.9 mm. broad ; abdomen, 

 1.8 mm. long, 1.4 mm. broad (PI. xxii., fig. 24<). 



M 8tai't</)OS =^ lU'Wked with snow-white; in reference to abdominal 

 ornameutation of ? 



