spiders f Torn the Upper Endeavour River. 141 



Nephilengys rainbow!, nov. sp. 



Colour. 



Cephalothorax. — Bright chestnut on cephalic part. Eye space 

 hlack brown. A longitudinal yellow streak from front to rear 

 (»f thoracic part, remainder dark red-hrown with grey hairs. 



MiUidibles mid Maxillce. — Black-brown, fangs of former and 

 edge of latter red-brown. Lip., paler brown. All with upstand- 

 ing dark brown hairs. 



Sternum. — At sides and transversely across the middle black- 

 Ijrown, and upper and lower portions yellowish-grey. 



Coxce. — Yellow transvei'se stripe Ijetween two black ends. 



Abdomen. — Above mottled with dark and light brown patches, 

 tine pale recumbent pale greyish-brown hairs; below greyish- 

 brown mottled with dark brown. A larger dark brown patch in 

 front of spinnerets, which with epigyne are black-brown. Sides 

 (lark brow^n, with three backward curving paler stripes reaching 

 from back to underneath. Very fine recumbent pale brown hair. 



Palpi. — Yellow on femoral joint changing to dark red-brown 

 in tibial and tarsal with upstanding black-brown hairs bristles 

 and spines. 



Legs. — Yellow to red-brown, darker on tarsus and metatarsus 

 and on anterior end of the other joints forming on underside 

 nearly black patches. 



Shape. 



Cephalothorax. — Low on thoracic, raised and convex on cepha- 

 lic part, a deep transverse fovea separating the two. In middle 

 of former a deep transverse oval dimple. The cephalic part set 

 with short thick spines. 



The clypeus recedent, in the centre as wide as front middle 

 eyes. The four middle eyes form a rectangle slightly longer than 

 broad. Front eyes largest, their diameter apart, and 1| dia- 

 meters from front side eyes. The rear middle eyes are smaller 

 two of their diameters apart, and same distance from front pair, 

 three diameters from rear side eyes. The side eyes are smaller 

 than the rear middle, set on an oblique tubercle, and are slightly 

 nearer together than front and rear middle, being 2|- of their 

 own diameters apart. Both rows slightly recurved. 



