STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ARANEID^— No. 6. 



T 1 1 E TEHHKTl'JLARI^. 



By W. J. Rainbow, E.E.S., Entomologist. 



Tlie principal work dealing with Australian Terretelariee is 

 that published by Mr. H. R. Hogg, M.A., in 19011 under the 

 title of " On Austi-alian and New Zealand Spiders of tlie 

 Sub-order Mygaloniorjjha?," and the supjilement thereto in 

 the following yeai', " On Some Additions to the Australian 

 Spiders of the Sub-ordei Mygalomoi-plipe."- These two papers, 

 although some additional species have been described in the 

 interval — chiefly by M. E. Simon — foi-m an excellent basis for 

 the student. 



Usually, whenever specimens or collections of Araneidee are 

 forwarded by amateur collectors to a Museum, they are found 

 to consist almost wholly of arborial forms. Now and again a 

 Mvgalomorphid is included, but it is the exception and not the 

 rule. Among collectors who have couti-ibuted Ti-ap-door 

 Spiders to our cabinets, from time to time, are Dr. Thos. 

 Banci'oft, of Eidsvold, Queensland ; Mr. A. A. Girault, of 

 Nelson, North Queensland, and Mr. S. J. U. Moi-eau, of Sydney. 

 The present paper contains descriptions of species collected 

 by each of these gentlemen, in addition to other material 

 accumulated from time to time. When in Adelaide on official 

 business a short time ago. my friend Dr. R. Pulleine kindly 

 took me to spots on the Mt. Lofty Ranges, where certain 

 Avicularidee occur, and to him I am indebted for the 

 opportunity of collecting with ease and facility, spiders and 

 nests for the Museum collection. From Eidsvold per favour 

 of Dr. Bancroft, examples of nests, together with their archi- 

 tects, have also reached this Museum. 



The measurements given of the cephalothorax of the differ- 

 ent species in the following pages are from clypeus to postei'ior 

 angle, and so do not include the falces. 



1 Hogg— Proc. Zool. Soc, 1901, pp. 218-279. 

 - Hogg— Loc. cit., 1902, pp. 121-142. 



