198 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Ma.viUre. — Long, reddish-brown, powerful, arched, divergent, 

 the heel rounded, very hair}', inner angles fringed with long 

 golden and reddish hairs. 



Labium. — Short, broader than long, arched, red, apex 

 slightly pi'ocurved. Surface hairy, submerged beneath bases 

 of maxillae. 



Sternuiii. — Pyi'iform, broadest at posterior extremity, con- 

 colorous with maxillte, arched, surface uneven, densely hairy, 

 sigilla six, submarginal. 



Ahilomen. — Ovate, slightly overhanging base of cephalo- 

 thorax, arched, pubescent, superior surface 3-ellow-brown, 

 ornamented with a broad, dark, tapering band, commencing 

 at autevioi' extremity, and running for about two-thirds the 

 length ; within the band, towards anterior extremity there is 

 a small light-coloured patch ; inferior surface yellow-brown, 

 pubescent; the chitinous plate above the rima epigasteris 

 dark-bi'own at the middle, sides yellow-brown, the surface 

 hairy ; on each side of the medium dark-brown patch there is 

 a large sigilla, while the overhanging lip is orange-red. 



Spinnerets. — Short, stout, hairy; inferior mammillae short, 

 separated at the base by a space equal to not more than once 

 their transverse diameter, apices directed inwards and touch- 

 ing ; superior mammillfe about twice the length of the in- 

 ferior, three-jointed ; first joint about one-and-a-half times the 

 length of tlie second ; third joint minute, rounded. 



(Jhx. — T have received the following note from Mr. W. B. 

 Alexander, B.A., of the Western Australian Museum, from 

 whom the spider described above was also received : — 



" The tube is jn-aciticall}- straight and descends to a depth 

 of nine inches below the ground ; its diameter is about one inch, 

 and looks much too narrow to house such a lai'ge spider with 

 any comfort; « here is no special enlargement at the bottom. 

 The whole is lined with pure white silk. 



"The door is thin, of the iruffr typo, but a few twigs have 

 l)een incorpoi-ated in its upper suii'ace round the edges, and 

 though the inside was very white, the upper surface is the 

 same colour as the suri'ounding soil. The top of thetui)e pro- 

 jects about a quarter of an inch above the level of the ground, 

 and a sei'ies of twigs are incoi'porated in this portion by their 



