STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN ARANEID/F, — RAINHOW. 



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FttlccK. — Coiioolorous with cephalothorax; por- 

 rected; sliiiiiiig- ; clothed with hairs and bristles, 

 and furnislied with rastelluni ; inner margin of 

 falx-sheaih fringed with red hairs ; inner ridge of 

 falx armed with six moderately large teeth, of 

 which the three nearest the fang are the closest 

 togetlier; onter margin has also six teeth, but 

 they are much smaller and (M)vera smaller area ; 

 intermediate between these two rows there ai'e 

 two other teeth, and these are smaller still (fig. 

 12) ; fang shining, reddish-bi'own, well curv^ed. 



Fifi. 12. — A. 



berlaiidi, RA\nh. 



Scheme of 



dentition. 



Ma.cilhi\ — Not strong, yellow, divergent, arched, hairy, inner 

 angles fringed with red hairs. 



Labi II III. — Concolorous, some what submerged, ai'ched, broader 

 than long, hairy, devt)id of spines. 



SfeniHiii. — Pale yellow, p^'riform, narrowest in front, broadest 

 at a ]ioint between the second and third coxfe, slightly arched, 

 surface rather thickly beset with black bristles ; posterior 

 sicjiUn moderately laig-e, distinct, bi-ight ^^ellow, and widely 

 I'emoved from maro-in. 



Abihiiiieii. — Obovate, strongly arched, 

 slightly overhanging base of cephalothorax, 

 yellow-brown, upper surface ornamented 

 with four large and distinct sub-lateral 

 yellow spots, arranged in pairs ; the first 

 pair are seated at about one-third the 

 length of the abdomen fi-om the front, and 

 the second pair, which are by far the 

 larger, are placed slightly beyond tlie 

 middle; immediately below the latter there 

 are two moderately large, dark brown spots ; 

 the upper surface is pubescent, and fur- 

 nished rather closely with black bristles or 

 spines ; sides concolorous, haii'y ; inferior 

 surface yellow, hairy (fig. 13). 



Fig. l[i.—A. dm /a/ii/i, 

 Rainb-, Abdomen. 



Spinnerets. — Short ; superior mammillae stout, pale yellow ; 

 first joint much longer than the second and third combined ; 

 third joint much the smallest and dome-shaped ; inferioi' 



