STUDIES IN AL-STHAUAN AKANF.ID.I-— RAINBOW. 213 



Sfenunn -Concolorous also, ,noderat.ely arched narrowest in 

 frcnrai ical anc,le truncated; posterior extremity broadest nea 

 o4 of Hrd p;ir of legs, and ternnnatin, in an obtuse point 

 between the cox« of the fourth pair. S.j.lh' normal. 



AMnnien—Ov^ie, overhanging base of cephalothorax,strong- 

 ly arched, hairy, yellow-brown. 



Spiunerets.-S^ovt, stout, not extending beyond posterkrr 

 extremity of abdomen. The superior pair are separated f om 

 each other by a space equal to once their individual diameter ; 



hey a three-jointed; tlie first joint is the stoutest, and is 

 equal in length to the second and third combined ; third joint 



oTewhat longer than the second, conical and rounded, nferior 

 spinners exceedingly short, and separated from each othei bj 

 a space equal to once their individual diameter. 



^rt^,._Willoughby, North Sydney. 



Arbanitis longipes, L. Koch. ^ 



(Figs. 26-27.) 



In 1874 Dr. Ludwig Koch proposed, for the reception of a 

 Queensland spider the generic and specific names ^^ /;^^;';'^'^ 

 it^nipes, ..hich species he also figuredi^. From Dr. Thomas 

 L Bancroft, of Eidsvold, Queensland, the Museum has received 

 from time to time, miscellaneous collections of "f ^^f /^f ^^j-^ 

 specimens and amongst these males and females of what 1 take 

 to be A. longipes. Up to the present the male only has 

 been described, and in comparing Dr. Bancroft's material with 

 Koch's description and figure, I find that both agree save _ in 

 respect of certain details, the chief and most important being 

 the omission of any indication or suggestion by Koch of the 

 presence of tibial apophyses or spurs on leg i. I- ^''^ -J^^^;^^ 

 before me from Eidsvold and the Lpper Burnett Riyei , the 

 feature here referred to is very distinct and it certainly seems 

 remarkable that the distinguished author who founded the 



15 Koch.-Die Aracli. des Austr., i., 1874. pp. 472 and 491.. pi. xxxvi., 

 fio-s. 3, 3a, 36, 3c. 



