STtTPIKS I\ AUSTKAt.IAN AlUNKID.t: KAINHOVV. 2<^)7 



Mii.iilhr. — C^)n{'ol()r(His with cfpliti lot lioisix, (livcr'^'eiit, ciirv- 

 iii<j found lip at base, ciotlit'd vvitli loii^ coarse liaiis, closely 

 studded at base with slioit, tt)othlike spines ; inner ang'les 

 fringed with red hairs. 



Jjiiln'inii. — Concolorons also, rather longer than broad, a])ex 

 hollowed, sides slightly curved, base rounded ; surface closely 

 studded with short, toothlike spines, apex fringed with long 

 bristles ; there are also a few long bi'istles at the sides and 

 base. 



Stern Hill. — Shield-shaped, arched, yellow-brown, widest at a 

 point between second and third pairs of coxa ; anterior angle 

 hollowed to receive base of labium, a number of long, black 

 bristles distributed over the surface; xlijilln, six; first and 

 seccmd pairs small, marginal ; third pair much the largest, 

 elliptical in shape, and sub-marginal. 



AJ'i^'iiiif'ii. — Obovate, slightly overhanging base of cejdialo- 

 thorax, hair}' ; superioj- surface and sides dark chocolate- 

 brown ; ventral surface clotlied with long hairs, and of a light 

 yellowish colour. 



Spiiiiieretn. — Yellow, hairy ; superior mammillae one-half 

 length of cephalothorax, tapering, third joint longest, second 

 shortest ; inferior manimillse very short, cylindrical, equal in 

 leiigtli to second joint of superior spinnerets, and separated 

 from each other by a space equal to once their own individual 

 transverse diameter. 



Hah. — Jamieson Valley, Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, 

 New South Wales. 



SUPPLEMENT 



Snh-famihj ACTINOPIDINAE. 



Geinis Missulena, Wnlclr. 



During the passage of the present paper through the press, 

 Mr. H. H. Burton Bradley, Crown Trustee, and President of 

 the Board of Trustees of the Australian Museum, presented 

 to this institution an interesting specimen of the genus 

 Missvleini, Walck., and this proves to be a decided novelty, and 



