78 liECORP? OF THE AFSTHALIAX MrSEFM. 



Famihj AVICULARID^. 



Snh-faiii till AcTIXOPOMN.E. 

 Genus Missnleiia, ^ynh■l■. 



MlSf^DLKNA OCCATORTA, WitJr]:. 



Missidenn orniforin, "Walck., Tab. des Aran., 1805, p. 8, pi. ii., figs. 11-11. 

 1.1., Ins. de,s Apt., 1837, p. 252--. 



0//.>-. — This species has been recorded from many parts of Australia, 

 particularly the Eastern, Southern and Western areas. Alore lecently, 

 however, I have seen examples from the far Nortli, so tliat considering 

 the former land connection of Anstialia with Papua, the above record is 

 not remarkable for so common and widely distributed a species. 



JJah. — Pa[>ua. 



Svl-faniilii Ctexizin^e. 



(leiiits Aibanitis, L. Korh. 



Arhaxitis viLLOsrs, sp. nor. 



(Figs. 1-3.) 



S' Cephalotliorax, 9-5 mm. long, 7"5 mm. broad ; abdomen, 75 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. broad. 



C'pphalothorax. — Obovate, mahogany brown, clothed with golden- 

 vellow hairs. Pias repJntlicn arched, modeiately high, segmental gi-oove 

 broad, deep, sides not compres.sed ; ocnlur aren broader than long, raised, 

 ai'ched, fringed in front ; chjpens yellow, narrow, truncated. Vars tJiorarica 

 broad, arched, radial grooves broad, modeiately dee[) ; thoracic foved deep, 

 straight ; murgiiial h<iii<l broad, fringed with long hairs. Eyes. — Distrib- 

 uted over two roTVS of four each : front row strongly procurved ; rear row 

 procurved in front, recurved behind ; anterior laterals elliptical, poised on 

 black rings, and separated from each otlier by a space equal to that of 

 three times their own individual diameter; rear medians round, as large 

 as their anterior lateral neighbours, separated 



from each other by a space equal to that of /^ o/^ 



one-half their own individual diameter, and C>A^-^ /'-\ xj) 



each again from its lateral neighbour by (^ ) ij 



rather more than that space ; rear lateral ^^ ^\ 



eves lather smaller than the anteriors, from ~r__._//i\ }^-^ 



which they are separated by abotit once their /T'v 



own individual diameter, elliptical, poised pjg , 



obliquelj', and mounted on black rings; reai* 



medians small, elli[)tical, each just touching the ring of its fmter neigh- 

 bour ; they aie also very close to the anterior medians, each being removed 

 therefrom by a space scarcely- equal to that of its own diameter (Fig. 1). 



3 For fidler synonomy of species recorded in .this paper, see my Census of 

 Australian Araneidfe (Rttc A\isi. Mas., ix., 2, 1911, pp. 108-112'), 



