Urquhart. — Oil New S'pecies of Araueae. 135 



Labium brosvnish-lake, apex greenish : oval, rather longer 

 than wide, apex concave. 



Sternum fulvous ; cordate, width between coxa5 of first pair 

 rather exceeds one-half its length. 



Abdomen oviform, basal extremity broadest, convex above ; 

 ground-colour green ; anterior fourth of folium ovate, posterior 

 three-fourths broad-lanceolate, acute-crenate ; margin defined 

 by greenish-black blotches and spots, more or less effaced 

 towards spinners ; lateral margins spotted, normal colora- 

 tion, series of confluent spots form an undulating longitudinal 

 band ; ventral surface light greenish-brown ; fairly clothed 

 with brownish hairs, pattern partially picked out with white, 

 compound-sessile hairs. Vulva brownish -yellow, glossy ; 

 scapus springs from a slight elevation, large, tumid, about 

 one-third wider at base than long, rather narrower and 

 rounded in front, curves towards the rima genitalis ; the 

 somewhat cylindroid lateral margins terminate in subfree, 

 ovate, flatly-convex apices, directed towards each other. 



This pretty little species was not uncommon amongst 

 vegetation growing over fallen trees. 



Mount Egmont, Stratford, A. T. U. 



Habronestes scitula, sjd. nov. Plate XXI., fig. 5. 



Femina. — Ceph.-th., long, 1-9 ; wide, 1-2. Abd., long, 2-2 ; 

 wide, 1-5. Legs, 4, 1-2-3 ^ 5-5, 4-9 mm. 



Cephalothorax brownish-yellow, dorsal aspect of cephalic 

 region coffee-brown, displays a narrow dark medial streak ; 

 dorsal band streaked mahogany-brown, broad, extends from 

 lateral eyes to base of thorax, intersected by a tolerably wide 

 line of the normal ground-colour, which bifurcates forwards 

 from limit of caput ; marginal zone dark-brown, narrow ; 

 cephalic area clothed with few whitish hairs, chiefly on the 

 lighter parts ; ovate, lateral compression at caput slight ; pars 

 cephalica moderately convex, sides abrupt, roundly truncated ; 

 clypeus squarely truncated, directed outwards, height nearly 

 equal to diameter of a lateral eye ; thoracic part slopes some- 

 what abruptly from summit, posterior incline scarcely steeper 

 than lateral ; slight longitudinal reddish groove on crown of 

 thorax ; striae well defined ; profile-contour rises at an angle 

 of 60° from stalk, slopes moderately across occiput, eye-region 

 rounded. 



Posterior centre eyes and laterals large, of about equal 

 size, nearly equidistant, enclose a subcircular space, percep- 

 tibly wider than long ; anterior centrals very small, separated 

 from each other by nearly an eye's breadth, somewhat less 

 than that interval from side-eyes of same row, wloich are 

 divided by a space exceeding their diameter ; line drawn 

 across fore-margin of anterior centrals intersects fore-laterals. 



