Urquhart. — On New Species of Araneae. 137 



ocular eminence rather prominent ; clypens visibly iuclincl 

 forwards, height exceeds one-half depth of eye-area ; pars 

 thoracica convex, fovea oval, small ; normal grooves mode- 

 rately prominent ; contour of profile represents a strong 

 curve. 



Eyes rather large ; fore-pair dark ; posterior row slightly 

 procurved ; centrals perceptibly smaller than laterals, sepa- 

 rated from each other by a space scarcely equalling an eye's 

 breadth, about twice that distance from side-eyes and fore- 

 centrals, latter interval somewhat the shortest ; anterior row 

 recurved, median pair about one- third smaller than hin^d-pair, 

 one-fourth their diameter from each other, separated from side- 

 eyes by two-thirds their space ; laterals posited obliquely on 

 a stony tubercular eminence, contiguous. 



Falces yellowish mahogany-colour ; transversel)' rugulose ; 

 broad, somewhat flat, gibbous at base in front, vertical, equal 

 digital joint of palpus in length ; breadth more than one-half 

 length, second half rounded on inner side, directed somewhat 

 outwards, 4 stout teeth in outer row. 



Mcuilke fulvous ; some^Yhat linear, fore-half broadest and 

 sharply bent over lip. 



Labium, base fuscous, margins brownish ; wdder than long, 

 tumid and somewhat truncated, transverse groove. 



Sternum chocolate-brown ; broad-cordate, studded with 

 papilla}. 



Legs browni;>h-yellow, three faint aunuli on femora ; pa- 

 tellas brown ; tibial joints have central and apical rings, nar- 

 rower and more pronounced on hind-pairs ; long, slender : 

 armature dark hairs, few slender erect bristles. 



Palpi straw"-colour, except digital joints, which have a 

 mahogany shade ; slender, pars digitalis equals cubital -f- radial 

 joints in length ; few long hairs and fine bristles. 



Abdomen, fore-half dark-brown, passing into a pale shade 

 on posterior half and lateral margins, spotted with large 

 stone-coloured flecks ; elongate-ovate, profile somewhat trian- 

 gular ; distance from the lower angle — from which the rather 

 long spinners project — to the rounded posterior extremity is 

 slightly shorter tha.n dorsal line. Corpus vulvce yellowish ; 

 represents a transverse oval area, occupied by largo ovate 

 foveas, intersected by a rather broad septum ; a reddish-brown 

 bead-like pimple projects a,bove base of septum. 



Single specimen captured in the forest near Stratford, 

 A. T. U. 



Gen. LiNTPHiA, Latr. 



Linyphia sennio, sp. nov. Plate XXI., figs. 15, IG. 



3/a.s.— Ceph.-th., long, 21; broad, 1-8. Abd., long, 2-2 ; 

 broad, 2. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 13, 10, 7, 5-5 mm. 



