IttS Travyaciions. — Zoology. 



index equals liall facial ; ch/jicus projecting, indentation below 

 eyes moderate, in height equal to two-thirds depth of ocular 

 area ; pars thoracica oval, convex ; fovea oval, radial and caput 

 stria) fairly well defined ; profile-line somewhat level to pos- 

 terior inclination, latter a,bout 45". 



Eyes of tolerable and nearly equal size, on black spots; 

 posterior row moderately procurved, median pair rather closer 

 to each other — a space visibly exceeding an eye's breadth — than 

 they are to laterals ; anterior row recurved, curvature per- 

 ceptibly stronger than posterior line ; centrals dark, smaller 

 than hind-pair, rather more distant from one another than 

 they are from hind-centrals, an interval slightly exceeding 

 their breadth ; less than their diameter from side-eyes; hind- 

 lateral eyes about equal to anterior centrals in size, fore-eyes 

 smaller, posited obliquely on a common, lake-brown, tubercu- 

 lar eminence, contiguous. 



Legs fulvous ; hairs light, sparse ; few slender black bristles ; 

 moderately strong. 



Prt/jj? colour and armature of legs; slender, rather shorter 

 than cephalothorax. 



Falccs shade deeper than cephalothorax ; sublinear, ver- 

 tical ; teeth form two rows on truncated apex, outer row 3 

 teeth, strongest projects from inferior angle of falx, inner com- 

 posed of 5 small teeth. 



Maxilla strong,, spathulate, inclined over lahiuin, which is 

 wider than long, rounded, somewhat flattened at apex, less 

 than one-half length of inaxilhe ; organs light yellowish- 

 brown. 



Sterninu greenish-yello\\ , metallic reflections; lozenge- 

 shape, breadth equal to about three-fourths its length. 



Abdomen oviform, convex; ground-colour stone-brown 

 (possibly green tinge in fresh examples), dorsal band rather 

 broad, widens somewhat in centre, composed of numerous con- 

 fluent creamy- white flecks ; median streak vein-like, stained 

 with bright-yellow ; in centre of dorsum are two largo pinkish- 

 lake patches, separated by their own breadth ; inferior half of 

 lateral, margins spotted with creamy-coloured flecks. Vnlva 

 represents three equal-sized, closely-grouped foveae, arranged 

 in triangle ; apical fovea above the rima genitalis represents a 

 brown rimed orifice ; hind-pair little more than brownish, 

 purple-margin.ed circular figures. 



Captured in the forest near Stratford, A. T. U. 



Theridium apiatum, sp. nov. 



Female. — Cepli.-th., long, 2; broad, 1-8. Abd., long, 3-4 ; 

 broad, 2-9. Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 13-2, 9-3, 8, 7-3 mm. 



Cephalothorax deep yellow-brown, median band marbled 

 with chestnut-brown, tinge of lake ; broad, as wide as eye-area 



