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inoderately long bristle behind; radial joint linear, fully 

 equals the greater length of former article ; laminse bulbi 

 obovate, directed towards each other ; hairs sparse ; margin 

 at base, outer side, turned up, forming an oval, deep depres- 

 sion above; bulbus genitalis dark amber-colour, well-developed, 

 convoluted ; convolutions terminate in two large well-defined 

 apophyses directed dowjiwards, of about equal length ; inner 

 apophysis lake-colour, dark margins, broad, rounded, outer 

 face concave, projects laterally two small processes ; back- 

 ward-directed process black, horn-like; fore-process yellowish, 

 curved forwards and upwards, apex tumid ; outer apophysis 

 spiral (single curve), base tumid, free end stout, acute, 

 blackish. 



Abdomen elongate - oviform ; creamy - brown, somewhat 

 mottled with brown-black ; mottling composed of small elongate 

 patches interspersed amongst free and confluent spots ; dorsal 

 region somewhat free from marks ; ventral surface light- 

 brown ; spinners yellowish. 



Single example, Stratford, A. T. U. 



Fam. EPEIRID^. 



Gen. Epkira, Walck. 



Epeira atri-apiata, sp. nov. 



Mas. — Ceph. -th., long, 4-3 ; wide, 3o. Abd.,long, 5; wide, 

 3-0. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 15-o, 14, 10, 8 mm. 



Cephalotliorax rich mahogany-brown ; glabrous, except few 

 white hairs about clypeus ; closely studded with small papillae ; 

 sharply compressed forwards ; pars cephalica depressed, cen- 

 tral indentation, ocular elevation projects prominently over 

 falces ; depth of clypeus rather more than half facial space ; 

 pars thoracica strongly convex, median indentation oval, large, 

 deep, discloses a cruciate groove within ; radial and caput striae 

 more or less obliterated ; contour of profile represents a low 

 arch rising at eye-prominence. 



Fore- and hind-row^ of eyes recurved ; posterior median 

 pair, on dark patches, about one-third smaller than anterior 

 centrals, divided by an interval equalling tv>'ice their own dia- 

 meter ; fore-median pair separated from each other by an 

 eye's breadth and a quarter, and from hind-centrals by fully 

 their diameter ; laterals one-third smaller than posterior me- 

 dian pair, posited obliquely on a dark common tubercle. 



Falces fulvous, suffused with olive-brown, moderately stout 

 and long, second half curved upwards and outwards. 



Maxilhe rather longer than broad, roundly pointed, in- 

 clined towards labimn, latter perceptibly wider than long, 



