158 Transactions. — Zuology. 



front; lateral margins flecked and figured with slate-colour; 

 ventral region occupied by an olive-green shield, yellow trans- 

 verse streak above. 



Single specimen, contained in Mr. H. Suter's collection from 

 Hastwell, Forty-mile Bush. 



Epeira acincta, sp. nov. 



Femina. — Ceph.-th., lone, 4 ; broad, 3-3; facial index, 1-7. 

 Abd., long, 6-4 : broad, 5-3. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 =- 15, 14, 12, 

 9 mm. 



Cephalothoraj; brownish-orange, very lightly suffused with 

 olive-green ; hairs sparse, pale orange-yellow ; slightly shorter 

 than patella ■-(- tibia of first leg ; cephalic part moderately 

 convex, sides abrupt, eye-prominence rather low ; lateral index 

 ■equals space between fore-lateral eyes ; clypeus inclined 

 forwards, depth scarcely equals diameter of a fore-central eye ; 

 pars thoracica moderately convex, sides rounded ; fovea some- 

 what oval, normal grooves rather faint ; contour of profile rises 

 with slight curve at an angle of nearly 40° from peduncle, 

 moderately inclined forwards, dips rather abruptly across 

 ocular prominence. 



Eyes on dark rings ; posterior row slightly recurved, liind- 

 margin of centrals in line with fore-margin of laterals of same 

 row ; median pair visibly larger than fore-centrals, interval 

 between them slightly exceeds an eye's breadth, less than their 

 space and one-half from laterals ; anterior row more distinctly 

 recurved, centrals rather more distant from each other — an 

 eye's diameter and a half — than they are from posterior cen- 

 trals, perceptibly more than their space from side-eyes ; 

 laterals about one-third smaller than anterior centrals, posited 

 obliquely on low tubercles, rather more than their radius 

 apart. 



Falccs shade lighter than cej)halothorax ; conical, vertical, 

 somewhat gibbous at base in front ; one-fourth shorter than 

 radial -f digital joints of palpus, scarcely equal to femur of 

 second leg in stoutness. 



. Maxillce brown-yellow, base suffused with light-brown ; 

 nearly as wide as long, dilated forwards, obliquely truncated, 

 inclined over labium, base of latter organ chocolate-brown, 

 apex pale greenish-yellow ; oval, length nearly equals breadth. 



Sternum dark chocolate-brown, yellow, sublanceolato cen- 

 tral mark ; cordate, eminences opposite coxal joints. 



Legs and cephalothorax concolorous ; thighs of first pair 

 lightly suffused with lake on second half ; patellse + tibiae tinge 

 of green ; faint indications of greenish annuli on metatarsi + 

 tarsi; femora of third legs visibly marked with two olive-green 

 rings ; patellar joints of hind-pairs gi'eenish ; faint annulations 



