UiiQUiiAKT. — On Xcic Species of Araneop. 1G3 



of 40°, moderately inclined forwaixls, dips abruptly from liind- 

 row of eyes. 



Eyes on dark rings, subequal ; posterior row visibly re- 

 curved, iiiterval between median pair equal to rather more 

 than an eye's breadth, visibly more than their- space from 

 laterals ; anterior row more distinctly recurved, centrals 

 perceptibly exceed hind-pair in size ; rather further from each 

 other than they are from posterior centrals, a space slightly 

 surpassing an eye's diameter ; laterals rather the smallest of 

 eight, posited obliquely, half their radius apart, on low 

 tubercles. 



Legs yellowish-green, faint amiuli ; hairs pale-yellow, 

 somewhat sj^arse ; spines yellow, dark base ; femoral joints 

 have few short spines on superior surface ; first pair has also 

 a row of 4 on inferior side ; second pair, 2 ; patellae, 3 or 4 ; 

 tibiae of first, 9 ; three hind-pairs more sparsely spined; meta- 

 tarsi, 3 or 4. 



Palpi pale-green ; cubital joint projects a bristle ; fully 

 equal to cephalothorax in length. 



Falces yellowish-green ; conical, moderatelj' gibbous at 

 base in front, fore-end somewhat divergent ; length equals 

 tarsus of a fore-leg, scarcely as stout as femur of second leg. 



Maxilke brown, apices pale-green; length somewhat sur- 

 passes breadth, roundly pointed, ta.per to base ; moderately 

 inclined towards each other. 



Labiuvi colour of maxilla? ; rather wider than long, 

 pointed. 



Sternum greenish ; broad-cordate, eminences opposite coxa?. 



Abdomen broad-oviform, moderately convex above ; hairs 

 sparse ; pale grey-green, closely flecked ; folium imdulating ; 

 deeper green, few red-brown spots ; ventral shield lozenge- 

 shaped ; olive-brown, broad margin of creamy-coloured flecks. 

 Corpus vulvce olive-brown ; stronglj'-wrinkled, transverse, oval 

 eminence ; tumid and longitudinally depressed above the rima 

 genitalis ; scapus green-tinged, bright reddish-amber ; projects 

 from tumid eminence, long, base broad, vermiform, flattened, 

 curves forwards on abdomen for half its length, sharply bent 

 backwards to little beyond posterior limit of corpus ; apex 

 semi-oval, somewhat calceolate. 



Forest, Stratford, A. T. U. 



Epeira galbana, sp. nov. 



Femina. — Ceph.-th., long, 2-2; wide, 2. Abd., long, 4-1; 

 wide, 3-4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 9-4, 8-5, 7-1, 5-5 mm. 



Cephalothorax brownish amber-colour, V-shaped yellowish 

 mark at limit of caput ; hairs whitish, soft, sparse ; oval, 

 moderately compressed forwards ; j)ars cephalica convex, 

 roundly truncated, ocular prominence fairly developed, lateral 



