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long ; its rather broad beaded margins, which project upwards 

 and outwards, are sharply bent inwards at their extremities ; 

 the confluent beading forms a semicircular wrinkle at base 

 of broad stylus, which rather exceeds the dark-stained angular 

 projections in length ; base of stylus consists of two wrinkles ; 

 mouth of large ascidium-shaped apex invei'sely ovate ; few- 

 coarse hairs. 



Forest near Stratford, .4. T. U. 



Epeira venustula, sp. nov. Plate XXI., tig. 12. 



Femina. — Ceph.-th., long, 2; wide, 1-8. Abd., long, 3-5; 

 wide, 3. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 =^ 8, 6-3, 5-1, 3-6 mm. 



Cephalotliorax burnt-sienna colour, speckled in radiating 

 lines with a deeper hue ; triangular area, including facial 

 space, of a gamboge-yellow, pale metallic reflections, extends 

 to limit of caput ; clathrate ; hairs light-yellow, very sparse ; 

 length equal to patella 4- tibia of a leg of second pair ; pars 

 cephalica convex, lateral index nearly equals facial ; eye-pro- 

 minence moderate ; chji^eus retreating, height scarcely equal 

 to radius of a fore-central eye ; pars thoracica moderately 

 convex, sides well rounded ; fovea suboval, deep ; caput and 

 radial striae fairly defined ; contour of profile rises from thoracic 

 junction at an angle of 40^, arched across cephalic part, dips 

 rather abruptly at ocular area. 



Eyes on dark spots, recurved, first rather the strongest 

 curve ; posterior row divided by an interval rather exceeding 

 their diameter ; scarcely more than their space from laterals ; 

 anterior centrals about an eye's breadth and a half from each 

 other ; their diameter from hind-pair, which they equal in 

 size ; separated from side-eyes by an interval equal to three- 

 fourths their space ; laterals about half size of centrals, 

 posited obliquely, one-third their diameter from each other, 

 on separate moderately strong tubercles. 



Legs brownish creamy-colour ; femoral joints have wide 

 brown — dark-brown on hind-pairs — annuli on fore-half, pass- 

 ing into greenish-yellow at extremities ; patella; suffused with 

 rectdish-brown ; tibiae of first -f second show two free, faint, 

 reddish-brown rings ; tibite of hind-pairs, and metatarsal joints 

 of all, have central and apical annulations : legs somewhat 

 slight ; hairs sparse ; few black sj)ines. 



Palpi yellowish, ring on extremity of radial and fore-half 

 of digital joints red-brown; hairs sparse. 



Falces fuscous, clouded with olive-green ; conical, gibbous 

 in front, vertical, stouter than thigh of a fourth leg, length 

 equal to breadth of anterior row^ of eyes. 



Maxilla light greenish-brown, base chocolate-brown ; 

 about as wide as long, roundly pointed, taper to base, mode- 

 rately inclined towards each other. 



