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corpus ; stylus short, broad, rugose, apex large, well-formed 

 seini-globose cup, with a conspicuous amber-brown beaded 

 rim, latter in line with fore-niargni of discs. 

 Stratford, A.T. U. 



Epeira similaris, sp. nov. 



Femina. — Ceph.-th., long, 4 ; broad, 3-1 ; facial index, 1-5. 

 Abd., long, 7-5 ; broad, 6-5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 14-4, 14, 11, 

 8 mm. 



Ceplialothorax dull raw - sienna, cephalic parts lightly 

 clouded with olive-brown ; hairs sparse, white and silky on 

 thorax, mostly of an orange-yellow on caput ; length equal to 

 tibia of first pair; pars cephalica moderately convex; ocular 

 eminence fairly prominent ; lateral index nearly equals facial ; 

 sides of pars thoracica well-rounded ; indentation moderately 

 deep, caput and radial stria) not strongly defined ; profile-line 

 represents a not very strongly-curved arch ; chjpeus directed 

 inwards, depth equals breadth of a fore-central eye. 



Fore- and hind-row of eyes nearly equally recurved ; an- 

 terior centrals perceptibly smaller than posterior pair, separated 

 from each other by an interval equal to rather more than an 

 eye's breadth, and from hind-pair by a space scarcely equalling 

 the former ; more than two-thirds their space from laterals ; 

 median pair of posterior row visibly more than their diameter 

 apart ; their space and a quarter from side-eyes of same row ; 

 laterals posited obliquely on separate, low, dark, tubercular 

 eminences, perceptibly less than their radius from each other. 



Legs, thighs of two first pairs brownish-yellow, faint indi- 

 cations of annuli ; patellae deeper shade ; tibial, metatarsal, 

 and tarsal joints greenish tinge passing into light - brown, 

 especially towards extremities ; femora of hind-pairs have a 

 deeper hue ; well-defined greenish rings on third pair ; per- 

 ceptible greenish and brownish annulations on their tibial 

 and metatarsal joints; about 16 spines on femora of first pair; 

 9 or 10 on second ; few spines on thighs of third pair ; spines 

 on patellary joints ; spine armature of tibia> and metatarsi 

 somewhat sparse and irregular ; rather sparsely furnished with 

 lightish hairs. 



Falpi and legs concolorous; green annulations on digital 

 joint, which shades off to a brownish colour ; hairs yellowish, 

 bristle-like spines yellowish, base dark. 



Falces light, glossy, yellow-brown ; conical, vertical ; equal 

 pars digitalis of palpus in length, and femoral joint of a second 

 leg in stoutness. 



Maxilke brownish-yellow, clouded with olive-brown ; nearly 

 as broad as long, roundly pointed, moderately inclined over 

 lahiinn, which is olive-brown, greenish-yellow margins ; rather 

 wider than long, roundly pointed. 



