172 Tratisaclions. — Zoology. 



Sterimm cliocolate-browii, median stripe greenish-yellow, 

 bisected by an interrupted yellow streak ; cordate ; eminences 

 in front of coxal joints. 



Legs yellowish, green tinge ; faint reddish-brown central 

 and apical annulations on tibiae + metatarsi ; indication of 

 distal rings on femora ; legs tolerably strong ; hairs yellowish, 

 somewhat sparse ; spines black, tolerably strong and numerous, 

 somewhat irregular. 



Pal2n greenish-yellow ; hairs light ; black bristle-like 

 spines. 



Abdomen, ovate, depressedly convex ; broad-conical hump 

 projects over base of cephalothorax ; very sparingly clothed 

 with short hairs, few coarse black ; bright pea-green, deepen- 

 ing in tone on lateral margins ; dorsal mark yellowish ; four 

 dark impressed spots form a trapezoid, narrowest in front ; 

 interval between hind-pair and spinners occupied by a wide 

 band of nearly uniform width, somewhat enlarged and rounded 

 forwards ; bordered by a narrow greenish-brown line ; an 

 arcuate line of similar colour limits the first quarter ; median 

 streak lighter shade, bifurcates at cross-line, enclosing a nar- 

 row streak to anus. Ventral shield greenish-brown, displays 

 four yellow spots; elongate. Corpus vulva greenish-yellow; 

 represents a large, transversely-wrinkled, subtriangular, curved 

 scapus, rather wider at base than long ; lateral margins not 

 wrinkled, rather broad, beaded, project upwards and outwards ; 

 the dark tapering extremities are' sharply bent backwards to 

 base of stylus ; latter organ stout, of uniform breadth, some- 

 what dej)ressed or grooved above, scarcely one-half length of 

 scapus vulva, projects nearly one-third its own length beyond 

 lateral wings of scapus. 



Single specimen, forest near Stratford, A. T. U. 



Sub-Fam. TETRAGNATHIN^. 

 Gen. Teteagnatha, Latr. 

 Tetragnatha arborea, sp. nov. Plate XXI., fig. 9. 



Mas. — Ceph.-th., long, 4; broad, 3; facial index, 1-6. Abd., 

 long, 5 ; broad, 3-4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 32, 20, 14-5, 12 mm. 



Cephalothorax pale brownish-yellow, red-mahogany colour- 

 ing on ocular area shades off into a large lanceolate figure, 

 marbled with brown ; base of figure is somewhat sharply and 

 roundly dilated, tapers moderately, compressed apex slopes 

 into thoracic indentation ; lateral margins of caput clouded 

 with reddish-brown ; hairs fine, sparse ; pars cephalica some- 

 what flatly convex, roundly truncated, lateral index equals 

 space of hind-row of eyes ; pars thoracica convex, prominent 

 above tapering extremity of caput, somewhat depressed behind, 

 sides well rounded ; fovea broad-oval, deep ; radial striae well 



