Ukquhart. — On New Species of Arancir. 187 



Abdomen elongate-ovifonu ; hairs short, very sparse, white 

 and orange-red ; deep stone-colour, closely dappled with a 

 paler tone, and few brown dots ; dorsum displays on basal 

 fourth a conduplicate mark — apices directed backwards — of a 

 soft black-brown hue ; near centre is a wide, procurved, ai'cuate 

 bar of a deeper shade, intersected by a light-brown sagittate 

 figure, apex directed forwards ; posterior fourth shows a dark 

 angular mark with revolute ends ; projecting from it towards 

 spinners is a short, somewhat lanceolate figure ; inferior half 

 of lateral margins marked with light earthy-brown, close, 

 oblique streaks ; ventral region normal colour, border narrow, 

 serrate, interrupted. Vulva reddish-brown, approximating to 

 yellow-brown on margins ; large, transverse oval eminence, 

 emarginate over the rima genitalis ; area occupied by two 

 circular fovete, intersected by a moderately broad )( -shaped 

 septum ; foveoe exhibit within a dark, wide, tapering, revolute 

 membrane. 



Captured by H. Siitcr, Mount Cook. 



Attus valentulus, sp. nov. 



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

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



CephalotJiorax brown-black; moderately clothed with white 

 and yellow adpressed hairs and erect black ; irides orange ; 

 elevated ; cephalic part aplanate, frontal region slightly 

 rounded, sides abrupt ; depth of clyj^eus less than radius of a 

 fore-centre eye ; fringe of white hairs ; thoracic and cephalic 

 parts of about equal length, sides rounded ; profile-line rises 

 somewhat abruptly from thoracic junction, slightly curved to 

 dorsal eyes, moderately inclined forwards across ocular area. 



Anterior row of eyes sensibly recurved ; laterals about one- 

 fourth size of centrals, separated by intervals exceeding radius 

 of a side-eye ; dorsal eyes perceptibly larger tlian laterals, 

 project from moderate prominences, near margin of hind-slope ; 

 space between them exceeds interval dividing laterals by 

 nearly one-third ; more distant by one-third from each other 

 than they are from fron.tal margin ; eyes of second row posited 

 rather closer to fore-laterals than they are to hind-pair ; ocular 

 area one-third broader behind than long. 



Fakes lake-brown, hairs white ; flat, scarcely as long as 

 the pars digitalis of palpus; breadth equals space occupied by 

 fore-centre eyes. 



MaxillcB hght chocolate-brown, pale apices; -enlarged for- 

 wards, rounded, inclined over labinvi, latter oi-gau deeper 

 shade than maxilla?, rather more than half theii- length ; 

 oval. 



Sterimm lake-black ; white hairs ; small, oval. 



Legs brownish-yellow, suffused — except tarsi — with lake- 



