204 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Aet. XVI. — Descriptions of New Species of Araneae. 



By A. T. Ukquhart, Coit. Mem. Boy. Soc. of Tasmania. 



[Read before the Auckland Institute, 23rd October, 1893.] 



Faui. THEEAPHOSID^. 



Gen. Nemesia, Latr. 



Nemesia kirkii, sp. nov. 



Fern. — Ceph.-th., long, 9-1 ; wide, 7 ; facial index, 5. 

 Abd., long, 14; wide, 9-5. Total length, including falces, 

 22-3. Legs, 4, 1, 2, 3 = 22-8, 21, 20-4, 19-5 mm. 



Cephalotliorax orange-ochreous, median stripe brown, nar- 

 row, occurs on occiput ; ocular eminence brown. With the 

 exception of a few black hairs on lateral margins and medial 

 line of caput, almost devoid of hairs. Length equal to the 

 tibia, metatarsus + tarsus of fore-leg, breadth to patella -f tibia; 

 oval, slightly compressed at caput, truncated at each end ; 

 one-tifth broader in front than behind ; pars cephalica convex ; 

 depth of chjpcus about equal to space occupied by central pair 

 of eyes — anterior row ; pars thoracica depressed ; fovea circu- 

 lar, deep ; caput and radial striae well defined ; profile-contour 

 ascends from petiolum to frontal margin with a double arch, 

 at an angle of 30deg. 



Eyes grouped on a tolerably well developed, elliptical 

 eminence ; viewed from above represent procurved and re- 

 curved lines. Posterior row moderately procurved ; anterior 

 slightly recurved ; lateral pairs oval, largest of eight, posited 

 obliquely — less than one-third of their greater diameter apart, 

 on somewhat collar-like elevations ; posterior centrals approxi- 

 mate to an oval form ; about one-third smaller than side-eyes; 

 placed a trifle in advance, and separated from them by an in- 

 terval slightly shorter than that which divides the latter pairs 

 from each other ; anterior centrals circular, only dark eyes of 

 the set ; sensibly exceed hind-centrals in size ; divided from 

 each other by an interval equalling three-fourths their own 

 diameter ; separated from hind-median pair by an eye's radius, 

 and from laterals of same row by a visibly-shorter interval. 



Falces purple-black ; moderately furnished with black 

 hairs and bristles ; project abruptly forwards ; profile-contour 

 represents a somewhat even curve ; stout ; length equals 

 facial index. 



MaxillcB acutely conical, enlarged at insertion of palpi, 

 which are articulated near the extremity ; latter point bent 

 outwards ; divergent ; inferior slope of basal half studded 

 with small papillae. 



