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basal slope. Ventral shield brown. Vulva brownish-yellow, 

 prominent, transversely wrinkled, cucullate, drawn out and 

 curved towards the rinaa genitalis, extremity deeply cleft ; 

 margins furnished with a wide, brownish beading. The 

 yellowish, slipper-shaped scapus occupies the space between 

 the rounded projections of the hood, slightly exceeds them in 

 length and breadth. 



Single example, Poioell collection. 



Epeira peronginia, sp. nov. 



Fern. — Ceph.-th, long, 2-6 ; broad, 2-1. Abd., long, 4-5 ; 

 broad, 4. Legs, 1, 2-4, 3 = 13, 11-5, 7-5 mm. 



Cepkalothorax yellov^-ish, suffused, more especially over 

 cephalic region, with bright pea-green ; a fuscous, lance- 

 shaped figure occurs within the thoracic indentation ; the 

 brown lines defining the caput strise are prolonged, and di- 

 verge near apex of the above-mentioned mark ; mai'ginal band 

 narrow, brown. Hairs whitish, somewhat sparse and coarse. 

 Pars cephalica depressedly convex, sides abrupt ; lateral index 

 about equal to breadth of frontal margin ; height of clypeus 

 fully equal to radius of a fore-central eye ; pars thoracica 

 broad-ovate, convex ; thoracic indentation acute-ovate, deep ; 

 grooves shallow. Profile-contour ascends from petiolum at an 

 angle of 45 degrees; falls with a moderate incline across caput. 



Eyes distributed in two rather prominently recurved rows, 

 centrals form a trapezoid widest in front ; posterior eyes about 

 one-fourth smaller than anterior pair, separated by about an 

 eye's breadth, an interval Vv'hich scarcely equals the space 

 dividing them from fore-centrals ; laterals one- third smaller 

 than the middle eyes of front row, separated by an interval 

 scarcely equalling their own diameter ; fore-eye posited on a 

 strong tubercle. 



Falces greenish-brown, clouded with chocolate-brown ; 

 linear-conical, distal third curved outwards ; project promi- 

 nently beyond plane of clypeus ; inwardly inclined. 



Maxillce darkish-brown, pale margins; broad, round-pointed. 



Lahmm chocolate-brown, apex pale; acute-oval. 



Sternum greenish -brown, margins clouded with dark- 

 brown; angular - cordate ; eminences opposite coxal joints 

 prominent. 



Legs brownish-yellow, sufi"used with pea-green ; humeral 

 joints marked with central, doubly-serrated, broken, fuscous 

 annulations. Hairs pale-yellow, sparse ; spines yellowish, 

 spring from dark sockets. 



Palpi resemble legs in colour and armature. 



Abdomen angular-ovate, pale-brown, suffused with pea- 

 green ; folium tapers from the slightly-developed humeral 

 tubercles to anus. Fore-part of the broad, quadrate petiole 



