ojO Mr. Ijutler on a CoU. of ArarJmidn from Qneemlnnd, 



mouth sordid testaceous, sternum pale fleshy-brown ; 

 abdomen dull ochreous, the outer margin, excepting at tlie 

 back occupied by fourteen grey-centred ocelloid spots, four 

 similar central spots arranged in a square (the front pair 

 nearest together), between and at the back of which is a 

 very irregular sinuated and partly embossed transverse 

 blackish marking, behind which marking, the ground colour 

 is brown dotted with ochreous ; venter grey with rather 

 narrow testaceous outer margin : legs mahogany-red, 

 clothed sparsely with testaceous hairs, tips of tarsi Ijlack ; 

 palpi mahogany-red, densely clothed with testaceous hairs. 



Structure — Cephalothorax rather longer than broad, 

 wider beliind than before and convex at the sides ; head 

 gradually ascending in the middle to the central oculiferous 

 prominence, whicli is considerably liigher than the lateral 

 tubercles; the front pair of central eyes smaller and nearer 

 than the hind pair; lateral pairs placed slightly obli(|uely ; 

 mandibles cylindrical, narrower from the middle forwards ; 

 sternum unequally pyriform : abdomen about f broader 

 than long, convex and waved in front, round at the sides, 

 obtusely conical behind ; the front area is swollen in the 

 centre close to the margin and produced obliquely Ijack- 

 wards into a robust, prominent, obtusely-terminated projec- 

 tion (length 3 mm.), the hinder area is elevated and 

 somewhat abruptly bent downwards, and is ornamented by 

 a longitudinal central series of small tubercular processes, 

 the two first being somewhat isolated and most prominent; 

 palpi short, thick; legs longitudinally sulcated : length of 

 cephalothorax (without the mandibles) 3^- mm.; of abdo- 

 men 5^ mm., width 8 m.m., relative length of legs, 4, 2, 1, 

 3, the fourth pair being the longest. 



Allied to T. turrigera of Koch, but at once distinguished 

 by the differently formed and backward directed projection 

 on the abdomen, besides numerous other minor 

 distinctions. 



Argiope magnifica. 



Koch, Araohn. Austral p. 27, n. 1, t. ii, fig. G (1871). 



Argiope gorgonea. 

 Koch. 1. c, p. 35 (1871). 



