352 Mr. Butler on a Coll. of Arachnida fro^n Queensland, 



obliquely cut from the apex of tlie oval to tlie spinnarets 

 (viewed laterally it is distinctly conical) ; two small 

 vertical tubercles on the anterior area, between and behind 

 which are two impressed punctures, and in the centre of 

 the abdomen four larger impressions forming a square ; 

 venter smooth ; palpi rather short, tibiae and tarsal joints 

 covered with strong bristles; legs cylindrical, clothed with 

 bristles and short hairs. Length of cephalothorax 9 mm., 

 of abdomen 18, width at widest part 11, first pair of legs 

 43, second pair 39, tliird pair 25, fourth pair 38. 

 Allied to E. heroine of Koch. 



Epeira transmarina. 



Keyserling, Verhandl. k. k. Zool. botan. Gesellsch. 

 Wien. p. 814, t. xviii, figs. 15, 16, (1865). 



Epeira tmicronata. 



Koch. Arachn. Austral, p. 74, t. vi, figs. 2, 3, 3a (1871). 



Epeira tenella ? 



Koch. 1. c. p. 76, t. vi, figs. 5, 5a, 6, 6a (1871). 



Meta monogrammata, n. sp. PI. x. fig. 3. 



Colours — Cephalothorax silvery -wdiite, with two minute 

 shining oblique lateral black tubercles behind ; front of 

 caput and mandibles shining-black ; maxilhe piceous ; 

 mouth stramineous ; sternum greyish at the margins, its 

 central area (which is prominent and leaf-like) testaceous ; 

 abdomen whity-brown, silvery in front, with an irregularly 

 trilobed basal black marking, two central waved longi- 

 tudinal white lines, terminating behind in a species of 

 crux, by the addition of lateral outline square spots ; four 

 impressed black dots on the anterior area, limited by the 

 white central lines ; a lateral marginal waved wiiite line, 

 relieved externally by brown streaks ; sides of abdomen 

 obliquely spotted and streaked with brow^n and black, 

 conical end with a central black bar ; venter l)lackish at 

 l)ase and anus, pale-brown spotted with black dots at the 

 sides ; a central subquadrate patch, emarginate beliind, 

 white, crossed tranversely by three macular black V)ars ; 



