Spiders and Opiliones.] SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 173 



Tlie epigyne is oval, longer than broad, with a rectangular (i])('iiing reaching 

 from the base to two-thirds of its height upwards. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : Cephalothorax, 2i mm. long. 

 •2 mm. broad (1|- mm. in front) ; abdomen. 4 mm. long, 2| mm. broad ; mandibles, 

 l^ mm. long. 



T n Tr. and Til>. iiiul Met. and 



^ Feni. Pat. Tars. 



1 . . • • i '^ 21 3 = 8h 



3 . . . . I- 2 21 3 = 8 



4 . . • • I 21 3' 4 = 101 

 Palpi . . ■ ■ T l| 1 1 = 3^ 



Two females from Macquarie Island are the only specimens brought from that 

 locality. The Rev. ( >. P. Camlnidge's Myro kerguelenensis was the only spider 

 found on Kerguelen Island by the Transit of Venus Expedition, and M. Eugene 

 Simon has described one other, M . aiffcr, from the Cape of Good Hope. 



The above differs from M. kerguelenensis in the more procurved rear row of 

 eyes, the small median front eyes being quite below the laterals in the former instead 

 of lying between them. The epigyne is longer than broad instead of broader than 

 long (sec. Camb.). In the Cape of Good Hope species the legs (sec. Simon) are darker, 

 and tinged with red. 



This species is named in honour of Mr. A. Hamilton, Curator of the Dominion 

 Museum, Wellington. 



Myro kirki, nov. sp. (Plate VII, figs. 5a, 5h.) 



( 'rj)/i(i/<^thorajr rather dark yellow-brown. Eyes l)right topaz-yellow. 



Mandibles, lip. maxillae, sternum, coxae the same. The coxae have a darker 

 longitudinal median stripe. 



The legs are yellow-brown, with grey rings on the femora, patella, and tibia. 

 grey hair and bristles, and brown spines and claws. The tibia, metatarsus, and 

 tarsus are darker. 



The abdomen (casting skin) is yellow-grey, with brown and palei'-yellow hair. 

 Spinnerets yellow, with brown hairs. 



The cephalothorax is moderately convex, highest in fi'ont of the rear slope, where 

 there is a short deep fovea, rounded at the sides, and narrowing to nearly half its 

 width in front. 



The eyes of the rear row are equal and equidistant, about half their diameter 

 apart, and procurved so that the upper edge of the laterals are on a level with the 

 lower edge of the median. The laterals of the front row are as much below the rear 

 laterals as the rear median are above them, but nearer to them, and of the same 

 size. The front median eyes, one-third the diameter of the others, are their diameter 

 apart, and that distance from the side eyes, but their bottom edges above the upper 

 edges of the front laterals. The clypeus is twice the breadth of the front latei'als. 



There are rather long curved bristles inside the eye-space. 



The mandibles are kneed at the base, conical, and divergent, the fangs long and 

 strong. Four teeth on the inner margin of the falx-sheath, and a thick scopula on 

 the outer. 



