BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 2.S. All). IV. Nio 1. lil 



L(ujs 1. 2, 4, O, yellow-brown with a blackLsh shade around 

 the apex of the joints; they are densely clothed with short 

 blackish liairs and have numeroiis lono- and fine spines on all 

 joints except the tarsi. 



Ah(hm<'u long oval, a little tapering toAvards the hind-eud. 

 The back is white. On the posterior halt* there are three 

 pairs of black spöts, the two first ones more or less ronnded; 

 the last pair consists of two short oblique bands. Behind 

 these spöts a single one above the mamilite. On some spe- 

 cimens the two first pairs of spöts are confluent to two angie- 

 bended transverse bands and the last pair plns the impaired 

 spöt eontlnent to a single very large one. The sides of the 

 abdonien are white, sometimes with a longitudinal irregular 

 blackish band. The venter black. 



Välva conf. Pl. I, lig. G. 



Measurements: 



total length 5, mm. 



leugtb of the cephalothorax 1,8 - 



breadtli ■; 1,4 » 



lengtli abdomen 3,.-) •> 



breadth ;■ 2,3 



lengtb :. 1st leg ll.r, 



- 2d 9^8 . 



' 3d » 6,0 -> 



4th 8,4 .; 



Numerous adult females from the lower j)art of the Aysen 

 Valley, Jan. 1897. 



Snbfani. Tetragnathinae. 



Metea3. 



Meta C. KocH 1836. 



c. KoCH in H. Schaffer. Deutsclil. In(^., 1.S36. 



M. echinata n. sp. 



Male. — CephalotJiorax is broad oval, tapering towards 

 the front, which is about half as broad as the broadest part 

 of the pars thoracica. The pars cephaliea is very low; the 

 side-fnrrows indistinct. The central-fnrrow is very deeply im- 



