Spiders from the Solomon Islands. 4G3 



black; palpi red, with tarsus apically irifuscate ; abdomen 

 with a broad silvery- white anteriorly and posteriorly narrowed 

 dorsal median longitudinal band, bordered with black ; sides 

 of abdomen yellow, silvery in front, ochre-brown behind, and 

 marked with a silvery-white stripe ; lower surface bounded 

 on each side with a silvery-white stripe; the middle field 

 testaceous brown in front, smoky black in the middle ; area 

 all round the spinners yellow, spinners black. 



Carapace as long as tibia of fourth leg, longer than patella 

 and tibia of third ; impressed on each side behind the head, 

 which is convex from side to side and from before backwards ; 

 ocular quadrangle a little wider in front than behind, situated 

 on a low eminence; the eyes subequal in size; eyes of ante- 

 rior line slightly procurved ; lateral eyes on a low eminence, 

 without superciliary tubercle. 



Legs long and slender, first nearly five times as long as 

 carapace. 



Abdomen nearly twice as long as broad, as high as wide, 

 rounded in front, gradually narrowed behind ; its posterior 

 extremity convexly rounded, and produced beyond and above 

 the spinners into a broad rounded prominence. 



Vulva. Scape piriform, short and small as compared wltli 

 the subjacent sclerite, its apex not projecting beyond the 

 posterior border of the latter. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 18; length of 

 carapace 5*5, width 4'8; length of abdomen 12, width 6*5 ; 

 length of first leg 27, of second 25, of third 15, of fourth 25. 



hoc. Probably Shortland Island, a single adult female 

 collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford. 



13. Araneus Woodfordi, sp. n. (PL XIX. figs. 3, 3 a.) 



In shape and very largely in colour nearly allied to 

 A. relicinus, but differing in that the upperside of the 

 abdomen is occupied by a long, broad, black stripe, broad in 

 front and behind, narrower in the middle, divided in front by 

 a narrow, median, silvery-white stripe, and bordered on each 

 side by a sharply defined silvery white stripe emphasized 

 externally by a narrow black border line : the femora' of the 

 legs are in one specimen coloured as in relicinus^ in another 

 there is much more black ; in both examples the fourth leg 

 from patella to tarsus is of a uniform black. 



Scape of vulva large and long, projecting some distance 

 beyond the posterior edge of the inferior portion. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total lengtii 15; length of 

 carapace 5, of abdomen 10, of first leg 22, of fourth 22. (la 

 the second specimen the legs are relatively longer.) 



Loc, Probably Shortland Island ((7. M. Woodford). 



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