68 Mr. II. B. Hoes; on a 



too 



inferior claw being smooth. At the anterior end of the meta- 

 tarsi is a ring of short incurved spines and four pairs of 

 spines on the underside of the front two pairs. The tarsi are 

 without spines. 



There is a longitudinal seam along the front side of the 

 coxae, and the chitinous margin of the trochanters is slightly 

 hollowed on the underside, the species in this respect, as in the 

 mandibular fringe, approaching the Lycosidse. 



The measurements (?) in millimetres are as follows : — 



Long. Broad. 

 Cephalothorax 9^ 3| iu front. 



Abdomen 12 65 



Mandibles 4 



Tr. & Pat. & Metat. 



Coxae, feni. tib. & tars. 



Legs 1. 3 7 



2. 2i 6i 



3. 2 6| 



4. 2i 7 

 Palpi 2| 3i 



There are one male (unfortunately wanting a moult) and 

 four females. 



From Wanganui, North Island of New Zealand, Mr. W. 

 Gray was so good as to send me two small pieces of moss- 

 covered bark, each a few inches square. On ray first examina- 

 tion I could see no reason of adequate interest to account for 

 their having been sent so long a journey by post. It was 

 only after careful search that I found the lids of no less than 

 five nests of a little Migas spider, apparently that first 

 described by L. Koch, M. paradoxus. 



The doors of the nests fitted so closely, and, although com- 

 posed of woven felt, so exactly resembled the adjoining bark 

 and lichen as to be quite invisible on a casual inspection. 

 The occupant of one nest had come out and was unhappily 

 crushed, but the other four nests contained live females, one 

 in each. The nests are little silken sacs wedged between 

 interstices of the bark, about f inch in depth and f inch across 

 the opening. 



In the collection made by the 'Challenger' expedition, 

 recently returned to the British Museum (Natural History) 

 after a prolonged absence, is another specimen from Wellington, 

 evidently the same. 



