Spider from New Zealand. 69 



The legs in all the specimens are rather longer in propor- 

 tion to the cephalothorax than the measurements given by 

 L. Koch, but they agree closely otherwise with his description 

 of his type specimen from Auckland, and I have no reason 

 to doubt their being the same, more especially as the legs are 

 normally carried closely bent up and are not easy to measure. 



As in all this group, the tarsi and metatarsi of the front 

 two pairs of legs are flattened and abnormally short. The 

 metatarsi are furnished with a double row of stout curved 

 spines on the underside (in my paper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1901, ii. p. 229, by a misprint this character is ascribed to 

 metatarsus iv.). 



The superior tarsal claws have one long pectination, with a 

 few uneven rugations on either side. 



The front row of eyes is straight, the rear row is slightly 

 recurved. 



Fig. 2. 



5 

 Migas paradoxus, L. Koch. 

 a, eyes, X 10 ; b, profile, nat. size. 



The cephalothorax and mandibles are yellow- brown ; 

 sternum, lip, and maxillae yellow ; abdomen black and rather 

 rugose above, dark yellowish grey below. The space in 

 front of the genital aperture and spinnerets yellow. 



The strongly recurved cephalic fovea and rather profuse 

 bespining of lip and maxillae (in female) are marked features. 



I append measurements (in mm.) of one of Mr. Gray's 

 specimens, apparently adult, and of the still larger ' Challenger ' 

 specimen : — 



Specimen from nest (W. Gray). 



Cephalothorax . 



Abdomen 



Mandibles . . , 



