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just meeting in the middle line behind ; a silvery-white 

 patch in the middle between the posterior eyes and one on 

 each side below the eyes of the second line ; red hairs in the 

 space between the eye3 of the anterior line. Abdomen pale in 

 the middle, a broad black band stretching on each side to the 

 spinners ; sides pale, with silvery hairs ; ventral surface pale, 

 with a tuft of black hairs in front of the spinning-maraillfe. 

 Second, third, and fourth legs pale yellow, with black spines, 

 the tibiffi stained with deep brown, especially along their 

 anterior and posterior sides ; first leg deep ochre-yellow, with 

 a heavy brown stripe running along the anterior and posterior 

 margins. Mandibles, palpi, and mouth-parts deep ochre- 

 yellow; tarsus of palp infuscate. 



Carapace with its cephalic area nearly flat above and 

 almost horizontal, its height considerably less than the length 

 of the ocular area. Eyes of second row minute, nearer those 

 of the third than of the first ; antero-laterals standing by 

 about half their diameter above the upper edges of the 

 medians, their diameter equal to about the radius of the 

 latter; clypeus low, about half the radius of the medians. 



Fang-groove of mandible armed with 5 strong teeth in 

 front and 5 or 6 equally strong teeth behind. 



Palpus short, reaching about halfway along the femur of 

 first leg, its femur arched ; patella and tibia subequal; tarsus 

 piriform elongate, as long as tibia and about half the patella; 

 tarsal bulb with a median blunt-pointed process running 

 backwards alongside the tibial spur. 



Legs long and slender ; those of first pair thicker than the 

 rest, with a fringe of hairs along the underside of the femur, 

 tibia, and protarsus, and a slighter fringe on the upperside of 

 the femur ; tibia armed below with 5-7 pairs of longish spines ; 

 protarsus with 3-4 pairs. Patellar of first and second uu- 

 spined, of third and fourth with or without a posterior spine. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 8 ; lengtii of 

 carapace 3o, width 25 ; length of first leg 14'5, of second 10, 

 of third 10"5, of fourth 11 ; patella and tibia of first leg 5'5, of 

 second 4'^^ of third 3*5, of fourth 3 ; protarsus and tarsus of 

 fourth leg 4. 



Loc. New Georgia {II. M.S. 'Penguin^). A single male 

 example. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIX. 



Fig. 1. Conothele nigriceps, sp. n. Distal segments of palp from ex- 

 ternal aspect. 



Fig. 2. Argiope leopardina, sp. n. Dorsal surface of cephalothorax and 

 abdomen. 



Fig. 2 a. Ditto. Lower surface of abdomen. 



