•T12 On new Australian Spiders. 



is the same width as the latter, of which there are a few on 

 the lower inner corner of the maxilla?. 



Arbajiitis maculipes, sp. u. 

 a, eyes ; b, profile. 



The lip is slightly longer than broad and without spines. 



The sternum is long and piriform, truncate in front. 



There are scojjulse on the anterior tarsi only ; three spines 

 in the scopula at the anterior end and on the distal joint of 

 the palp. 



The first joint of the superior spinnerets is stout and 

 longest, the third almost hemispherical. The inferior pair 

 of spinnerets are short, stout, and close together. 



Measurements in millimetres : — 



Broad. Long. 

 Cephalothorax. . . . 10 5 in front. 



Abdomen 8 7| 



Eye-space 1-6X-8 



Ciypeus "3 



Tr. & Pat. & Metat. 



Coxae, fern. lib. & tars. 



Legs L 4 8 8 G = 25 



2. 3| 7 7 6 = 23i 



3. 3 6 5i 6 = 20i 



4. 3A 8 9 8 = 28^ 



Palpi 3i 6 5 3i = 18 



Superior spinnerets .... ,. | \ \ = 1^ 



At first sight this seems rather like Karsch's Hermeas 

 crispus (Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Nat. Berlin, 1878, vol. li. p. 823). 

 He, however, says the eyes are \ery near the .margin of the 

 ciypeus, the rear row broader than the front. Scopula on 

 tarsus and metatarsus i. and ii. Abdomen foxy red, witli no 

 mention of yellow spots, nor of the very distinctive brown 

 spots on the two front pairs of legs, by all of which 

 characters A. maculipes is clearly differentiated tiierefrora. 



One female, from 'J'asmania (without closer designation). 



