162 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Spidrrs and Opiliones. 



Fam. ARGIOPIDAE. 

 Subfam. ARGIOPINAE. 



Group ARANEAE. 

 Genus Araneus, Clerck. 

 Araneus verrucosus, Walck. 



Epeira verrucosa, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Ins. Apt., tome ii, p. 135 ; E. Keyser 

 ling, Besch. n. und w.b. arten aus der fam. der Orbitelariae ; in den Sit 

 zungsb. der Isis zu Dresden, 1863, p. 139, pi. vi, f. 20, 21 ; L. Koch 

 Die Arach. Austr., 1872, p. 112. Urquhart, Trans, and Proc. N.Z. Inst, 

 vol. xxiv, 1891, p. 226. Araneus verrucosus, Hogg, Proc. Royal Soc 

 Victoria, vol. xiii, 1900, p. 74; E. Simon, Arach. des lies Chatham, Zool 

 Jahrb., 21 band, heft. 4, 1905, p. 417. 



Two males and two females from the Auckland Islands, three females from 

 Campbell Islands. Previously recorded from New Zealand, Wharekauri, Chatham 

 Isles, and Victoria. 



Fam. CLUBIONIDAE. 



Subfam. CLUBIONINAE. 



Group CLUBIONEAE. 



Genus Amaurobioides, Cambr. 



Amaurobioides, 0. P. Cambridge, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1883, p. 356, pi. xxxvi, 

 fig. 3 ; P. Goyen, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1887, p. 140 ; E. Simon, Hist. Nat. 

 des At., vol. ii, p. 89, 1897. Uliodon, E. Simon, Hist. Nat. des Ar., 

 vol. ii, suppl., p. 1034. 



There can be no reasonable doubt that these specimens found on Campbell 

 Island, on rocks between the tide-marks, are closely allied to the species described 

 by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, A. maritima (loc. cit), as having been found on rocks 

 in the sea at AUday Bay, Otago, and for which he formed the genus Amaurobioides. 

 The fact that these were taken in a similar position on Campbell Island would seem 

 to establish their claim to be really marine spiders in the same sense as those of the 

 genus Desis. The only difference of generic value is that Mr. Cambridge states the 

 cephalothorax to be in length double its breadth. In this species it is 3^ mm. broad 

 to 4j mm. long, but, as he makes the cephalothorax in his drawing (which is quite 

 as likely to be correct) in the ratio 5 to 7|, I place them in his genus. 



M. Simon joins this genus with Uliodon, L. Koch, to which Zora, L. Koch (non 

 C. Koch), had previously been added. The specimens described below agree very 

 closely with Mr. Cambridge's genus, but differ materially from Uliodon, L. Koch, 

 and more still from Zora, L. Koch. The eyes are, of course, different, and so is the 

 proportion of the legs, but the cephalothorax is much broader in front, and certainly 

 not oval. The maxillae are more upright, and not so narrowed at their bases. The 

 lip is somewhat similar at the base, but not so pronouncedly concave in front. The 



