164 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Spi(^ 



sternum, long and narrow, is not broader than the length of the coxae, mr. v.. 

 bridge's and tliis new species have both pronounced claw-tufts of spatulated bri^t' 

 and the female epigyne is of a totally different type. I can see no justification :^^. 

 associating the two genera. 



Amaurobioides piscator, nov. sp. (Plate VII, figs. 4a-4c.) 



The cephalothorax is black-brown, covered with short fine downlying forward- 

 pointing grey hairs. The mandibles are black-brown, with short brown hair on 

 the basal part and long brown upstanding bristles on the lower half; the fangs 

 are red, darkest at the basal end. The lip and maxillae are red-brown with paler 

 edgings in front. The sternum and coxae are bright yellow-brown. The legs and 

 palpi are darker yellow, with dark-grey hairs and bristles ; a dark-grey scopula on 

 tarsus and metatarsus of the front 2 pairs, and grey claw-tufts. 



The (ihdo?nen is black-brown above, with a succession of yellow transverse 

 chevrons, the anterior 2 pairs being divided by the brown colour. The spinnerets are 

 yellow. The underside of the abdomen is yellow, with transverse rows of fine short 

 hairs. 



The cephalothorax is only slightly narrower in front than in its broadest part. 

 It is moderately high in front, and from a level space the breadth of the rear row of 

 eyes, reaching from thence half-way to the rear, it slopes to the edges. The rear row 

 of eyes is straight, and the eyes are equidistant, as far apart as the diameter of the 

 laterals, which are one-third larger than the median. The lateral eyes of the front 

 row are as large as the rear median, and as far from the rear laterals as the diameter 

 of the latter. The small median eyes are one-half the diameter of the rear median, 

 their lower edges being in a straight line. They are all equidistant, being separated 

 by one-third the diameter of the laterals. The distance of the front row from the 

 margin of the clypeus is about the diameter of the front median, but viewed from 

 above they appear right upon it. 



The mandibles are kneed in front, conical, divergent, with long curved fangs. 

 There are 3 large teeth on the inner edge of the falx-sheath, and 1 similar tooth on the 

 outer edge, between 2 smaller ones, the upper being twice as far from it as the lower. 



The maxillae are upright and narrow, straight on the inner side, rounded 

 anteriorly, and at the back constricted in the middle. The lip is nearly twice as long 

 as broad, rounded and rather pointed in front, much constricted at the base. 



The sternum is a long shield shape, straight, and the breadth of the lip in front, 

 pointed posteriorly, where the 2 rear coxae are separated by half their breadth. 

 The sternum and coxae are all thickly covered with regularly laid short fine hair. 



The legs are moderately stout, covered with strong upstanding bristly hair. A 

 scopula of thick hairs, ending in claw-tufts of spatulate bristles, are on tarsi and 

 metatarsi of the front 2 pairs, and are replaced in the 2 rear pairs by a thick coating 

 of upstanding hair and just a few tufty bristles at the end of the tarsi. The claws 

 are well curved, with about 7 small pectinations on the basal half. 



The abdomen is ovate, straight in front, and pointed at the rear. 



The spinnerets are rather long, and all of about equal length. The anterior pair 

 are cylindrical, with a short conical 2nd joint. The superior are stouter and conical ; 

 the 2nd joint, though indicated, is hardly distinguishable as such. They all stand on 

 a strong cartilaginous base, with a small colulus in front. 



