l66 SUBANTARCTIC islands OiF NEW ZEALAND. [Spiders and Opiliones. 



between the two a shallow depression passing under the median eyes. Viewed 

 from in front this gives the appearance of the eyes standing on a rounded platform 

 above the clypeus proper. The rear row of eyes procurved, when seen from in front, 

 the side eyes being about half their diameter below the median. The median pair, 

 if anything rather larger than the side, are half their diameter apart, and a full diameter 

 from the laterals. The front and rear laterals are on a common protuberance, close 

 together, the lower ones as large as the rear median. The latter are their diameter 

 from the front median pair, which, half the diameter of the same, are one-half their 

 own diameter apart. As their lower edges are on a line with the lower margin of 

 the laterals, the whole row looks somewhat recurved. The clypeus is about five times 

 as wide as the front median eyes. 



The mandMes are broad at the base, rather strongly kneed, slightly divergent, 

 with long and powerful fangs. On the inner margin of the falx-sheath are 2 large 

 teeth at the lower end, and 5 small above them. On the outer margin are 5 large 

 teeth, and 1 small between the basal end and the first of them. The troncature is 

 long and sloping. 



■The lif is broader than long, broadest in front, where it is convex, and pro- 

 trudes over the basal portion the whole of its width. The maxillae bend over the lip, 

 but are upright along their outer edge, rounded to the troncature, which slopes 

 forward so as to nearly meet the opposite one at its lowest point, thence sloping 

 back to the edge of the lip. 



The sternum is shield-shape, broad in front, pointed at the rear. It is convex, 

 with hollows in front of each coxae, and strongly granulated all over, but with only 

 a few upstanding hairs. 



The rear coxae are contiguous, but the 2nd and 3rd on each side are separated 

 by about one-third the diameter of the former. The legs are fine, and nearly smooth. 

 The femora are no thicker than their respective coxae, and curve towards the body. 

 The patella is barely as long as the coxa of its respective leg. The metatarsus and 

 tarsus are very fine, with upstanding hairs. All the tarsi and the metatarsi of the 

 front 2 pairs are without spines. The 2 rear pairs of legs have a pair of spines on 

 the upper side, and a single one underneath, both very fine. 



The abdomen is oval, the back and sides being covered with short longitudinal 

 corrugations, and a few short downlying hairs. The spinnerets are 2- jointed ; the 

 broadest inferior pair, being contiguous, has its short 2nd joint nearly hemispherical, 

 that on the superior being conical and slightly longer. There is a small colulus. 



The epigyne is rather triangular in shape, with a median ridge at the lower 

 edge, and 2 punctuations above. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : Cephalothorax, 3 mm. long, 

 2 mm. broad (1^ mm. in front) ; abdomen, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad ; mandibles, 

 2 mm. long. 



T n Tr. and Pat. and Met. and 



^^- ^•"'*^- Fem. Tib. Tars. 



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