168 SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. [Sjnders and OpUiones. 



side lines of the same colour, and mottlings on the yellow ground ; underneath 

 dark brown. Spinnerets yellow-brown. 



The cephalothorax is only moderately raised up, and the thoracic part is only 

 slightly lower. In front it is rather more than half its greatest width. 



The rear row of eyes are equal, and equidistant, not quite 1 J times their diameter 

 apart. They are procurved, so that the top of the lateral and the bottom of the 

 median are in the same straight Une. The front and rear laterals are on a common 

 protuberance, nearly their diameter apart. 



The front laterals are as large as the eyes of the rear row, and their diameter 

 from the front median ; the median pair, their diameter apart, are two-fifths the 

 diameter of the laterals. The whole line being straight, the clypeus is four times the 

 diameter of the front median eyes. 



The mandibles are rather longer than the breadth in front of the cephalothorax, 

 kneed at base, and conical, with rather long wavy fangs. There are 2 teeth on the 

 inner side of the falx-sheath and a thick fringe on the outer. 



The lip is longer than broad, straight, slightly hollowed in front, with straight 

 sides, widest just above the constricted base. The maxillae are upright, rounded on 

 the outer side, with base as broad as the front of the lip. 



The sternum is shield-shaped, truncate in front, with point at rear protruding 

 between the 4 pair of coxae, which are not quite contiguous. 



The legs are moderately stout. There are spines on the femora, tibiae, and 

 metatarsi, but the tarsi are all smooth. There are thick bristles on the underside, 

 hardly, however, amounting to a scopula. The superior claws have 5 or 6 pectina- 

 tions, and the inferior is apparently smooth. 



The abdomen is oval, slightly rounded at the sides. The inferior spinnerets are 

 largest in diameter, cylindrical, with a short hemispherical 2nd joint, and on bases 

 not quite contiguous, separated by a large broad-topped colulus. 



The superior pair are also cylindrical, and have a quite distinct conical 2nd 

 joint. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : Cephalothorax, 8| mm. 

 long, 6^ mm. broad (3^ mm. in front) ; abdomen, 10 mm. long, 6^ mm. broad ; 

 mandibles, 4 mm. long. 



One female, from Bounty Island. 



This differs from the species from the Campbell and Auckland Islands not only 

 in its much greater size, but in the closer eye-spacing, and equal distance of the 

 rear row of eyes, though the legs are similar in proportion, and the epigyne of the 

 female very similar. 



Bounty Island is about 4° farther north than the Auckland and Campbell 

 Groups, and naturally would have a milder climate. 



