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similar, but not so dark. The coxae and trocanters yellow-brown. The sternum 

 black-brown. The abdomen dingy yellow-brown, without recognisable pattern. 

 The cephcdotharax is highest one-third of the distance from the posterior end, and 

 slopes to the rear and forward, the rear pair of eyes being about half-way between 

 the highest point and the front row of eyes. The small second row of eyes are 

 slightly nearer to the front row than to the rear row. The front row of eyes are 

 level along the top line, the large median, close together, being twice the diameter 

 of the side pair, which are about a third of their diameter away. The median do 

 not quite reach down to the margin of the clypeus. The mandibles are broader at 

 the base than at the apex, where they are rather flat, the fangs being short, weak, 

 and almost straight. The lip is sUghtly longer than broad, straight in front. The 

 maxillae are rounded at the outer side, hang over the lip on the inside, with a short 

 sloping cut. The front coxae almost touch the lip, and cut across the base of the 

 maxillae. 



The rear coxae are contiguous in the female, but not quite so in the male. In 

 the female the cephalothorax is orange-yellow, with the similar dark-brown patches ; 

 the sides dark brown, with pale-yellow hair ; but the rear slope dingy yellow. The 

 mandibles, palpi, legs, sternum, lip, and maxillae are yellow, with pale hairs. The 

 abdomen, which is a long oval, is dingy yellow-grey, with downlying pale-yellow 

 hair. The yellow, rather long, cylindrical, 1 -jointed spinnerets are quite terminal. 



The male and females were found in the same locality, but the legs of the male 

 are much darker than those of the female ; the rear coxae are not so close together, 

 the front pair are more over the maxillae, and the front pair of legs longer. 

 They might turn out eventually to belong to different species, but I have taken 

 them for the same. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — 



Male. — Cephalothorax, 2^ mm. long, Ifmm. broad (Ijmm. in front); abdomen, 

 2| mm. long, l| mm. broad ; mandibles, | mm. long. 



Legs. 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 



Palpi 



6| 



H 

 2-2 



Female. — Cephalothorax, 2j mm. long, Ij mm. broad (1-4 mm. in front) 

 men, 3 mm. long, If mm. broad ; mandibles, 0-7 mm. long. 



Tr. and Pat. and Met. and 



abdo- 



Legs. 



1 

 2 

 3 



4 

 Palpi 



Coxae. 



Fern. 

 If 



H 



If 

 1 



Tib. 

 H 

 H 



1 3 

 1 



Tars. 



li 

 1 



H 

 If 



I 



4| 

 2f 



One male and two females, from Campbell Island (Des Barres and Chambers). 

 Named after Mr. Des Barres. 



12-S. 



