102 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN ARANEiE. 



pied by a large, yellowish, circular fovea intersected by a pale^ 

 somewhat Y shaped costa, border colouration of upper-half, 

 somewhat membraneous, broad, ridged, constricted in front at 

 base of costa; dark fore-margin projects over the rima 

 genitalis. 



Four specimens, Domain, Hobart. 



Cluhiona apiataf sp. nov. 

 Fern. — Ceph. th., long, 3-4; wide, 2*5; facial index, 2. 

 Abd., long, 6 ; wide, 3-2 ; legs, 1, 4, 2, 3=16-3, 12, 11, 7 mm. 



CeplialothorcLX light ochreous-browu ; cephalic region ex- 

 hibits medial and lateral bands lightly tinted with olive- green, 

 former dilated, tapers to fovea, broken at limit of caput by a 

 chestnut- brown lanceolate figure; latter bands interrupted ; 

 sparingly clothed with a pale pubescence and darkish hairs ; 

 nearly as long as the patellary and tibial joints of second \Qg ; 

 pars cephalica depressedly convex, sides abrupt ; height of 

 clypeus less than diameter of a fore-centre eye ; thoracic part 

 low, fovea very shallow ; profile-contour inclined backwards 

 with a visible curve to thoracic indentation, from thence dips 

 to stalk more abruptly. 



Eyes on narrow dark rings ; posterior row sensibly pro- 

 curved ; median-pair scarcely larger than laterals, a little 

 more distant from them than they are from each other ; 

 anterior row slightly recurved, centrals visibly exceed hind- 

 pair in size, form with them a trapezoid narrowest in front ; 

 posited rather closer to one another than they are to side-eyes ; 

 latter pair separated by an interval equal to about three- 

 fourths their diameter. 



Falces ochraceous, faint olive-green streak ; haired ; sub- 

 conical, fore-third somewhat constricted and divergent ; 

 project forwards; length rather surpasses their space, latter 

 interval exceeds breadth of hind-row of eyes. 



Maxillce shade darker than legs; moderately haired ; second- 

 half dilated ; superior external angle proninent, less acutely 

 truncated than inferior angle, base of which nearly reaches 

 Up. 



Labium light brown ; length rather exceeds breadth ; sides 

 rounded ; aj)ex abscinded ; nearly two-thirds length of 

 maxillas. 



Sturnum colour of coxae ; faint olive- green, triangular 

 marks between the slight eminences. 



Legs slender ; shade lighter than cephalothorax, tinged at 

 articulation of joints with red-lake ; hairs fine, sparse ; few 

 slender black spines on femoral, tibi.il, and metatarsal joints ; 

 spines on penultimate article strongest ; claw-tuft moderately 

 developed; scopula somewhat scant; hairs fine. 



