104 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN AEANE^. 



Sturnum oclireous-orange, brown margins ; triangular, 

 broad. 



Legs yellowish-orange; femora and tibise of two first pairs 

 almost entirely suffused with blackish-olive ; metatarsi and 

 tarsi have a dusky hue ; indications of annuli at base of 

 penultimate articles ; tibiae of third and fourth legs have 

 irregular evanescent rings at base; moderately clothed with, 

 strongish, black hairs; tibial and metatarsal joints armed 

 with black bristle- like spines; superior tarsal claws; first 

 pair strong, somewhat evenly curved; two close basal teeth; 

 eight curved, open teeth ; inferior claw sharply bent ; two 

 teeth, outer strongest. 



Palpi yellow-orange ; stout ; j)ars humeralis nearly as long 

 as clava, incrassated forwards ; cubital joint — viewed from 

 above linear — roundly pointed, narrower than humeral joint, 

 projects two black bristles ; pars radialis quite as long as 

 former article, laterally compressed ; projects from above a 

 very remarkable large, fuscous, bifurcating process, base and 

 branches flat ; leading branch about as wide as stem, gradually 

 and moderately dilated forwards ; apex truncated, incurved ; 

 lateral branch shortest, projects at a right angle towards 

 clava, orbicular-spathulate ; base of process armed with, 

 strong, long, black bristles ; lamina fuscous-olive, moderately 

 furnished with coarse, black hairs ; rugose elongate-ovate ; 

 base obtusely truncated, upturned above into a short, pointed 

 process ; genital bulb represents a somewhat oblate-spheriod, 

 basal end crossed by a transverse, olive-green callus forepart, 

 traversed by a brown-lake callus ; these bands are divided by a 

 wide, yellowish groove, exhibiting beneath a dark sub-callus; the 

 turgid anterior aspect of bulb is drawn out into a very wide, 

 greenish membrane, reaching to apex of clava. 



Ahdomen inversely ovate ; blue-black ; spinners brownish- 

 yellow; hairs black, coarse, somewhat sparse. 



i^em.— Ceph. th., long, 2'2 ; wide, 2. Abd., long, 32 ; wide, 

 2-3. Masc. Ceph. th., long, 26; wide, 2-3. Abd., long, 4; 

 wide, 3. Legs, 1-4, 2, 3=7, 6, 5'3 mm. 



Cephalothorax glossy, deep amber colour ; ocular area and 

 clypeus suffused with olive-green ; marginal streak dark, 

 sparingly furnished with coarse, black hairs; rugulose; 

 pars cephalica convex, semi-oval ; eye eminence prominent ; 

 lateral index about equal to facial ; cZ^/pews inclined forwards, 

 height, less than two-thirds dej^th of facial space ; pars 

 thoracica circular, moderately convex ; posterior incline de- 

 pressed ; radial striae well defined, caput grooves less pro- 

 nounced ; profile-line dips from limit of caput to thoracic 

 junction at an angle of 30 deg., ascends moderately, with a 

 sensible curve, to hind-row of eyes. 



