106 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN AKANEiE. 



green; fovea dark, very sparingly clothed witli hair; cephalic 

 part oval, facial and lateral index about equal breadth; 

 clypeus projecting, one-half depth of facial space ; thoracic 

 part oval, convex ; fovea oval, longitudinal, deep ; normal 

 grooves, somewhat slight; profile-lioe moderately curved 

 across occiput, dips forward ; thorax rises sensibly above plane 

 of caput, slopes at an angle of 40deg. to stalk. 



Eyes of tolerable and nearly equal size, on dark rings ; 

 posterior row sensibly procurved ; median pair visibly more 

 distant from laterals than they are from each other, an in- 

 terval scarcely equalling an eye's diameter; anterior row 

 recurved ; centrals dark ; smallest of eight removed from 

 one another by more than an eye's radius ; fully their 

 diameter from side pair ; laterals surpass posterior median 

 pair in size, posited obliquely on a dark, common, moder- 

 ately strong tubercular elevation, contiguous. 



Falces brownish-ochreous, clouded with olive-green ; sub- 

 conical, divergent, retreating; base j^rojects sensibly beyond 

 plane of clypeus ; three strong teeth on outer row ; inner four 

 small, moderately stout; length slightly exceeds the pa.rs 

 digitalis of palpus. 



Maxillse ochraceous, base chocolate ; rather longer than 

 broad, inclined towards one another. 



Labium greenish-chocolate, apex yellowish ; broad-oval, 

 apex tumid, everted. 



Sturnum olive-green ; cordate nearly as wide as long. 



Legs slender, ochreous-yellow, annuli faint olive-green; 

 femoral, tibial, and metatarsal joints of I. — II. have three 

 rings, III. — IV. pairs two ; hairs light, sparse ; femora, 

 patellae, and tibse moderately armed with slender spines. 



Palpi and legs concolorous, long, slender ; cubital and radial 

 joints project strongish bristles. 



Abdomen elongate-oviform ; ground colour olive-drab ; 

 folium ovate, occupies dorsal aspect, flecked, more especially 

 along margins, with lake-tinted creamy-coloured dots ; dis- 

 plays round border 15 large brown spots, separated by about 

 their owe breadth ; lateral margins show dull flecks and 

 brown blotches. Vulvce ochr<3ceous, faint, longitudinal, 

 olive-green stripes, two red-brown spots at extremity; moder- 

 ately haired ; represents a remarkably long, curved, mem- 

 braneous scapus, projecting abruptly from a slight elevation, 

 and extending backwards nearly to spinners ; of even width, 

 convex above, concave beneath, margins grooved, apex 

 acutely emarginate. Free part of base or sub-scapus cleft, 

 projects over the rima genitalis ; dark spot within basal 

 curves; beneath the superior scapus, and extending beyond it, 



