114 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN ARANE^. 



Labium darker shade ; sub- oval, everted, nearly as long as 

 wide, about balf length of maxillae. 



Sturnum mahogany-brown ; cordate, eminences opposite 

 coxse. 



Legs fulvous, conspicuously spotted with light olive-brown 

 and lake dots, latter predominate, anuuli, olive-brown; 

 suffused with dark-lake ; markings vary somewhat in indi- 

 vidual examples ; fairly well furnished with outstanding, 

 black hairs ; all joints, except tarsi, tolerably well armed witb 

 yellowish, dark-tipped, slender spines. Superior tarsal claws 

 — 1st pair, evenly curved, 12 close teeth; inferior claw, 

 sharply bent, free end directed forwards, 2 close teeth. 



P(x?29i light fulvous, radial and digital joints ringed ; palpal 

 claw long, 7 teeth. 



Abdomen oviform; light fulvous, posterior three-fourths 

 of dorsal aspect more or less suffused with lake, flecked with 

 rather large and small lake-coloured dots ; larger spots have 

 a dense shade ; basal end somewhat unspotted ; folium ex- 

 tends from about second quarter to anus, posterior two-thirds 

 reddish-lake, marginal spots resolved into sinuate border; 

 flecks on petiole intermixed with black-lake streaks and dots; 

 spots on ventral region resolved more or less into longitudinal 

 streaks ; light ground colour encroaches from base dividing 

 the wide quadrate median stripe from vulva and sides ; 

 spinners light purple. Corpus vulvae red-chestnut ; elevated, 

 represents the segment of a circle, centre-third somewhat 

 rounded, tumid, projects forwards, discloses beneath a, 

 moderately wide, dark bordered, sub-linear septum, inter- 

 secting two large mussel-shaped foveae. 



Several examples. 



Fam. EPEIEID^. 

 Gen, Epeira, Walck. 



Epeira phalerataf sp. nov. 



Fern. — Ceph. th., long, 3 ; wide, 2-5 ; facial index 1. Abd. 

 long, 6; wide, 4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3=3-2, 7-4, 7-8, 6-5 mm. 



Cephalcthorax light olive-brown, speckled, especially about 

 normal grooves, with olive-green ; wide median and sub- 

 marginal bands tinted with olive-green ; eye-eminence red- 

 dish-brown; hairs white, silky, tolerably long and thick; 

 cephalic part moderately convex, ocular eminence prominent; 

 lateral index one-third shorter than facial ; height of clypeus 

 just surpasses interval of a fore-centre eye; thoracic part 

 moderately convex, sides well rounded ; posterior incline 

 occupied by a trisected area, apex emarginate, limited by 



