BY A. T. iTPvQUHART. Vl7 



MaxillcB fuscous, aj^icus olive-green ; breadth somewhat 

 surpassed by length, obtusely pointed, directed towards each 

 other. 



Labium, sub-triangular, rather wider than long, more than 

 half length of maxillse, similar colour. 



Sturnum fuscous ; sparingly clothed with white adpressed 

 hairs ; cordate, perceptible eminences opposite coxal joints. 



Legs brownish- gamboge, femora of two firvst pairs suffused 

 with red-lake ; of third pair central and distal reddish rings ; 

 femora of hind legs have anterior three-fourths suffused with 

 lake-brown; indications of aunuli on other joints; moder- 

 ately strong ; sparingly armed with whitish hairs and slender 

 yellowish spines. 



Falpi colour and armature of legs. 



Abdomen broad oviform, depressed, humeral tubercles 

 obtuse-conical, directed outwards and upwards ; posterior 

 tubercles obtuse; central of first row rather the longest, 

 much the widest ; tubercular projection of second row sume- 

 what surpasses upper tubercle in size ; lowest represented by 

 a strong wrinkle ; ground colour very pale raw-sienna, orange 

 tinge, lightlv suffused — mainly on folium, with a pale olive- 

 brown ; speckled with rather faint lake flecks ; margins of 

 folium somewhat undetermined, creuate, yellowish-olive ; 

 three pairs of impressed spots, fore-p drs form a trapezoid 

 narrowest in front; centre pair largest and darkest; dorsal 

 aspect laterally bordered by interrupted, deep olive-green 

 bands ; ventral colouration represents various shades of brown 

 encroaching into lateral margins ; corpus vulvce brownish- 

 yellow ; sub-quadrate, elevated, deeply emarginate at base of 

 scapus, which is of a light yellow-brown colour, projects 

 nearly one-half its length beyond corpus, transversely 

 wrinkled, aplanate, first half ovate, moderately wide ; basal 

 end of second half oval, about half breadth of first part, fore- 

 half compressed, vermiform ; corpus laterally margined by 

 reddish-brown, ear-shaped, well-developed costae, discloses 

 at posterior end of shallow cavity bordered by costae, two 

 somewhat pyriform lobes. 



Single specimen. 



Epeira sub-flavida, sp. nov. 



Fern. — Oeph. th,, long, 4 ; broad, 3 ; facial index, 1"8. 

 Abd., long, 8 ; broad, 6. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 12, 11-4, 11, 9 mm. 



Oephalothorax deep fulvous, slightly speckled with chestnut- 

 brown ; eye prominence yellow ; sub-parallel streaks on caput 

 exhibit two spots ; fovea dark ; radii of thorax shaded with 

 the normal rich chestnut ; hairs yellowish, sparse ; fore-half of 

 cephalic part somewhat depressed above, squarely truncated, 



