124 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIA^ ARANE^ 



Palpi armed with, blact bristles and white hairs ; pars 

 huDieralis greenish stone colour, olive-brown basal and apical 

 rings ; length fully equal to the two preceding articles, of 

 even breadth, projects two long bristle-like spines on medial 

 line ; four short spines form a transverse group on fore-end ; 

 cubital joint ochraceous, dusky clouds ; viewed from above, 

 elliptical; pars radialis olive hue, clouded, cup shape, quite 

 one-third shorter than former article ; digital joint surpasses 

 humeral in length ; lamina creamy-ochreous, figured with two 

 interrupted, brownish cross bars ; hairs fine, sparse ; ovate. 

 Bulbous genitalis brown, turgid behind, membraneous in 

 front, margin drawn to a sharp point on outer side ; viewed 

 from beneath, discloses three easily perceptible appendages 

 jDrojecting from within ; nearest to basal end is a semi-trans- 

 parent, membraneous, tapering organ ; immediately beyond 

 are two red-brown, dark-bordered, large, sub-linear apophyses 

 of about equal length and breadth ; first and inner apophyses 

 stretch across face of bulbous to anterior third of clava, 

 posterior side concave, transversely rugose, margins incurved, 

 apex truncated, fore-angle curved upwards ; hind-angle pro- 

 longed, bent downwards ; outer margin produced about mid- 

 way into a short, pointed, backward-curved process ; front 

 apophysis crosses hind and curves back on posterior side of 

 the above-mentioned process ; somewhat aplanate above, 

 convex on inferior side, apex moderately pointed. 



Abdomen oblong-ovate ; dull, greenish, gamboge colour, 

 moderately spotted and streaked with olive-black ; spots on 

 posterior incline resolved into somewhat undetermined arcuate 

 lines ; outline of folium evanescent ; latter design has a 

 deeper tone than ground colour, sharply constricted at pos- 

 terior fourth ; basal half exhibits a broad triangular mark, 

 dappled with black-brown, encloses a linear-lanceolate figure, 

 thickly clothed with white and ochreous-yellow hairs, latter 

 predominate round margin. Abdomen clothed with short, 

 whitish and yellowish hairs, increaing in length on lateral 

 margins. 



Fern. — Ceph. th., long, 3; broad, 2-1. Abd., long, 3*1; 

 broad, 21. Legs, 4, 1—2, 3=10, 77, 6'7 mm. 



Cephalothorax brown-pink; thoracic part displays two 

 broad brown bands — outer border undulating, encloses a 

 tapering dorsal mark ; ocular area and sides of caput clouded ; 

 tolerably well clothed with white and ochreous-yellow hairs, 

 few black, bristle-like hairs on caput ; ovate moderately com^ 

 pressed forwards ; facial index surpasses lateral by one- 

 fourth ; pars cephalica depressedly convex ; sides abrupt ; 

 height of clypeus exceeds interspace between fore-centre 

 eyes ; dorsal aspect of thoracic part aplanate, sides somewhat 

 steep ; groove longitudinal ; radial striae tolerably well 



