126 ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN AEANE^. 



scape, nearly as wide as long; projecting verj perceptibly 

 beyond lateral elongated margins. 



Lycosa f estiva, sj). nov. 



Fem.—QQ\>\i. tli., long, 3-8; wide, 2-9. Abd., long, 3-8; 

 wide, 2-5. Legs 4, 1, 2, 3=14-3, 10-5, 9*9, 9 mm. 



Cephalothorax yellow-ocbreons ; a bright red-lake figure 



tapers from bind row of eyes to limit of caput, lake colour 

 encroaches over facial space ; thoracic part displays two wide 

 fuscous bands — tri-serate on outer side, curving from base to 

 fore-end of caput ; lateral margins lightly pencilled with lake; 

 hairs white, somewhat sparse, patchy on dorsal line ; six 

 strong bristles project from margin of clypeus^ broad ovate; 

 pars cephalica sub-quadrate, sides roundly impressed, ocular 

 region somewhat elevated ; clypeus in depth equal to rather 

 more than one-half of space occupied by anterior row of 

 eyes ; pars thoracica moderately convex ; groove longitudinal ; 

 radial striae fairly well defined ; contour of profile ascends from 

 thoracic junction at an angle of 40 deg., slopes slightly 

 forwards, dips abruptly from verge of second row of eyes. 



Eyes on black spots ; anterior row strongly recurved ; cen- 

 trals about twice as large as side-eyes of same row — latter 

 pair broad-oval — more distant from one another than they 

 are from laterals, an interval visibly less than their radius ; 

 eyes of second row sensibly larger than fore-centrals, divided 

 by a space equal to three-foiu^ths their diameter, less than 

 twice that interval from anterior median pair ; dorsal eyes 

 do not differ essentially in size from fore-centrals, posited 

 obliquely on rather strong, lake-black, lateral processes, 

 interval separating them nearly equal to twice the space that 

 divides them from eyes of second line. 



Falces ochreous-yellow, traversed by a wide, olive-green, 

 centre band ; furnished with white and long black hairs ; 

 conical, retreat visibly, stout ; slightly shorter than the pars 

 digitalis of palpus. 



MaxillcB straw colour ; breadth surpassed by length ; 

 superior angle rounded; inferior, obliquely truncated; in- 

 clined towards one another. 



Labmm shade deeper than maxillae, wider than long, sub- 

 circular, abscinded. 



Sturnum ochreous-brown, wide brown border ; broad oval j 

 fairly well clothed with white hairs. 



Legs, inferior aspect dark stone colour, densely clouded 

 with olive-green ; superior surface ochreous-yellow, sharj)ly 

 defined from lower ; two first pairs suffused — above, with 

 lake ; thighs of third pair somewhat spotted, of fourth suf- 

 fused with lake ; patellary joints streaked; tibiae, metatarsi 



