1879.] SPIDERS FROM NEW ZEALAND. 691 



whitish broken line on eaeh side, with a central spot of the same 

 hue. The surface of the abdomen is thinly clothed with short stout 

 fine hairs. 



An example of this small, but very distinct, Spider was con- 

 tained among others sent to me from New Zealand by Capt. F. W. 

 Hutton. 



Atkinsonia, gen. nov. 



Cephalothorax short, considerably convex above ; caput large, level 

 on upperside. Ocular area slopes rather downwards and forwards, 

 and is prominent ; hinder slope steep ; clypeus rather high and com- 

 pressed. 



-Eyes as in Euryopis, Menge; four form a square in the middle, and 

 on each side is a pair placed rather obliquely. 



Legs short, slender ; 4, 1, 2, 3 ; furnished with longish coarse hairs 

 and slender bristles only. 



Falees very small. Maxilla small, strongly inclined to the labium, 

 which is very short, rather wide, and with a curved apex. Sternum 

 distinctly heart-shaped. 



Abdomen flattened oviform, projecting well over the base of the 

 cephalothorax ; cuticle somewhat coriaceous, thickly covered with 

 small pock-like markings, and clothed thinly with longish coarse hairs. 



Allied to Euryopis, but the form of the cephalothorax is quite 

 different. 



Atkinsonia nana, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 10.) 



Adult male, length -^ of an inch. 



The cephalothorax is of a brownish-red hue, with a small dark 

 blackish patch at the occiput continued forwards by a line of the 

 same colour. 



The eyes of each row respectively are equidistant from each other. 



The legs are of the same colour as the cephalothorax ; the anterior 

 extremities of the femora and the undersides of the tibiae somewhat 

 suffused with dark brown. 



The palpi are short j the radial is stronger than the cubital joint ; 

 the digital joint is large, oval, and has a small sharp-pointed black- 

 tipped projection at the fore extremity. The convex sides of these 

 joints are not (as in Euryopis and some other genera) turned inwards 

 towards each other. The palpal organs are simple, with a rather 

 prominent, sharp-pointed process at their extremity. 



The maxillae, labium, and sternum are similar in colour to the 

 legs, and the latter is covered with small pock -like markings. 



The abdomen is of a rather lighter hue than the cephalothorax, 

 thickly studded both above and below with minute dark red-brown 

 pock-like markings, and thinly clothed with longish coarse hairs ; 

 the upperside has three longitudinal black, and rather irregular, 

 hands, a central and two marginal ones ; these leave a large, somewhat 

 leaf-shaped reddish marking, bisected longitudinally by the central 

 black band, and dentated on its margins. The spinners are short, 

 compact, and enclosed within a kind of sheath-like circular border. 



