1879.] SPIDERS FROM NEW ZEALAND. C93 



Genus Walckenaera, Bl. 

 Walckenaera cristata, Bl. 



Examples of both sexes of this Spider were contained amono- others 

 kindly brought to me from New Zealand by Mr. A. S. Atkinson, in 

 18/8. I have carefully compared them with types of the species 

 found both in England and in various parts of the continent of 

 Europe, and (excepting in being a little larger) can find no structural 

 difference whatever. 



The occurrence of this species in New Zealand, where it can have 

 had but slight chance of being introduced from Europe, is very in- 

 teresting, especially as it is the first Spider of this large group as 

 yet recorded from the Antipodes. I should now confidently expect 

 that many more species of Walckenaera will be found in New 

 Zealand, when its Microaranese come to receive due attention. 



Genus Linyphia. 

 Linyphia subdola, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. H.) 



Length of an adult female 2\ lines, and of an adult male 12 

 line. 



The cephalothorax of the female is of a dark yellow-brown colour; 

 the lateral marginal constrictions at the caput are moderate, the other 

 normal indentations well marked. The profile forms a slight but 

 tolerably even curve to the eyes, though slightly fuller near the 

 occiput ; the height of the clypeus exceeds half that of the facial 

 space, and its direction is nearly vertical. 



The eyes are rather closely grouped in the usual four pairs ; those 

 ot the lateral and hind-central pairs are of fair size, very nearly equal 

 and seated on black tubercular spots; the interval between those of 

 the hmd-central pair is equal to nearly about half of an eye's diameter 

 and each is separated by a diameter's distance from the hind-lateral 

 eye on its side, and by a slightly greater interval from the fore- 

 central eye next to it. The fore-centrals are very small, indistinct, 

 and contiguous to each other. 



The legs are rather slender, moderately long, of a yellowish or 

 brownish-yellow hue, furnished with fine hairs and a very few slender 

 bristle-like spines. Their relative length appears to be 1, 4, 2, 3. 



The palpi of the female are slender, and similar in colour 'to'the 

 legs ; in those of the male, the cubital and radial joints are very 

 short ; the latter is longest and much the strongest, being enlarged 

 gradually from the posterior to the anterior extremity, and furnished 

 on the sides with numerous strong bristly hairs. The digital joint 

 is long and tapers regularly to a point. The palpal organs are 

 tolerably complex ; at their base on the outer side is a small, curved 

 obtusely-ended, corneous process ; and on the inner side, opposite to 

 it, is a curved spine, whose attenuated point has a circular form. 



The falces are tolerably long, rather strong, a little prominent at 

 their base in front, divergent at the extremities, and slightly directed 

 backwards ; on their inner sides are four longish sharp teeth The 

 colour of the falces is like that of the cephalothorax. 



