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The maxilla are moderately long and straight, rather broadest 

 at their extremities, which are somewhat obliquely truncated on the 

 outer side, but a little inclined to the labium, and similar in colour 

 to the falces. 



The labium is short, of a semicircular form, and rather darker in 

 colour than the maxillae. 



The sternum is heart-shaped, and like the falces and maxillae in 

 colour. 



The abdomen is oval, tolerably convex above, and projects a little 

 over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a pale dull brownish hue 

 on the upperside, and marked with two irregularly dentated longitu- 

 dinal black bands, leaving a central longitudinal pale brownish band, 

 more or less regularly dentated at its hinder half, where it often takes 

 the ordinary form of a series of triangular markings or angular bars. 

 The pale brown portions are more or less covered with bright white 

 fleck-like spots; the sides are blackish, and the underside dull 

 yellowish brown. The genital aperture is small, of a somewhat oval 

 form, and is divided by a short, obtusely pointed process. The 

 spinners are small, short, and of a dull yellowish hue. 



The male resembles the female in colours and markings, but is 

 smaller, and its legs are longer. 



I have received examples of both sexes of this Spider from several 

 parts of New Zealand, kindly sent to me by Mr. Faraday, Mr. A. S. 

 Atkinson, Dr. Llewellyn Powell, and Captain F. W. Hutton. 



Linyphia peramcena, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 12.) 



Length of an adult male 1^ line, and of an adult female the same. 



The cephalothorax is of a broad-oval form behind, the anterior part 

 much narrower, the marginal constrictions on each side of the caput 

 being moderate. Its colour is a dark reddish black-brown, getting 

 paler on the fore part of the caput and towards the lateral margins, 

 and leaving a well-defined, narrow, longitudinal, slightly tapering 

 orange-yellow band along the middle, from the eyes to the posterior 

 margin. The profile line from the eyes backwards forms a slight 

 but even curve ; the ocular area is rather prominent, owing to the 

 strong tubercles on which the eyes are placed, and the height of the 

 clypeus is nearly about half that of the facial space, or perhaps 

 rather less. The caput is furnished on the upperside with a few 

 hairs, directed forwards. 



The eyes are of a dark grey hue, of tolerable and nearly equal size, 

 excepting those of the fore-central pair, which are much the smallest; 

 all are on black tubercular spots ; those of the hind-central pair are 

 rather further from each other than each is from the hind-lateral eye 

 on its side, the interval being no more (if as much) than half a 

 diameter. The anterior row, looked at from in front, is straight, 

 though, from the much larger size of the lateral eyes, it looks as though 

 a little curved, with the convexity of the curve directed backwards. 

 The eyes of each lateral pair are placed contiguously to each other on a 

 strong rounded tubercle, their direction being straight (that is, not 

 oblique, as is commonly the case). The general position of the eyes 



