1879.] SPIDERS FROM NEW ZEALAND. 697 



A siugle example of this distinct species (which appears to be 

 allied to Neriene rubripes, Bl.), was contained in the collection from 

 New Zealand given to me by Mr. A. S. Atkinson. 



Genus Mimetus, Hentz (Ctenophora, Bl.). 

 Mimetus mendicus, sp. n. (Plate LIU. fig. 14.) 



Adult female, length rather more than 2| lines. 



The cephalothorax of this Spider is small, of a rather elongate-oval 

 form, and slightly constricted on the lateral margins at the caput ; 

 the profile line forms a slight curve, sloping a little from the thoracic 

 junction to the ocular area, which is broad, prominent on the middle 

 and at the sides ; the height of the clypeus is rather less than half 

 that of the facial space. 



The eyes are of tolerable and nearly equal size, distributed in three 

 well separated groups, and seated on tubercles : the central group 

 (consisting of the fore- and hind-central pairs) forms very nearly a 

 square, and the fore-centrals are placed on a very strong projecting 

 tubercular prominence ; those of each lateral pair are contiguous to 

 each other, oblique, and placed on a strong tubercle quite on the side 

 of the caput. The interval between those of the hind central pair is 

 rather less than an eye's diameter, being no more than half that 

 which separates each from the hind-lateral eye on its side. 



The colour of the cephalothorax is pale yellow, the caput, and 

 some broken, oblique, converging lines on the thorax, being of a dark 

 yellow-brown. 



The legs are long and slender, 1, 2, 4, 3, those of the first and 

 second pairs greatly the longest ; they are similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax, spotted with dull yellow-brown and with a few darker 

 annuli. The spiny armature of the first and second pairs is like 

 that of the typical species, consisting of a row of very long pro- 

 minent, strongish, slightly curved spines along the inner sides of the 

 metatarsi and tibiae, with three to five shorter and more curved ones 

 between each two of them ; the first of these is very short, the rest 

 increasing gradually in length and strength. 



The palpi are slender, moderately long, pale yellow, with a dark 

 yellowish-brown annulus at the base of the digital joint. 



The f alces are long, rather slender, vertical, divergent, the basal 

 half of a pale yellow colour, the rest deep yellowish brown. 



The maxillce are rather long, not very strong, straight, parallel to 

 each other, of a dark brownish hue, paler at the extremities. 



The labium is of a short oblong form, rounded at the apex, and 

 similar in colour to the maxillae. 



The sternum is oval, truncated before, of a yellow colour, marked 

 broadly round the margins with deep reddish yellow-brown oblique 

 markings. 



The abdomen is large, very convex above, with a bluntish sub- 

 conical eminence on each of the highest parts. It was in bad con- 

 dition, but appeared to be of an almost uuiform whitish hue, with a 

 large, dark, somewhat cruciform pattern on the hinder slope. 



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