-+8 Records of the S.A. Museum 



within and at the nutfr extremity df the cross-bar to tlie T. F.pigynum trans- 

 versely oval, with lateral pits, and a short. Ijroad, and arched median process. 

 Type, I. 11.S25. 



ARANEUS VERRUCOSUS Walck. (L.H.I.) 



.■\ considerable numi)er of specimens of this species was collected, and 

 they disphi}' some variation. 



ARANEUS VIRIDIPES Dol. (L.H.I.) 



ARANEUS NIGROPUNCTATUS sp. nov. (L.H.I.) 



(PI. xxix, ligs. 55, 56.) 



9 Cephalothorax, 3 '9 mm. Itmt;-, 2-5 mm. broad: alxlomen. 4 v mm. 

 long, 3.8 mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax obovate. yellow, ornamented with minute black spots, 

 some of which are isolated, and some disposed in groups. Pars cephalica 

 strongly arched, segmental groove profound ; ocular area normal ; clypeus 

 dee]3. Pars thoracica broad, arched, median and radial grooves distinct ; 

 marginal Viand yellow. Eyes black, prominent, arranged in three groups of 

 2, 4, 2. Of these the four comjirising th.e median grou]) form a trapezium, 

 and are the largest: lateral eyes small, contiguous. Legs strong, yellow, 

 spotted with l)lack, tapering, pubescent, and armed with .fine moderately long 

 black spines. Relative lengths, 1, 4, 2, 3. Palpi short, strong, similar in 

 colour and armature to legs. Fakes yellow, arched, apices slightly divergent. 

 Maxillae and labium very pale-yellow. Sternum concolorous with foregoing, 

 shield-shaped, slightly arched, juibescent. Abdomen o\ate, strongly arched, 

 overhanging liase of cephalothorax, moderately hairy, yellow, spotted with 

 black: superior surface ornamented in front with a median longitudinal dark 

 bar composed of large and minute dark spots, and at posterior extremity with 

 a delicate scheme of tracery : near the middle there are two dark and mod- 

 erately deep pits ; sides ornamented with dark markings, and a series of large, 

 dark spots; inferior surface pale yellow. Kpigynum slightly raised, longer 

 than broad, complicated: front \n\rt waved laterally and wrinkled trans- 

 verselv : posterior part broad, wrinkled laterally, and having at the centre 

 two dark elongated pits. 



Two S])ecimens were obtained from INIount (iower and they differ in 

 abdominal ornamentation, the fore jiart of the superior surface of one being 

 free from the median longitudinal spotted Itar of the other. Type. 1. 11326. 



