252 Records of the S.A. Museum 



brown beneath : metntarsns and tarsns yelluw l)ro\vn : legs iii and iv straw- 

 yellow, ringed with creamy-white at junction of patella, tarsus, and meta- 

 tarsus, respectively; tarsus iv straw-yellow. Relative lengths, 2, 1,4, 3. Palpi 

 short, strong, yellow, similar in clothing and armature to legs. Falces con- 

 colorous with cephalothorax. Maxillae and labium concolorous with falces. 

 Sternum cordate, rather flat, surface shining dark brown, straw-yellow 

 laterallv, and terminating obtuseh- between fourth ]iair of coxae. Abdomen 

 broadly obovate, slightly overhanging base of cephalothorax, moderately 

 arched, fringed with a few rather long, fine hairs, superior surface dark brown 

 ornamented with chalky-white markings ; sides dark brown, ornamented with 

 chalkv-white pencillings and spots ; inferior surface chalky-white, laterally 

 ornamented with brown spots, median area yellow-brown. Epigynum, a 

 small faintly discernable plaque with two moderately large shallow pits, the 

 outer angles of which are fringed with long hairs. 



A number of examples of this pretty little spider were obtained, and very 

 little, if any, variation in colour and ornamentation is displayed. Type, I. 

 11529. 



DIAEA ALBICERIS L. Koch (L.Tl.I.) 



DIAEA RUBROPUNCTATA sp. nov. (L.H.I.) 



( PI. xxix, figs. 6,v(>f). ) 



c? Cejihalothorax, 2 mm. long, 1-6 mm. broad; abdomen. .1-6 mm. long, 

 1 ■?! mm, broad. 



Cejihalothorax longer than broad, pale yellow, smooth, glal)rous. Pars 

 ce])lialica moderateh' arched, thoracic grooxe fainth- definefl ; ocular area 

 broader than long, occupying the entire width of the cephalic segment ; 

 cly]ieus deep. Pars thoracica broad, moderately arched, radial grooves faintly 

 defined ; marginal band broad. F.yes disposed in two rows of four each, both 

 of which are strong!}' recurved: the anterior row is much the shorter, and 

 each eye is sejiarated from its neighbour l>v a space ecpial to rather more 

 than once its own in<li\idual diameter, and mounted u])on a small yellow 

 tubercle; the posterior row is the more strongly recurxed, anil each e\-e is 

 mounted upon a small greyish tulicrcle and ringed with \-eIlow ; the median 

 e}'es of this row are separated from each other li}' a space efiual to full_\- once 

 their indi\'idual diameter ; lateral exes widely separated. Legs yellowish- 

 green, armed with long black s]iines ; first and second ]5airs \-ery long. Rela- 

 tive lengths, 1 —2. 4. ,v Palpi short, similar in colour and armature to legs; 

 genital bulb large, rnund, ci>ni]>licated. Falces moderately long, arched, con- 

 colorous with cejihalothorax. Maxillae and labium straw-yellow. Sternum 



