1908.] MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 337 



These leg measurements are correct ; they do not agree with 

 L. Koch's, but he did not have a specimen and does not give his 

 authority. 



Genus Hexathele Ausserer. 



Our knowledge of the small and little-known genus Hexathele, 

 whose sole habitat lies in Xew Zealand, has recently been added 

 to by two specimens from Auckland sent to the British Museum 

 by the Rev. W. H. Webster ; these and some others herein referred 

 to, by the courtesy of Mr. A. S. Hirst, in charge of the collection 

 of Arachnida, I have been able to examine. 



The want of precision in the descriptions of some of the known 

 specimens from different localities seemed at one tiine to render it 

 doubtful whether they were really diiferent from the type species 

 H. hochstetteri Auss., of which the locality is only known as jSTew 

 Zealand ; but, on revising those I have been able to see, with what 

 has been written about others, I think it may now be taken that 

 there are four separable species. Mr. Goyen's H. 2}etreii from 

 Otago is certainly very like the type species, but he specifies three 

 points which if correctly described will make his species good. 

 The male and female described by myself (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, 

 p. 276) from Pahiatua, Wellington, IST.Z., as R. hochstetteri, will 

 form another, and I now record it as Hexathele huttoni, sp. n., 

 after the sender the late Capt. Hutton. Those of Mr. Webstei-'s 

 are a fourth. They may be distinguished as follows : — 



a. Front median eyes one half their diameter apart. 



Cephalothorax longer than patella cum tibia iv H. huttoni, sp. n. 



h. Front median eyes their diameter apart. 



Cephalothorax not longer than patella cum tibia iv. 

 «!. Front median eyes the same distance from the front 

 side eyes as from one another. 

 a". Front and rear rows of eyes of equal length ; no spines 

 on femoral or patellar joints of legs [sec. L. Koch). 



Cephalothorax shorter than patella cum tibia iv. ... IL. hochstetteri KM'iS. 

 b". Rear row of eyes shorter than front row ; spines on 

 femoral and patellar joints of all legs (sec. Goj'en). 



Cephalothorax as long as patella cum tibia iv S. petreii Goyen. 



i'. Front median eyes not more than half their diameter 

 from side eyes of same row. Cephalothorax shorter 

 than patella cum tibia iv H. websteri, sp. n. 



The description of H. huttoni I have already furnished (loc. cit.) 

 and now append that of H. websteri. 



Hexathele websteri, sp. n. 



Cephalothorax pale yellow-brown, almost bare, with a few short 

 brown hairs at sides, slightly darker in the depi'essions and dark 

 brown between the eyes. The mandibles are red-brown with 

 long brown bristles on the inner side. Fangs black-brown. Pale 

 orange fringes. 



Maxillse, lip, sternum, legs, and palpi yellow-brown. Abdomen 

 yellow-brown, thinly covered with yellow-brown downlying hairs, 

 longer and darker brown anteriorly ; no discernible pattern. 

 Hau^s on under side darker yellow-grey, spinnerets the same, 



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