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side of falx-sheath, a thick fringe on outer, and a median row of 

 6 or 7 quite small teeth at loAver end. 



The lip is broader than long, slightly hollowed in front, with a 

 moderate number of dark brown short club-shaped spines in front. 

 The latter also occur on inner lower corner of maxillfe ; on the 

 upper inner corner is a rounded apophysis. Light yellow-bi^own 

 upstanding hair on both maxillte and lip. 



Sternum longer than broad, hollowed in front and pointed at 

 rear end. Two moderately large sigillfe in hollow by lip, and 

 three smaller each side nearly marginal. 



The abdomen is oval. The superior spinnei^ets two-thirds the 

 length of metatarsus of fourth pair of legs, tapering and rather 

 divergent; the third pair of spinnerets being situated in a line 

 with them just at their base, and the median pair lying between 

 them. 



The first, second, and third pairs of legs are of equal length. 

 Eight or nine small teeth lie slopingly across the superior claws ; 

 inferior claws without teeth. 



There are no scopula on any of the legs in the female. 



This would appear to differ from H. Jiochstetteri Ausserer, besides 

 being a good deal larger, in having the front middle eyes their 

 diameter apart but less than half that distance from the side 

 eyes, instead of the same distance. The row is straight instead of 

 procurved. The lip is broader than long instead of same breadth. 

 The superior spinnerets are onlj^ two-thirds the length of meta- 

 ijai'sus iv. instead of [sec. Koch) the same length. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are : — 



Cephalothorax 



Abdomen 



Mandibles . . . 



Legs 1. 



9 



Palpi 



Superior spinnei 



There are two females from Waiuku, Auckland, IST. Z., sent by 

 the Rev. W. H. AYebster, after whom I have named them. 



The following are from a small collection of Spiders forwarded 

 to the British Museum, Nat. Hist. Dept., by the late Capt. Hutton 

 and Mr. C. H. Tripp from Pitt Island, one of the Chatham group, 

 some 500 miles east of New Zealand. 



