342 MR. H. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. [Apr. 7, 



The legs are stout with scopula on all the tarsi and metatarsi, 

 on the under side of which latter are long powerful spines. There 

 is one spine on tibia iv. above, none on the others. The 

 rather long superior claws have about 7 short pectinations. The 

 inferior claw is bare. 



The palpi have tibial joint slightly longer than the patella and 

 the anterior end of the distal joint is rather club-shaped. 



The measurements of the female (in millimetres) are as follows. 

 The male is rather smaller. 



Long. Broad. 



5 in front. 



Oephalothorax ... 13^ i ini 



'3 



Abdomen 14^ 10 



Mandibles 6" 



Pat. & Metat. 



Coxa. Tr. & fem. tib. & tars. 



[5*71 



Legs 1. 4| 11 \13 12 = 401 



2. M 10| 12i 11| = 39~ 



3. 4 10 12~ 11 = 37 



4. U 13 14 14 = 45| 

 Palpi 2i 6 5 5 = 18i 



There are nine females and seven males (nearly all immature) 

 from Pitt Island (Chatham Islands). 



I have named the species after the late Capt. Hvitton of Christ- 

 church, who forwarded these specimens to England. 



DOLOMEDES TRIPPI, Sp. n. 



The oephalothorax is dark yellow-brown with pale yellow down- 

 lying hair. In the female there are lateral longitudinal stripes 

 between the median line and the margin but none at the margin. 

 The eyes are bright topaz-yellow. 



The mandibles are black-brown with thin upstanding brown 

 hair and yellow-brown fringes. The lip and maxillae are lighter 

 brown with brown upstanding hairs ; the sternum paler with 

 yellowish-brown hair. 



The legs and palpi are lighter brown, with upstanding brown 

 and downlying pale yellow-brown hairs. 



The abdomen above is thickly covered with smooth downlying 

 pale yellow-brown hair mottled with dark grey. The sides are 

 darker, and a long narrow median space underneath is darker 

 still. 



The head part of the cephalothorax is rather jDrominent. 



The clypeus is not quite so broad as the two front median eyes 

 and the space between them, which latter is rather less than their 

 diameter. The side eyes are smaller and nearly close up to the 

 former. The eyes of the middle row are half as wide again as the 

 front median, being rather farther from them than the diameter 

 of the latter and the same distance from one another. 



