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14. On some Now Zealand Spiders. 

 ByH. R. Hogg, M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Received November 11, 1910: Head February 7, 1911. J 



(Text-figures 92-96.) 



Prof. Chas. Chilton, of Christchurch, New Zealand, suggested 

 to his students that they should in the vacation collect specimens 

 at various points over the Noi'th and South Islands, wherever 

 their homes were situated. The result is that from some half- 

 dozen localities specimens of spiders were brought in within the 

 space of a few weeks, and these he has kindly sent to me. 



New Zealand for a considerable period has been rather well 

 worked from a zoological point of view, and its spider fauna 

 described not only by Dr. Koch but by local men such as 

 Messrs. Urquhart and Goyen. It is therefore not a little re- 

 markable to find in the small collection here described so large 

 a pi'oportion of new species, and, moreover, the same new species, 

 in one case from three, and another from two widely separated 

 localities at the same time. The thirty specimens comprise no 

 less than twelve species of eleven genera. Of the species, four 

 are new, and one a local variety of an Australian species not 

 hitherto recorded from New Zealand. They were collected mostly 

 from Ruakura and Wellington, in the North Island, by Miss B. 

 D. Cross, and one by Mr. E. P. Turner from the summit of 

 Mt. Ngauruhoe shortly after an eruption. The latter appears 

 to have minute particles of volcanic dust adhering to it. 



The species from the South Island were taken by Messi's. 

 R. N. Hawkes and G. M. Thomson, and by Prof . Chilton himself . 



On Mt. Peel, in the Province of Canterbury, Mr. Hawkes 

 picked up at random a male Uliodon of a new species, a new 

 species of Ar-gocteuus, a male of Cainhridgea.antipodiana (with 

 its unique form of stridulatory organ), and three females of For- 

 rhothele antiiJodiana Walck., a new locality for the two latter 

 species. 



In 1905 (Zool. Jahrb. xxi. pt. 4, 1905) M. Simon formed a genus 

 Mynoylenes for a spider (J/, iiisolens) from the Chatham Islands, 

 500 miles east of New Zealand, a,nd I was recently able to describe 

 another species (Reports Phil. Inst, of Canterbury, N. Z., 1909, 

 vol. i. p. 165) from the Sub- Antarctic Auckland and Campbell 

 Islands, south of New Zealand, but the genus had not so far been 

 recorded from New Zealand itself. Miss Cross, Prof. Chilton, and 

 Mr. Turner send specimens, one each from separate localities: — 

 Ruakura and Mt. Ngauruhoe in the North, and Picton m tiie 

 South Island. These, although differing in size, are all adult and 

 appear to be similar. I have taken them to be the same species. 



Hemicloea rogenJioferi L. Koch and Araneus verrucosus Walck., 

 from Ruakin^a, are among the few spiders hitherto known to 

 be common to both New Zealand and Australia. ; and Tetragnatha 



