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middle and beyond, while the movable finger has eight and nine. Anteriorly 

 the immovable finger bears tv\^o spots behind the two basal tactile hairs and 

 five in an irregular longitudinal row from the basal tactile hairs to somewhat 

 behind the fourth hair, which is placed in the terminal third, while the 

 movable has two just beyond the base. Posteriorly the immovable finger 

 bears five " spots," and the movable four, arranged as shown in PI. 8. fig. 2. 

 At the base of the hand ventrally, occupying an area as broad as one-third 

 of the hand and as long as one-fourth of its length, a large number (about 

 100) of the usual " spots " standing near to each other are observed (text- 

 fig., p. 51). 



Coxce. — The second and the third pair are elongated and fairly distinctly 

 widened out towards the extremity ; the fourth pair are very elongated as 

 well as of a somewhat trapezoidal shape, being scarcely enlarged towards 

 the end, and have the hinder margin fairly well separated from the inner, 

 which is scarcely half its length. 



Legs. — The proximal joints are distinctly granular. The short hairs are 

 dorsally curved and slightly clavate^ while those of the ventral side are obtuse 

 and dentated, only a few being simple. The tarsal tactile hairs as well as the 

 long and slender ones of the trochanters and trochantins are wanting. The 

 legs are short and clumsy, with the trochantin of the first pair of legs much 

 deeper than the femur proper, while the tibia is 1*2 as long as the tarsus, 

 which is 3" 3 as long as deep ; the femur of the fourth pair of legs is almost 

 2*7 as long as deep, 1*3 as long as the tibia, and I'l lower than the tarsus is 

 long. 



Colour.— The palps yellowish brown, while the cephalothorax and the 

 abdomen are darker brown in this very contracted specimen. 



Measureinents. — Cephalothorax 0"920 (0*966); abdomen 1*380 (1*265) mm. 



Palps : trochanter 0*460 (0*310); femur 0*897 (0*285); tibia 0*805 (0*290); 

 hand 0*828 (0*345), depth 0*322 ; finger 0*647 mm. 



Leg I. : femur 0-494 (0*190), trochantin 0*091 (0*198); tibia 0*350 (0*114); 

 tarsus 0-281 (0*084) mm. 



Leg IV. : femur 0*646 (0*243) ; tibia 0*494 (0*129) ; tarsus 0*350 (0*095) 

 mm. 



Variation. — Besides the described male I have examined a very poorly- 

 preserved specimen, probably a female, which differed in the following- 

 structures, namely, the much more slender palps, with femur 3*5 as long as 

 wide, &c. The most important difference, which is certainly one of sexual 

 value, is that the area adorned with " spots ' ' at the base of the hand is 

 wanting ; number of "spots" of the fingers, which only gape a little when 

 closed, is, anteriorly, in the immovable finger very similar to that of the 

 male, but the movable has five in a longitudinal row. 



Material. — Of this species I have examined the two above-mentioned speci- 

 mens as well as three pale very small ones, collected in Taieri, New Zealand. 



