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FROM THE MONTEBELLO ISLANDS, 73 
Subfamily ARGIOPIN», 
Group ARGIOPER. 
Genus ArGiorEe Aud. 
ARGIOPE TRIFASCIATA Forskal. 
IS emellies, 125 1D. Wil, ah ale Isl 
Widely spread over Northern Australia, the Pacific Islands, 
and many other tropical and subtropical parts of the world. 
ARGIOPE HAYNESI, sp.n. (PI. I. fig. 3.) 
This species, of which Mr. Haynes sent 10 females, is closely 
related to L. Koch’s A. protensa and A. syrmatica, though ib 
differs from them both more than they do from one another, and 
I have therefore named it as new. 
The cephalothorax is yellowish grey, thickly covered with 
smooth silvery grey hairs all over the thoracic part, and in a 
median longitudinal area between the eyes and at the sides of 
the thoracic part the darker under coloration shows through, but 
there are no definite dark longitudinal lines as in protensa and 
syrmatica. 
The mandibles are dark grey at the base and on the outer 
sides, rather bright yellow on the inner and anterior portions. 
The fangs red-brown at base and pale red forward. ‘The lip and 
maxillz are bright yellow on the upper half, brown below. The 
sternum is black-brown, with fine downlying grey hairs at the 
sides, and a thickly haired yellowish-white median area reaching 
the whole length. 
The abdomen is silvery white with fine white hairs on the 
upper side; a narrow black longitudinal line, running from the 
base to rather more than halfway, with two transverse lines at 
the upper end, like a Russian cross. There are no longitudinal 
lines at the posterior end. The base of the under side is yellow 
at the sides and dark grey*in the middle. The dark area is 
continued in a broad median stripe to the spinnerets, bordered on 
each side by a white network-patterned area, which passes behind 
the spinnerets, the dark stripe being continued to the posterior 
end, asin A. protensa, but not in A. syrmatica. The sides are 
dark grey with pale yellow longitudinal lines. 
The legs are darkish yellow, with long brown spines and grey 
hairs. The anterior half of the metatarsus and the whole of the 
tarsus of all legs have short brown bristly hairs. The front of 
the patella and base of the tibia is dark brown. Near the anterior 
end of the tibia is a brown ring, and the anterior end of same 
and base of metatarsus are likewise covered by a brown spot. The 
under side of femur 1 is dark grey. 
The cephalothorax, one-third longer than broad, is rounded at 
the sides, the cephalic part, narrow and short, being divided by 
well-marked depressions from the thoracic. It does not reach 
to the median fovea, which is short and recurved. The whole 
