448 ME. H. E. HOGG ON SPIDERS 



posteriorly. This portion is twice as long as tlie bulbous base, hollowed on the upper- 

 side with a narrow raised margin, slightly narrowing anteriorly, where it ends in a 

 rounded point. On each side of the bulbous base is an outwardly curving columnar 

 support with a dark line along it, the median portion being also convex. The whole 

 of this portion, as broad as it is long, springs from a strongly convex transverse 

 protuberance, broadest in the middle and tapering to the pulmonary apertures. 



The superior tarsal claws have about seven pectinations, none on the inferior. 



The tibial joint of the palpi is twice as long as the patellar, with five or six 

 pectinations on the claw. On the anterior end of the femur are some short 

 curved spines. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — • 



Long. Broad. 



2}j in front. 



Cephalothorax 5-^ 



Abdomen 12 11 



Mandibles 2^ — 



Trochanter Patella Metatarsus 



Coxa. & femiir. & tibia. & tarsus. 



Legs 1. 2 7 7 7 = 23 



2. 2 7 6-^ 6i = 22 



3. 1| 5 3J 4 = 14, 



4. 2 7 51 6 = 20L 

 Palpi 1 2 2^ 2 = 71 



This species is somewhat near A. ferruginea Thor. and A. pfeifferi Thor. ; it differs 

 from both in the pronounced pattern on the back and in having the side eyes nearer 

 to the median than in either. The epigyne agrees closely with Thorell's description 

 of that of the latter, but the scape is longer in proportion to its breadth than in the 

 former. I am unable to discover any species recorded from anywhere near New 

 Guinea in which the epigyne, eyes, and shape of abdomen accord with this, and 

 I therefore consider it to represent a new species. 



Araneus granti. (Text-fig. 26.) 

 Araneus granti Hogg, Abstract P. Z. S. 1914, p. 57 (Nov. 17). 



One female. {Tfjpe of the species.) 



The cephalothorax is black-brown all over, covered with long silvery-white hairs 

 and white upstanding bristles. The mandibles black-brown, fangs red-brown at the 

 anterior half. Lip and maxillse black-brown, pale yellow-brown at the margins, with 

 fringes of the same colour. The sternum is yellow over the whole central area, but 

 black-brown round the side margins, with yellowish-white hair. The coxae are dark 



