COLLECTED IN DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 



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Family PiSAumuiE. 

 Group Doiomedeae. 

 Genus Dolomedes Latr. 

 DOLOMEDES WOLLASTONI, sp. n, (Text-fig. 37.) 

 One female. [Type of the species.) 



Cephalothorax olive-brown. A wide marginal fillet of silvery-white hair extends 

 the whole way from the sides of the clypeus to the rear end, and a narrow median line 

 of the same from the front-row of eyes to the rear end. On each side of this is a short 

 parallel line of similar hair extending to the base of the cephalic part, and the side 

 depressions are also similarly marked. 



The mandibles are yellow-brown, with long yellow-brown bristly hair on the basal 



Text-figure 37. 



Dolomedes wollasioni, na,t. size. a. E3'es. h. Epigyne. 



half and white hair at the anterior end. The maxillae, lip, and sternum are pale yellow- 

 brown with long pale yellowish hair. 



The legs are similarly coloured, with darker yellow-brown hair and silvery-white hair 

 in patches on the outer sides. 



The abdomen is dark yellow-brown on the upperside, with four short, longitudinal, 

 silvery-white hair-streaks at the basal end. Bound the sides is a broad white-haired 

 fillet extending from the base to the spinnerets. The underside is paler, with nearly 

 white hair. The spinnerets are yellow-brown, and the epigyne the same, with two 

 nearly black streaks across it. 



The cephalothorax is one-fifth longer than broad, convex, narrowed in front, rounded 

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