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^ TERRA NOVA" EXPEDITION. 



A non-adult female of this widely-spread species was found in the boat on its 

 return to the ship. The upper side of the abdomen is a plain yellowish grey, but in 

 other respects the eyes and the pattern of the underside of the abdomen seem to 

 indicate the above species. ^4. trifasciata has been recorded from Africa, the Canaries, 

 St. Helena, Chili, etc., as well as from Asia, Polynesia, Australia, etc. ; in fact, all 

 round the globe. 



Geoup ARANEAE. 



Genus ARANEUS, Clerck. 



Araneiis, C. Clerck, Svenska Spindlar, etc., 1757, p. 22. 

 Aranea, P. A. Latreille, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., XXIV, 1804, p. 135. 

 Epeira, C. A. Walckenaer, Tabl. Aran., 1805, p. 53 ; et auctt. 

 Araneus, E. Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign., Vol. I, 1895, p. 829. 



Fm. 1 . — Araneus triniiatis, sp. nov. a, Female, X 2 ; &, ventral surface of abdomen ; 

 c, dorsal view of eyes ; d, epigyne. 



5. Araneus trinitatis, sp. nov. 



Female. — The cephalothorax is greyish yellow ; a curved brown transverse streak 

 reachino- from the middle of the cephalic part to the side depressions (which are also 

 brown) forms with the latter a broad ring. The moderately fine forwardly-pointing 

 hair is yellowish grey. A deep longitudinal fovea divides the whole of the thoracic 

 part. The mandibles are yellow with long pale yellow bristly hair. The lip and 

 maxillae are brown with broad yellow margins and pink fringes. The sternum is 

 dark yellow-brown at the sides, paler in the middle, with long upstanding yellowish 

 grey hair. The legs have the coxae yellow, the basal half of femora I and II the same, 

 and the anterior half browu. In III and IV this joint is wholly yellow, the other 

 joints yellow ringed with brown or dark grey. The abdomen above is black-brown, 

 mottled all over with yellow, and on either shoulder is a more prominently brown spot. 

 On the underside it is similarly black and yellow, with paler patches on a median 



