1901.J 



AUSTEALIAN SPIDERS. 



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spinnerets short, stout and tapering; first joint longest, third quite 

 short and hemispherical. 

 Type, Maoriana dendyi. 



Maoriana dendyi, n. sp. (Text-fig. 25.) 



Cephalothoras, mandibles, legs, and palpi bright yellow-brown, 

 with a few pale yellowish hairs on the cephalothoras, trochanter, 

 and femur, darkening into brown and thicker on the remainder 

 of the leg. Two longitudinal belts of yellowish-brown bristles on 

 the face of the falx are separated by bare spaces. The teeth of 

 the rastellum are black. The sternum, coxse, lip, and maxillse are 

 dull orange, furnished \^'ith brown bristles springing from round 



Text-fig. 25. 



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Maoriana dendyi. a. Eyes. b. Profile (nat. size). 

 c. Lip and sternum, showing sigillte. 



roots ; the fringes are pinkish yellow. The fangs dark red, almost 

 black at base. The abdomen is black above with yellow spots in 

 transverse bands ; underneath black irregularly mottled with 

 yellow. Spinnerets, gill-covers, and anterior section above genital 

 aperture yellow-brown; a few long thin spiues on both upper and 

 under side of abdomen, and short yellow hairs. 



The thoracic part of the cephalothorax is flat, rounded at sides 

 and narrowed at rear ; the cephalic part rises rather abruptly from 



