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OJSr AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 



[June 4, 



Measurements in inilllmetres. 

 Female. 



Cephalothorax 



Abdomen 



Superior spinnerets 3, 2, 3 



Long. 

 14 



Broad. 



9 



11 



8. 



Legs 



Palpi 



1. 



2. 

 3. 



4. 



Ooxa. 

 5 



4i 



4* 



4| 



Tr. & fern. 

 9 



8A 

 7" 

 9 

 6 



Pat. & 

 tib. 



8 

 7 

 9 

 6 



Metafc. & 

 tars. 



10 

 4 



= 31 



= 29 



= 26i 



= 32| 



= 20i 



Long. 

 lOi 

 111 



Male. 



Broad. 

 9 



n 



Cephalothorax 



Abdomen . . 



Spinnerets 1st pair 3, 2, 3 = 8 ; 2nd pair 2; 3rd pair 1, 



Distance apart „ 3 ; ,, 2 ; „ 4. 



Legs 



Palpi 



1. 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 



3; 



Coxa. 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 4 

 4 



Tr. & fem. 

 9 



7 



Pat. & 

 tib. 



H 

 9 



8i 



9i 



7 



Metat. & 



tars. 



9i 



Qi 



11 



12 



2 . 



33J 



313 



32 



35 



20 



Hexathele peteeii Goyen. 



H.petreii P. Goyen, Proc. N. Z. Inst. vol. xix. (1886) p. 207. 



H. petrerii, A. T. IJrquhart, ibid, vol, xxiv. (1891) p. 221. 



Pemale found by and oamed after D. Petrie, Esq. ; locality Otago. 



Total length 20 mm. (sec. Groyen). 



Abdomen (overhanging ceph.) 12 mm. long. 



Mr. Goyen makes no mention of how his species differs from 

 the type species. Except a discrepancy in the eyes I can find no 

 difference in the descriptions of these two species. 



Ausserer says of the genus, " eyes as in JSfemesia," i.e. front row 

 procurved, rear row recurved. Lateral eyes oval. 



Mr. Goyen says, "anterior row bent backward and the posterior 

 forward." If this is meant in the German sense, his description 

 tallies with. H. JwchsteUeri ; if be means recurved and procurved 

 respectively, it must be something very different from the genus 

 Hexathele of Dr. Ausserer. 



Note. — In a former paper (Proceedings Eoyal Society of Victoria, 

 August 1900), I gave the name Hylobius to a new genus of the 

 family Dictynid*. I now find that it has been previously applied 



