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ON NEW SPECIES OP TASMANIAN ARANIED^I. 



By A. T. Urquhart, 

 Corresponding Member of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 



Fam. EPEIRIME. 

 Gen. Epeiea, Walck. 



Epeira Mortoni, sp. no v. Plate. Pig. ]. 



Femina. — Ceph. th., long, 4 - 8 ; broad, 4 ; facial index, 2. 

 Abd. ( long, 10 ; broad, 6 ; legs, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 19, 14, 17'5, 

 10 mm. 



Cephalotlwrax fulvus, greenisb tinge, lake-brown reflections 

 on cephalic part and lateral margins, fovea deeper shade ; 

 hairs white, silky, adpressed ; slightly surpasses tibia? of first 

 leg in length ; moderately depressed ; pars cephalica de- 

 pressedly convex, truncation visibly rounded, ocular eminence 

 slight; lateral index equals two-thirds of facial; depth of 

 clypeus scarcely equal to three-fourths diameter of an anterior 

 centre eye ; sides of pars thoracica well rounded ; fovea large, 

 sub-oval, longitudinal ; caput and radial strise slightly 

 defined; profile-contour rises from thoracic junction at an 

 angle of 30deg., slopes moderately across caput. 



Fore and hind row of eyes tolerably and somewhat evenly 

 recurved ; fore-centrals of equal size ; posterior, median-pair 

 posited obliquely on dark, oval, prominent spots, separated 

 by an interval equal to an eye's breadth and a half, scarcely 

 their space and one-half from laterals ; anterior centre eyes 

 visibly more distant from each other than they are from hind 

 pair, an interval rather exceeding their diameter ; their 

 space and a quarter from side eyes ; laterals about one-third 

 smaller than centrals, seated obliquely, more than half their 

 radius apart, on separate tubercular eminences. 



Legs fulvus, femora of two-first pairs reddish-brown 

 annuli reddish-fuscous ; distal rings on femoral joints ; 

 central and apical on tibiee and metatarsi ; second half of 

 tarsi shade off to dark brown ; hairs dark, somewhat sparse ; 

 spines brown or black, numerous, irregular. 



Palpi fulvus, fore-end of pars digitalis fuscous; hairs 

 light;" well spined; moderately long and slender. 



Falces brownish-yellow, fangs dark; conical, vertical, flatly 

 convex, length equals breadth of anterior row of eyes, their 

 space visibly surpasses it. 

 Maxillce fulvus, fuscous clouding ; length perceptibly ex- 



