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ceeds their breadth, much dilated at extremity, roundly 

 pointed, inclined towards each other. 



Labium darker than maxillae ; nearly as long as wide, 

 conical. 



Sturnum mahogany-brown, cordate, moderately developed 

 eminences opposite coxse. 



Abdomen elongate-oviform, moderately convex above, sides 

 steep, longitudinally wrinkled ; base produced into two 

 sub-conical elevations ; deep lake-colour, with brownish 

 penetrative tints, markings creamy-white ; dorsal area dis- 

 plays two wide, sinuate, converging bands, extending from 

 the rounded face of basal humps to second half of dorsum, 

 enclosing a cunate area, where they are resolved into a series 

 of more or less defined spots terminating at anus ; side 

 stripes broad, sinuate, compressed somewhat forwards, in- 

 terrupted at the nearly free spots contiguous to base of 

 humps ; between the latter is a somewhat V-shaped mark, 

 extremities dilated, central spot ; this figure is followed by 

 several more or less pronounced dots on median line of 

 cunate area; the more strongly defined impressed spots 

 occur on fore-half ; anterior pair placed between humps, form 

 a quadrilateral figure with second pair, longer than broad ; 

 latter pair included in the transverse line of four spots, 

 which cause a constriction in each of the converging bands ; 

 central pair indent extremity of these bands, represent with 

 second pair a trapezoid narrowest in front ; lateral margins 

 clouded with lake-black, display on superior line and inter- 

 rupted border, resolved into spots ; ventral shield, olive-green, 

 passing into a brown on median line, margin, yellowish, 

 elongate oval ; vulva light greenish-yellow ; wrinkled, sub- 

 conical, prolonged into a remarkably long vermiform stylus, 

 yellowish, two fore-thirds blackish, somewhat incrassated and 

 depressed towards second half, sharply bent forwards, rapidly 

 curved backwards ; posterior face of corpus vulvae displays a 

 dark rimmed oval area, enclosed within is a fuscous plano- 

 convex spot. 



Var. a, Gephalathorax galbious, dorsum of caput and median 

 band reddish brown, lateral margin fuscous. Legs galbious, 

 femora of I. and II. suffused with brown-black, annuli broad, 

 fuscous. Colouration of palpi lighter than legs. Pattern and 

 colours of abdomen do not differ from type-form, except that 

 the lake approximates more or less to a deep brownish-purple. 

 I have much pleasure in naming this handsome species 

 after Mr. Alex. Morton, Curator of the Tasmanian Museum, 

 to whom I am indebted for a large collection of spiders. 



Hjpeira ventriosa, sp. nov. 

 Femina. — Ceph. th., long, 5'7 ; wide, 45. 

 wide, 11; legs, 1, 2—4, 3 = 22, 20, 13 mm. 



Abd., long, 12 ; 



