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ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN ARANIEDJ5. 



on metatarsi ; tarsi shade off rapidly into reddish-fuscous ; 

 hairs pale-yellow ; spines yellowish, dark base ; fine ; tibial 

 shorter than transverse diameter of article, numerous; tibiae of 

 I. and II. have on inferior side a double row of 5, 5 ; metatarsi 

 4, 3 ; legs moderately strong ; II. and IV. of about equal length ; 

 patellae and tibiae compressed, grooves slight ; superior tarsal 

 claws — 1st pair, 9 comb teeth ; inferior claw 2 points. 



Palpi colour and armature of legs ; length, 4-6 mm. ; palpal 

 claw well curved, 10 comb teeth, 2 basal small. 



Falces fulvus, glossy, apices brownish; conical, base in front 

 gibbous, vertical, slightly exceed pars digitalis of palpus in 

 length, as stout as the femur of a first leg ; double row of 

 black teeth, outer 4, inner 3. 



Maxillce greenish-yellow, centre clouded with light-brown, 

 rather longer than broad, enlarged forwards, obtusely pointed, 

 inclined towards each other. 



Labium pale greenish-yellow, base fuscous, wider than long, 

 triangular. 



Sturnum light-brown, passing into dark chestnut-brown on 

 margins, spotted ; cordate, eminences opposite eoxal joints. 



Abdomen sub-triangular, base truncated, depressed, humeral 

 tubercleswell developed, conical apices brownish, semi-pellucid, 

 project upwards and somewhat backwards ; posterior tubercle 

 stout, conical, prominent wrinkle or tubercle beneath ; lateral 

 borders rugose ; hairs somewhat sparse, appressed, whitish, 

 few pale yellow, dark based, short bristles project from fuscous 

 spots ; integument pale brownish stone-colour ; folium tapers 

 from fore-tubercles to posterior tubercle, defined by a light 

 fuscous, sinuating line ; median streak similar shade ; three 

 pair of blue-black impressed spots, two anterior pairs largest, 

 form a trapezoid narrowest in front ; light fuscous, nearly 

 vertical, bands on lateral margins. Corpus vulvm fulvus, 

 somewhat triangular, convex elevation, wrinkles transverse, 

 well-defined ; broad and concave in front, margins tumid ; 

 projecting from within the dark concavity is a yellowish, 

 rather wide septum, as broad at truncated apex as long. 



Several examples. A. M. 



Epeira singulara, sp. nov. Plate. Fig. 2. 



Femina. — Ceph. th., long, 4 ; broad, 3 - 4 ; facial index, 2. 

 Abd., long, 67 ; broad, 6. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 13, 12, 11, 8 mm. 



Cephalothorax bright brownish-lake, clouded about caput 

 and lateral margins with blackish-lake; hairs somewhat sparse, 

 silky white and dark, former predominate on thoracic part ; 

 pars cephalica flatly-convex, dips abruptly into depression on 

 posterior incline of thorax ; truncation perceptibly rounded, 

 ocular elevation fairly developed, lateral index equals space 



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