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ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMA.NIAN AEANIEDiE. 



obtuse-conical, project upwards and outwards ; posterior 

 tubercles, 5 ; first row slightly developed ; tubercle of second 

 row most prominent ; clothed with short copper-coloured and 

 white hairs ; integument has a soft velvety appearance, 

 brownish-fawn colour, speckled with light-brown, largest and 

 scarcest spots deepest hue ; folium tapers from humeral 

 tubercles to spinners ; margins sinuate, fuscous ; flesh 

 colour of tubercles encroaches into the normal fawn-colour ; 

 in line with eminences is a centrally-broken fuscous, oblong, 

 transverse mark, connected by a short band with a greenish, 

 ill-defined bar, surpassing the former in length ; these marks 

 occur between first and second pair of impressed spots ; base 

 of folium angular, defined by dark shading ; at constriction, 

 of folium on posterior side of second pair of spots is a 

 broken cross-bar ; second occurs below third pair of im- 

 pressed spots ; posterior two-thirds of compressed portion 

 of folium obliterated by a remarkable, large, sinuatod, brass- 

 coloured patch, metallic reflections, which curves round, 

 suffusing almost all the right side of abdomen ; ventral sur- 

 face dull brown, lake tinge, fuscous clouding ; shield fuscous. 

 Corpus vulvas, deep orange, costse passing into red chestnut, 

 scapus similar tints ; stylus lemon-yellow ; corpus trapezoidal 

 nearly as wide at base as long, longitudinally depressed, 

 laterally bounded by deep, projecting costs, increasing 

 somewhat in width towards, and revolute above the rinia 

 genitalis ; scapus vulva curves over base of corpus, three- 

 fourths its length, elongate-oval, transversely wrinkled, 

 lateral border wide, tapers at fore-end, incurvate ; apex of 

 scapus projects rather beyond base of stylus ; latter strongly 

 segmented, base stout, second half tapers rapidly, about 

 three-fourths length of scapus. 



Only a single example of this handsome species was con- 

 tained in Mr. Morton's collection; probably the remarkable 

 irregular metallic markings on the abdomen are unique. 



Var. a. — Colouration of cepthalothorax and legs resemble 

 type-form. Abdomen grayish-fawn colour, markings deeper 

 tone ; pattern does not differ essentially from type-form. 



Two specimens. A.M. 



JSfeira viridula, sp. nov. 



Femina. — Ceph. th., long., 2'5 ; broad, 1*8 ; facial index, 1. 

 Abd., long., 4 ; broad 3"5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3. = 7-5, 6-5, 6, 4 mm. 



Cephalothorax light brown, fuscous clouding; fairly clothed 

 with whitish hairs ; clathrate ; pars cephalica moderately 

 convex, roundly truncated, ocular elevation prominent ; 

 clypeus in height visibly less than diameter of a fore centre 

 eye ; pars thoracica broad-ovate, convex ; posterior incline 

 depressed ; fovea sub-oval, shallow, radial stria3 well defined, 



