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ON NEW SPECIES OF TASMANIAN AKANIED.E. 



Cephalothorax, chrome-yellow, suffused with a light-brown 

 on cephalic part; freckled with brown; lateral border deeper 

 tone ; hairs pale, very sparse ; length equals patella and tibia 

 of 4th leg; pars cephalica large, first half depressedly 

 convex, sides somewhat abrupt, roundly truncated, eye 

 eminence low; lateral index equals two-thirds of facial; 

 Olypem retreating, surpasses in depth diamater of a fore- 

 median eye ; pars thoracica oval, convex, fovea sub-oval, 

 caput and radial stria) tolerably strong; profile-contour 

 strongly arched, prominent at occiput, dips across fore-third 

 at an angle of 45deg. 



_ Eyes of tolerable and about equal size, on blackish-lake 

 rings ; posterior row slightly recurved ; centre-eyes divided 

 by three-fourths their diameter, rather more than their space 

 from laterals ; anterior row more distinctly recurved, median 

 pair less than their diameter and a half from each other, per- 

 ceptibly more than an eye's breadth from hind-centrals, 

 removed scarcely three-fourths their space from side eyes ; 

 laterals placed obliquely on separate lake-brown tubercular 

 eminences, somewhat less than their radius apart, tubercles 

 small, anterior strongest. 



Legs somewhat duller hue than cephalothorax, tibial and 

 metatarsal joints greenish shade ; hairs fine, black ; spines 

 slender, black ; 2 or 3 on femora ; patella? 1 ; about 6 on tibise 

 of I. and II., less on same article of two hind-pairs; 

 metatarsal joints apparently devoid of spines, except meta- 

 tarsi of III., which have 1 spine ; legs somewhat slight, 

 patellery and tibial joints cylindrical. 



Palpi and legs concolorous ; bristle-like spines rather 

 numerous on pars radialis and digitalis ; humeral joint equal 

 in length to cubital and radial together ; two latter articles as 

 long as digital joint. 



_ Falces chrome-yellow ; hairs black, sparse ; conical, base 

 gibbous, inclined forwards ; small, plano-convex, conical lobes 

 on outer side. 



Maxillce pale fulvus, base lightly suffused with olive brown,, 

 nearly as wide as long, dilated forwards, roundly pointed, 

 directed towards each other. 



Labium yellowish, fuscous shading; rather wider than 

 long, roundly pointed, one-half length of maxillte. 



8tumu?n fulvus, marbled with brown ; heart-shaped, 

 eminences opposite coxal joints. 



Abdomen broad oviform, projects over base of cephalothorax, 

 convex above ; ground colour dull lake-brown, suffused with 

 flecks; dorsum flecks dark creamy-colour, lobate, more or 

 less confluent; medial streak, normal colour, terminates at 

 posterior incline, displays four — probably in some examples 



