172 Transactions.— Zoology. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Adult female, length 114 lines, exclusive of falces. 
Cephalothoraz broad oval, truncate at both ends, posterior extremity 
much broader; 54 lines long, and 4 lines wide at the widest part; thoracic 
portion raised, convex, bare of hairs on top; head slightly rounded above ; 
clypeus very truncate; largely hairy around eyes and face; three slight 
thoracic segmental markings running down each side; indentation sunk, 
smooth; colour rich dark red-brown, with light-brown and greyish coarse 
hairs, and a narrow light-coloured continuous stripe along the lateral and 
posterior borders of shield, with the hairs immediately above it of a shade 
of darker brown. 
Eyes, 8, unequal in size, in two rows, (their position, etc., resembling 
those of the genus Tegennaria,) 4 anterior, smaller and equal in size, 4 pos- 
terior, the two central ones large, but the two corner ones largest, and more 
prominent and laterally inclined. 
Palpi moderately stout, 4 lines long, hairy, with a single large black 
spine at end of the radial joint; falces prominent, black, shining, and (with 
maxilla) bearing long shaggy hairs. 
Legs medium stout, colour rich dark red-brown, hairy with black hairs, 
increasing in hairiness towards the tips, and having a few scattered black 
spines, and two black hooks at the tips; core very large, smooth and 
shining in the gibbous parts; femora stout and but slightly hairy; two 
longitudinal rows of strong black spines on tibia and metatarsus below ; the 
joints white, with small black spines ; relative length of legs, 4 1 2 8; the 
fourth pair 14 lines long ; sternum red-brown, medium size, broad oval, 
almost flat, slightly hairy, hairs adpressed. 
Abdomen, 6 lines long, 4 lines wide, broad oval, hairy, convex above and 
higher than cephalothorax, the ground of a brownish colour, mottled or 
irrorated throughout, and very finely dotted with light yellow-brown ; two 
lines of light-brown circular spots equidistant, and five spots in each line, 
running down towards posterior end; spiracles large central, close under 
base of sternum ; spinners produced, long. 
As I found it impossible to describe wholly and minutely the falces, 
palpi, and buccal organs of these spiders, without breaking up my speci- 
mens and gumming their parts severally down, I forbore to do so, prefer- 
ring to leave those parts partly undescribed for the time, and so send my 
perfect and best specimens to England. 
No. 8. MacRoTHELE HUTTONI, Cambridge. 
This large spider is also from my garden, and is one of those I men- 
iioned as having been described by the Rev. O. P. Cambridge; and I merely 
bring it before you to exhibit it, and to say a few words respecting its habits 
and economy ; which, I believe, were unknown to its describer.* 
* For the full deseription, and a drawing with dissections of this spider, see Trans. 
N.Z. Inst., vol vi., p. 200. 
