CampBripGE.—On a new Species of Trapdoor Spider. 287 
The legs are longer, but their general armature is similar. The tarsal 
claws, however, are quite differently denticulated, four small teeth on the 
under side of the anterior half being followed by two much longer curved 
ones and another small one. The tibim of the first pair are also pro- 
portionately longer and stronger, and have near their fore extremity, on 
the inner side, two nearly black protuberances, of which the hinder one is 
much the largest and rather of a curved form; the extremities of these 
protuberances are slightly denticulated, and the metatarsi of the same pair 
of legs are curved in a sinuous form. The palpi are rather long, and the 
radial joint is abnormally large and tumid, being of a nearly oval form; 
rather underneath on the outer side is a strong ridge-like protuberance, 
armed with numerous short tooth-like black spines; and immediately in 
front of this is a corresponding depression, of which the upper edge is 
furnished with some very minute black denticular spines; the digital joint 
is not very large; its margins are dark red-brown and somewhat corneous, 
and its fore extremity is strongly emarginate, with a largish lobe on the 
inner side and some strongish spines and bristles. The palpal organs con- 
sist of a nearly globular but rather flattened corneous lobe prolonged into a 
long curved tapering process, whose extreme point is rather twisted but not 
very sharp. When at rest, this process extends backwards, reaching to 
about two-thirds of the length of the radial joint, the point however having 
a strong outward direction. The abdomen is small, of a narrow oval form, 
but strongly convex above; its markings are similar to those of the female, 
though the spots forming them are far less confluent, and therefore the 
abdomen has a more spotty appearance. 
A single example of the male was received (with two females) fum 
Captain Hutton, in 1875, in some bottles of various other spiders, labelled 
‘t Oamaru,” and I feel no doubt but that it is of the same species as the 
two females mentioned. 
Description oF PrarE X. 
Fig. 1. Nemesia gilliesii (female): a, spider a little enlarged; c, ditto in 
profile; d, eyes from behind; k, extremity of tarsus of right leg of 
fourth pair of legs from outer side, showing tarsal claws; l, natural 
length of spider. 
Fig. 2. Nemesia gilliesii (male): b, spider enlarged; g, cephalo-thorax 
and falces in profile; f, right palpus from outer side; m, extremity 
of tarsus of right leg of fourth pair of legs from outer side, showing 
the tarsal claws ; ^, natural length of spider. 
