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merely ranging them round next to the glass, as recommended when the 
spiders are set out in a natural posture ; any tube must therefore, in this case, 
be taken out before the contents can be examined. The numbers and names, 
however, of the spiders contained in the bottle are known at a glance, by being 
written at length on a paper, and gummed upon one side of the bottle, and so, 
being turned outwards on the shelf, it is legible without any necessity of 
handling. The sizes of the test-tubes and outer bottles required will vary. 
I am now using (and finding more handy and convenient than any others of 
the latter) strong, wide-mouthed phials (corked, but of course glass-stoppered 
ones would be preferable, though much more costly) of the following sizes :— 
oz, loz., 20z, and 4oz.; these are kept in stock by most chemists-bottle 
dealers, and may be had at a very reasonable price. The tubes vary from an 
inch and a half long, and from the size of a large straw mote to three inches 
long, and these are not too large to go into the mouths of the 202. and 4oz. 
bottles, but are yet large enough to contain the largest tropical spiders, except 
the comparatively few giants of the families Theraphosides, Thomisides, and 
Epeirides ; these latter may be put into the bottles without the intervention 
of any tube. When thus preserved, and arranged on narrow shelves, accord- 
ing to their systematic position, a collection of spiders is by no means an 
unsightly object, and its contents are almost as easily got at for reference and 
examination as the contents of most insect cabinets. 
Description of the two Spiders, Macrothele huttonii, sp. n., and Cambridgea 
fasciata, L. Koch, selected to illustrate the structural details given in the 
foregoing pages. 
Family THERAPHOSIDES. 
Sub-family Theraphosine. 
Genus Macrothele, Auss. 
Diplura, Koch ad part. 
M. HUTTONII, sp. nov. 
(Plate VL, figs. 14—19.) 
I have been induced to describe and figure here the above species 
(M. huttonii) as not only illustrating well the different structural points of 
spiders noted in the foregoing pages, but also as itself being a spider of an 
entirely different type of form and structure from C. fasciata (described post). 
It is, as far as I can ascertain, of an undescribed species, and it is with much 
pleasure that I have connected it with the name of Capt. Hutton, from whom 
I received it, and to whom I am so deeply indebted for many other valuable 
and interesting examples of New Zealand spiders. 
The following is a detailed description of M. Auttonii :— 
Adult male ; length, 8:5 lines. 
