84 T'ransactions.—Z oology. 
The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and are clothed with hairs and 
bristles. 
The falees are strong, conical, vertical, divergent at their extremities ; 
armed with a short double row of teeth. 
The maville are a broad oval, slightly inclined towards the lip, which is 
pointed, broader than long; these parts have a duller yellow hue than the 
falces. 
The sternum is cordate, brown, and stamped with a yellow seven-lobed 
embossed mark. 
The abdomen is ovate-lanceolate, of a slightly mottled creamy brown 
colour, margined—as far as the base of the tail-like extremity—with two 
broad bands of soft light silky hairs; beneath these bands there are a 
series of longitudinal undulating wrinkles; a narrow irregular brown 
medial line runs between the eight impressed spots. From the posterior 
pair of spots a series of four creamy brown longitudinal streaks extend 
along the superior surface of the tail; this part, measured from the poste- - 
rior pair of spinners, is 5 mm. in length; it is shaded with brown and yel- 
low-brown tints, furnished with fine erect hairs, and encircled with closely- 
set wrinkles ; devoid of terminal tubercles. The ventral surface has a 
dark brownish hue; two creamy-coloured bands extend from the branchial 
opercula as far as the posterior spinnerets. The vulva consists of a long, 
thick, pendulous yellow-brown process, directed backwards, with an orifice 
at its extremity. 
This species—which I have placed provisionally amongst the Epeira— 
appears to be intermediate between that genus and Arachnura; resembling 
the former in having spines on the 9-4 pairs of legs, and showing its 
affinities to the latter genus by its eross-ringed tail; which is stouter and 
less flexible than that of the type form. 
It affects shrubs, and the lower parts of furze hedges. 
Tairua, T. Broun; Karaka, Auckland, A.T.U. 
Genus Arachnura, Vinson. 
Arachnura longicauda, sp. n. PI. ix., fig. 2. 
Length of mature female—body extended, 11-16 mm. ; length of cephalo- 
thorax, 2} mm.; breadth, 2 mm.; breadth of abdomen, 8 mm. ; length of tail 
from posterior pair of spinners, 5—7 mm. Length of adult male, 13-2 mm. 
Female.—The cephalothoraz is oval, moderately convex, constricted ante- 
riorly, a glossy dark straw colour, finely rugulose, furnished with a few white 
hairs; the margins are edged and speckled with dark olive-green, and two 
narrow—sometimes blending into one—stripes of a similar shade extend 
along the medial line; a large pale straw-coloured, semi-oval, convex lobe, with 
a faint longitudinal sulcus, extends from the base to the centre of the thorax, 
