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side; the digital joint is oviform, blackish, convex and hairy externally ; 
the palpal organs are not very complex, there is à prominent lobe near the 
base, and a tooth-like projection at the anterior extremity. 
In December the females commence fabricating their cocoons ; they are 
of a plano-convex figure, 8 mm. in diameter; composed of a fine but very 
compact texture ; white when newly constructed, containing about eighty 
spherical eggs, not agglutinated together. They are attached by their plane 
surface to bark, etc. The female usually remains upon or near the cocoon. 
These active little spiders are numerous about low herbage growing on 
sunny banks; they spring actively from leaf to leaf, and appear sociable in 
their habits. 
Karaka, Auckland, A.T.U. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES IX.—XI. 
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LATE IX. 
Fig. 1. Epeira attenuata, sp.n., female; a, profile of vulva; b, sternum; c, natural 
length of spider. 
. Arachnura longicauda, sp. n., female; a, natural length. 
. Arachnura trilobata, sp.n.; a, female; b, male; c, profile of female with legs 
and palpi truncated ; d, vulva; e, palpus of male in two positions; f, var. a., 
nov., drawn with tail eurled up. 
Fig. 4. Thlaosoma olivacea, sp. n., female; a, profile of female with legs truncated; b, 
eyes in front and rather beneath; c, natural length and breadth. 
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Fig. 5. Epeira brounii, sp. n. ; 4, female; b, male; c, profile of vulva; d, palpus of male 
in two positions. The second pair of male legs are drawn a little out of their 
natural position to show the tumid tibie; e, natural length. 
. Argyrodes conus, Sp. D., male; a, palpus in two positions; b, vulva of female, 
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7. Sparassus angularis, sp. n., female; a, vulva. 
Fig. 8. Philodromus ambarus, sp. n., female ; 8a, outer fore-elaw. 
9. Vulva of Arachnura trilobata. 
Fig. 10. Young of Arachnura longicauda, recently hatched; drawn with the camera- 
lucida. 
Fig. 11. Cocoon of Arachnura trilobata, natural size, in siti. 
Prate XI. 
Fig. 12. Salticus zanthofrontalis, sp. n. ; palpus of male in two positions. 
Fig. 13. Salticus tabinus, sp. n. ; vulva of female. 
Fig. 14. Salticus curvus, sp. n. ; palpus of male in two positions. 
Fig. 15. Salticus furvus, sp.n. ; vulva of female. 
Fig. 16. Salticus alpinus, sp.n.; palpus of male in two positions; a, fore inner claw. 
Fig. 17. Salticus albopalpis, sp. n. ; vulva of female. 
Fig. 18. Salticus compactus, sp. n.; vulva of female. 
. Salticus tenebricus, sp. n.; palpus of male in two positions. 
20. Sphasus gregarius, sp. n. ; a, female; b, male; c, maxille and labium of female ; 
d, claw; e, profile of male cephalothorax, with legs and palpi truncated; f, 
palpus. 
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