110 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



Bradley, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., i., The Araneides of the 



"Chevert" Expedition, pp. 144-5, 1876. 

 Thor., Studi Sui Ragni, etc., i. Ragni di Selebes, loc. cit., p. 394 



(54), 1877. 

 Thor., Studi Sui Ragni, etc., ii., Ragni di Amboina, loc. cit., 



pp. 65-69, 1878. 



Epeira plebeja, Koch Three immature specimens. 



L. Koch, Die Arachniden Australiens, i., pp. 69-70, T. vi., figs. 

 10, 10a, 1871. 



Genus EPEIRA, Walck. 



Epeira ventricosa, sp. nov. 



(Plate ii., figs. 4, 4a, 46, 4c.) 



? . Cephalothorax, 4|mm. long, 3mm. broad; abdomen, lOirnm. 

 long, 7^mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax convex, hairy, yellowish, with median and lateral 

 brown longitudinal bars. Caput moderately high, truncated in 

 front, clothed with moderately long hoary hairs ; normal grooves 

 and indentations distinct. Clypeus clothed with short hoary 

 hairs, convex, with lateral grooves radiating from near the centre. 

 Marginal band narrow, yellowish, fringed with hoary hairs. Eyes 

 of an opaline tint ; the four comprising the central group are 

 seated upon a somewhat quadrangular tubercle, and form a 

 trapezium, narrowest at the rear ; of these the front pair are the 

 largest, and are separated from each other by about twice their 

 individual diameter ; the second pair are smaller and are seated 

 to the rear by about twice, and from each other by about once- 

 and-a-half their individual diameter ; lateral eyes much the 

 smallest, seated obliquely upon small tubercles, and are almost 

 contiguous to each other. Legs moderately long and strong, 

 with black and yellow annulations, hairy, armed with rather 

 long and strong spines; relative lengths, 1, 2, 4, 3; the second 

 and fourth pairs equal in length, the third much the shortest. 

 Palpi moderately long and strong, similar in colour and armature 

 to legs. Falces long and strong, glossy brown in front and on 

 outer sides ; insides pale yellow, fringed at their base with a few 

 short hoary hairs ; the margins of the furrow of each falx are 

 armed with a row of three teeth ; fangs moderately long and 

 strong, wine-red. Maxillee rather longer than broad, arched ; 

 from base to near apex the colour is' brown, thence yellowish ; 

 fringed with moderately long and strong black hairs. Labium 

 concolorous, broader than high, rounded off at apex. Sternum 

 shield-shaped, dark brown, approaching bistre, relieved by a 

 longitudinal median line of yellow ; surface uneven, hairy. 

 Abdomen ovate, projecting over base of Cephalothorax ; superior 



