114 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



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

 second and fourth pairs co-equal, and the third the shortest. 

 Palpi moderately long, clothed with yellowish pubescence and 

 long black hairs ; colour and armature similar to legs. Falces 

 pale yellowish, somewhat darker at base, divergent, inner margins 

 at the base fringed with yellowish pubescence ; the upper margin 

 of the furrow of each falx armed with a row of four teeth, and 

 the lower with a row of three ; fangs long, strong, glossy, brown 

 at base, wine-red at points. Maxillae widely divergent, obscurely 

 tinted at base, pale yellowish above, moderately arched, fringed 

 on the outer and inner margins with white and a few long black 

 hairs. Labium concolorous, broader than long. Sternum cordate, 

 moderately convex, dark brown, with a pale yellowish median 

 wedge-shaped patch, broadest in the front, clothed with long, fine 

 yellowish and a few black hairs. Abdomen ovate, yellowish- 

 grey, clothed with short yellowish pubescence ; projecting over 

 base of cephalothorax ; the broad leaf-like design upon superior 

 surface darkest laterally ; sides somewhat lighter in colour ; 

 inferior surface grey with a median patch of dark brown, 

 the latter broader in front than behind, and indented laterally 

 with pale yellowish, and this again bordered with dark brown. 

 Spinnerets long and prominent. Epigyne, a long and slightly 

 curved chitinous process, dark brown laterally, yellowish on 

 the upper surface, and fringed with long, yellowish hairs above, 

 and hollowed on the underside ; at the base of this process 

 there is a large and somewhat globose fleshy lobe, hollow within, 

 the lobe of a dirty yejlowish colour. 

 One specimen. 



Epeira etheridgei, sp. nov. 

 (Plate iii., figs. 5, 5a, 56, 5c.) 



$ . Cephalothorax, 4mm. long, 3mm. broad ; abdomen, 7mm. 

 long, 5jnim. broad. 



Cephalothorax pale yellow, with median and lateral longitu- 

 dinal brown bars ; the median bar oblong wedge-shaped, broadest 

 in the vicinity of the median eye, and terminating in a fine point 

 immediately below the junction of the cephalic and thoracic 

 segments, the whole surface of the cephalothorax clothed with 

 long hoary hairs. Caput moderately high, truncated in front, 

 rounded on the sides and upper part. Clypeus broad, strongly 

 arched ; a strong, deep longitudinal cleft at the centre, from 

 whence radiate the lateral grooves. Marginal band broad, pale 

 yellow, fringed with short yellowish pubescence. Eyes as in female 

 example of E. multispina, Rainb. Legs long and strong, yellow 

 with brown annulations ; each limb clothed with yellow and 

 black hairs, and armed with long, strong black spines ; relative 



