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lengths : 1, 2, 4, 3 ; the second and fourth pairs co-equal in 

 length, and the third much the shortest. Palpi moderately long 

 and strong, similar in colour and armature to legs. Falces 

 yellow, fringed on inner side with few moderately long hoary 

 hairs, divergent at apex ; the upper margins of the grooves of 

 the furrow of each falx armed with four teeth, and the lower 

 with three ; fangs long and strong, dark brown at base, wine-red 

 at tips. Maxillre widely divergent, arched, obscurely tinted at 

 base, pale yellowish at apex, outer margins fringed with long 

 coarse black hairs. Labium concolorous, arched, broader than 

 long. Sternum cordate, dark brown, clothed with moderately 

 long, hoary hairs. Abdomen ovate, projecting over base of 

 cephalothorax, clothed with short whitish hairs, superior surface 

 yellowish-grey ; the broad leaf-like design much the darkest 

 laterally ; sides clothed with short whitish hairs, yellowish-grey 

 towards superior surface, somewhat darker below, especially 

 towards posterior extremity ; inferior surface dark grey, clothed 

 with short, yellowish hairs ; there is also a median patch of dark 

 brown, slightly broader behind than in front, and indented later- 

 ally with two white patches : two white spots are located on each 

 side of spinnerets, of which the front pair are considerably the 

 largest. Spinnerets long and prominent, obscure yellowish-brown, 

 and clothed with rather long black hairs. Epigyne seated on a 

 pale fleshy lobe ; the long chitinous process similar in colour and 

 structure to E. tnultispina, Rainb. 



One mature and one immature specimen. The latter is smaller 

 and much ligher in colour than the former, and the longitudinal 

 median and lateral bars, so prominent on the cephalothorax of 

 the adult, are not present ; the same remark also applies to the 

 dark annulations upon the legs and palpi of the adult form. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this species to Mr. R. 

 Etheridge, Junr., Curator of the Australian Museum. 



Epeira /"estiva, sp. nov. 

 (Plate iv., figs. 1, la, 16.) 



? . Cephalothorax, 4mm. long, 3mm. broad; abdomen, 8Jmm. 

 long, 6mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown with broad longitudinal median 

 and dark brown bars ; the entire surface clothed with coarse 

 hoary hairs. Caput elevated, truncated in front, normal grooves 

 distinct. Clypeus broad, arched, and has a deep median depression, 

 from whence radiate lateral grooves, the latter indistinct. Mar- 

 ginal band broad, pale yellowish, fringed with hoary pubescence. 

 Eyes of an opaline tint, with black rings ; the four comprising 

 the central group seated upon a somewhat quadrangular eminence, 

 and form a trapezium ; of these the eyes comprising the front row 



