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and armed with numerous long black spines ; relative lengths, 

 1, 2, 4, 3 ; the second and fourth pairs somewhat shorter than the 

 first, and co-equal in length ; the third pair much the shortest. 

 Falces moderately long, obscure yellowish, divergent at apex, 

 inner margins fringed with long yellowish hairs ; the upper 

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

 lower with three. Maxillae long, arched, widely divergent ; outer 

 margins fringed with long black hairs, and the inner with yel- 

 lowish ; colours : dark brown, apex and inner margins of each 

 pale yellow. Labium broader than long, dark brown, apex pale 

 yellow. Sternum cordate, dark brown, hairy. Abdomen over- 

 hanging base of cephalothorax ; superior surface clothed with 

 pale yellowish hairs ; colour : dark brown, flecked laterally with 

 yellow ; a long, broken, uneven yellowish patch at centre, com- 

 mencing at anterior extremity, and terminating about midway ; 

 sides dark brown, streaked with yellow ; inferior surface dark 

 brown, with yellow lateral patches, and clothed with dark brown 

 and yellowish hairs. Spinnerets long, prominent, yellow-brown, 

 clothed with coarse black hairs. Epigyne elevated on a pale 

 fleshy lobe, the latter cleft deeply and longitudinally in front ; 

 the long chitinous process similar to E. multispina, Rainb. 

 One mature and two immature specimens. 



Epeira annulipes, sp. nov. 

 (Plate iv., figs. 3, 3a, 36, 3c.) 



5 . Cephalothorax, 4mm. long, 3mm. broad ; abdomen, 8mm. 

 long, 4^mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax convex, hairy, with pale yellow and dark brown 

 longitudinal bars. Caput moderately high, strongly arched, trun- 

 cated in front, clothed with long hoary hairs ; normal grooves 

 distinct. Clypeus broad, arched, clothed on upper part with long 

 hoary hairs, and on the sides with short white and brown hairs ; 

 at the centre, commencing at junction of cephalic and thoracic 

 segments there is a deep, longitudinal, moderately long cleft ; 

 lateral grooves somewhat indistinct. Marginal band, pale yellow, 

 fringed with short hoary pubescence. Eyes of a greyish lustre 

 with black rings ; the four comprising the central group are 

 seated on a slightly elevated quadrangular eminence, and form 

 a trapezium ; of these the front pair are slightly the largest, and 

 are separated from each other by a space equal to one and a half 

 their individual diameter ; those of the second row are separated 

 from their anterior neighbours by a space equal to twice their 

 individual diameter, and from each other by about one diameter; 

 side eyes seated obliquely on small tubercles, and contiguous to 

 each other. Legs long and strong ; coxre dark brown above, 

 greyish underneath ; femurs yellow, with dark brown annula- 

 tions above, white underneath ; trochanters, tibii, and metatarsi 



