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these the eyes of the front pair are sensibly the largest, and are 

 separated from each other by a space equal to about once their indi- 

 vidual diameter ; the eyes comprising the second pair are separated 

 from their anterior neighbours by a space equal to once the diameter 

 of an eye of the second row, and from each other by a space equal 

 to about two-thirds of a diameter ; side eyes seated obliquely on 

 small tubercles and contiguous to each other. Legs long and 

 moderately strong, yellowish-grey with yellow-brown annulations, 

 clothed with yellowish hairs, and armed with long black spines ; 

 relative lengths, 1 , 2, 4, 3 ; the second and fourth pair somewhat 

 shorter than the first, and co-equal. Palpi similar in colour and 

 armature to the legs. Falces long, divergent at apex, shiny, 

 yellowish, inner margins fringed with yellowish hairs ; apex dark 

 brown on inner margins ; the upper margin of the furrow of each 

 falx is armed with a row of four teeth, and the lower with three. 

 Maxilla) broad, arched, yellow-brown, widely divergent ; the outer 

 lateral surface is thinly fringed with yellowish hairs, and the 

 inner lateral surface thickly so. Labium concolorous. Sternum 

 cordate, dark brown, yellowish in the centre, surface uneven, 

 clothed with long yellowish hairs. Abdomen ovate, large, pro- 

 jecting over base of cephalothorax, clothed with short yellowish 

 hairs ; colour, yellowish-grey, the upper surface ornamented with 

 a large and prominent dark grey leaf -like design, extending from 

 near anterior to posterior extremity ; sides yellowish-grey, with 

 dark markings ; inferior surface light grey at sides ; at centre, 

 extending from epigyne to spinnerets, there is a long sooty-black 

 patch, broadest near anterior extremity; on each side of this 

 patch there is a long white band, broadest at posterior extremity, 

 and these are bordered again with a sooty-black stripe somewhat 

 broadest at its anterior extremity ; on each side of spinnerets, 

 and seated somewhat in front, there is a large white spot. 

 Epigyne a long, transverse slit, with a broad, and fairly pro- 

 minent dark brown lip overhanging. 



One mature and one immature specimen. 



Epeira hoggi, sp. nov. 

 (Plate v., figs. 1, la.) 



? . Cephalothorax, 4mm. long, 2|mm. broad; abdomen, 6mm. 

 long, 3|mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax convex, pale yellow with broad lateral longi- 

 tudinal brown bars, the whole surface clothed with hoary hairs. 

 Caput arched, moderately high, truncated in front ; a longitudinal 

 dark brown stripe commences at ocular area, where it is much 

 the broadest and terminates at the median longitudinal cleft 

 situated at the junction of cephalic and thoracic segments. 

 Clypeus broad, arched, lateral radial grooves indistinct. Mar- 

 ginal band broad, yellow, fringed with short, hoary hairs. Eyes 



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