ARACIINIDAX FAUNA RAINBOW. 121 



Cephalothorax convex, yellow-brown, with a longitudinal dark 

 brown stripe proceeding from the front to posterior extremity. 

 Caput high, strongly arched, truncated in front, normal grooves 

 distinct ; furnished with a few long hoary hairs. Clypeus arched, 

 furnished with a few hoary hairs ; lateral radial grooves indistinct. 

 Marginal band narrow, fringed with hoary pubescence. Eyes of 

 a glassy-yellowish colour ; the four comprising the central group 

 are equal in size, and form a trapezium ; of these the two consti- 

 tuting the front row are separated from each other by a space 

 equal to fully twice their individual diameter ; the second row is 

 separated from the first by a space equal to nearly two diameters, 

 and from each other by rather more than one diameter ; lateral 

 pairs placed obliquely on small tubercles, and nearly contiguous. 

 Logs long, strong, yellowish-brown, clothed with long yellowish 

 hairs, and armed with long yellowish spines ; relative lengths, 

 1, 2, 4, 3 ; the second and fourth pair co-equal, but somewhat 

 shorter than the first. Palpi similar in colour and armature to 

 legs. Falces dark brown, long, strong, divergent at apex. 

 Maxillre dark brown, arched, inclining inwards. Labium con- 

 colorous, broader than long. Sternum dark brown, shield-shaped, 

 convex, surface sparingly clothed with hoary hairs, the sides 

 rather thickly so. Abdomen ovate, overhanging base of cephalo- 

 thorax, clothed with pale yellowish pubescence ; colour : saffron, 

 a longitudinal dark brown mark extends for a short distance 

 from anterior extremity, at the termination of which there are 

 three dark brown spots, two of which are somewhat lateral, and 

 the third, which is placed a little lower down is seated in the 

 median line ; commencing about midway there is a broad, dark 

 leaf-like design which terminates near the posterior extremity ; 

 sides of a s-iffron colour also ; inferior surface concolorous laterally 

 with dark brown markings ; a dark brown patch, narrowest at 

 centre, extends from epigyne to spinnerets. Epigyne a transverse 

 curved slit with a large broad lip overhanging. 



Three specimens. 



FAMILY TETRAGNATHID^E. 



Tetragnatha laqueata, L. Koch One ? specimen. 



L. Koch, Die Arachniden Australiens, i., pp. 190-2, T. xvi., 

 figs. 5-5/, 1871. 



FAMILY EULOBORID^. 



Uloborus zosis, Walck Twelve ? specimens. 



Uloborus zosis, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Ins. Apt., ii., p. 231, 



pi. 20, fig. 2 (Zosis caraibe), 1841. 

 L. Koch, Die Arachniden Australiens, i., pp. 221-4, T. xix., 



figs. 3-3e, 1871. 



