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EXPLANATION OP PLATE VIII. 



Pig. 



1. 



Aspidiotus carpodeti, abdomen of female. 



Fig- 



2. 



„ „ haltere of male. 



Fig. 



3. 



Mytilaspis epiphytidis, abdomen of female. 



Pig. 



4. 



Chiouaspis dysoxyli, puparium of female. 



Fig. 



5. 



„ „ puparium of male. 



Fig. 



6. 



,, „ abdomen of female. 



Fig. 



7. 



) 



Fig. 



8. 



I Fiorinia astelice, various forms of 2nd pellicle. 



Fig. 



9. 



) 



Fig. 



10. 



Ctenochiton liymenantherce, antenna of female. 



Fig. 



11. 



„ ,, antenna of male. 



Fig- 



12. 



,, elceocarpi, female on twig. 



Fig. 



13. 



,, ,, female, 2nd stage, on leaf. 



Fig. 



14. 



„ ,, antenna of female. 



Fig. 



15. 



Inglisia ornata, tests, male and female, on twig. 



Fig. 



16. 



,, ,, segment of test. 



Fig. 



17. 



,, ,, antenna of female. 



Fig. 



18. 



„ „ foot of female. 



Fig. 



19. 



„ ,, marginal spines, adult female. 



Fig. 



20. 



,, ,, spines and tubes, young insect. 



Fig. 



21. 



,, „ foot of male. 



Fig. 



22. 



,, ,, extremity of antenna of male. 



Fig. 



23. 



,, ,, spike, penis, and setse of male 



Fig. 



24. 



Lecanium olecv, females on twig. 



Fig. 



25. 



,, hemisphcericum, females on twig. 



Fig. 



26. 



„ mori, females on frond of fern. 



Aet. V. — On the Spiders of New Zealand. By A. T. Urquhart. - 

 [Bead before the Auckland Institute, 27th October, 1884.] 

 Plates IX.-XI. 

 Owing to our not possessing in the library of this Institute Koch's great 

 work "Die Arachniden Australiens" and Walckenaer's "His. Nat. des 

 Insectes Apteres," I was obliged to refer home for detailed descriptions of, 

 as far as I have been able to ascertain, rather more than one-half of the 

 described species of New Zealand spiders. As the greater portion of the 

 New Zealand species described by Koch were omitted in the transcript — 

 recently received, — I have struck out from this preliminary paper all doubt- 

 ful species that may have been described before, and trust that the few 

 retained will prove new to science. The family Thomisidce, represented by 

 two genera Philodromus and Sjxirassus, and the genera Arachnura and 

 Sphasus I believe have not been previously recorded as occurring in New 

 Zealand. 



