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colour suffused with red-chestnut, the other joints are yellowish with brown 

 ann ulations. The tarsi terminate with three claws all differing from the 

 rest in strength and curvature. 



The palpi are short, with annulations of three shades. 



The falces are vertical, dull black, finely rugulose. 



The maxilla are somewhat quadrate, blackish-brown, reddish margins. 



The labium is triangular, about twice as long as high, resembles the 

 maxillse in colour. 



The sternum is blackish-brown, heart-shaped. 



The abdomen is large, on the fore part, which projects over the base of 

 the cephalothorax, there is an oblong brown mark, margined with a smooth 

 space of a pinkish colour clothed with whitish hairs ; on either side the 

 surface of the anterior part of the abdomen is deeply wrinkled ; four 

 prominent humps form a transverse row across the centre, the exterior ones 

 are somewhat conical, divergent, and directed slightly backwards ; the 

 upper and anterior face has an olive hue, the ridges tinted with brownish- 

 pink ; the posterior extremity is somewhat pointed with five transverse 

 wrinkles ; the hind parts are tinted with light shades. The ventral surface 

 has deep transverse wrinkles, is of a yellowish-brown colour, sparingly 

 furnished with light hairs. The vulva is black with a large reddish lip-like 

 protuberance. 



Karaka, Auckland, A.T.U. 



Fam. THEEIDIIDJ5. 

 Genus Argyrodes, Simon. 



Argyrodes conns, sp. n. PI. x., fig. 6. 



Length of a mature female 2£ mm., and of an adult male 2 mm. 



The cephalothorax is oval, moderately convex, glossy black ; nearly 

 glabrous ; the profile line ascends gradually from the thoracic junction in 

 an undulating line, caused by the transverse indentation, to the ocular 

 area ; the forepart of this area is very prominent, forming a deep indenta- 

 tion in the profile of the clypeus, whose height otherwise is rather more than 

 the length of the ocular area ; lateral marginal constrictions at the caput 

 moderate, normal grooves deep. 



The eyes are about equal in size, and have a pearly lustre; the four 

 central eyes form a square, and the hind-centrals are rather further apart 

 from each other than each is from the posterior lateral eyes, which are 

 seated obliquely on strong tubercles and nearly contiguous to the anterior 

 laterals. 



The legs are long and slender, the first pair is the longest (6 mm.), 

 second and fourth about equal ; they have yellowish-brown tints, and with 

 the exception of the first pair, only faintly annulated with a darker hue ; 



