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she suspends by a short pedicle, — and sometimes braces with a few fine 

 lines, — a somewhat globular whitish cocoon of compact texture, 5 mm. in 

 length, and 3 mm. in diameter ; the base contracts into a narrow funnel- 

 shaped outlet 2 mm. in length, through which the young escape. In this 

 cocoon the female deposits about 36 unagglutinated spherical straw- 

 coloured eggs. 



Karaka, Auckland, A.T.TJ. 



Fam. THOMISHXE. 

 Genus Sparassus, Walck. 



Sparassus angulatus, sp. n. 



Length of an adult female 7 mm. 



The cephalothorax is a broad oval, constricted laterally forwards, and 

 roundly truncated in front ; the profile ascends abruptly from the hinder 

 extremity, then slopes gradually, ascending slightly at the ocular area ; the 

 caput is depressed, and its converging grooves — in some examples forming 

 a brown medial band — extend nearly to the base of the cephalothorax, 

 which is of a yellow-ochreous hue, sparingly furnished with short papilla- 

 form hairs. Height of clypeus about half the depth of the facial space. 



The eyes constitute a segment of a circle, with its convexity directed for- 

 wards ; the lateral eyes of the anterior row are the largest, and the inter- 

 mediate ones of the same row are the smallest of the eight. 



Eelative length of legs 1, 2, 4, 3, the first and second pahs (9-7 mm.) 

 are much the stoutest and longest ; they are a shade lighter than the 

 cephalothorax, and furnished with papillasform hairs ; the femoral joints of 

 the first pair have an oblique row of three or four spines on the outer surface, 

 the socket of the inner spine is remarkably developed ; the femora of the 

 second pair have only one spine; the tibiae and metatarsi of the first and 

 second pairs have each six spines on the inner, and four on the outer side of 

 the inferior surface ; the two hind-pairs are sparingly armed with spines ; the 

 tarsi are clothed with dark hairs, and terminate with two curved claws 

 furnished with three coarse teeth, beneath them there is a small scopula. 



The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and are armed with a minute 

 claw. 



The falces are vertical, tapering. 



The maxilla are straight, rounded at the extremity, inclined towards the 

 lip which is oval. 



The sternum is a broad oval, and has the uniform yellow-ochreous tint. 



The fore-part of the abdomen rises abruptly from the pedicle, is truncate, 

 with a slight cleft in the centre ; the posterior extremity is the widest and 

 somewhat square ; at each angle there is a conical prominence directed 

 backwards ; the impressed spots form a square ; it is of a dull ochreous 



