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joints. The radial is about double the length of the cubital joint, and 

 decreases a little in strength gradually from its hinder to its fore extremity. 

 The digital joint is of a somewhat oval form, broadest in front, where it is 

 notched or strongly indented. The palpal organs consist of a simple pyriform 

 corneous bulb, its stem tapering to a point, curved, and directed outwards and 

 backwards. 



The Falces are moderate in strength, roundly prominent, and of rich 

 chestnut-bi'own colour, furnished with bristly hairs in front. 



The Maxillce are strong and divergent, the extremity of each, on the inner 

 side, is slightly produced into an obtusely prominent point. 



The Labium is short, and of a somewhat semi-circular form. These parts 

 are of a brownish-yellow colour. 



The Sternum is not large ; it is broader behind than at its fore part, hairy, 

 and of a greenish yellow-brown colour. 



The Abdomen is rather large, oval, and modei'ately convex above ; it is of 

 a blackish-brown colour, mottled and marked with pale whitish drab-yellow, 

 and an indistinct pattern may be traced showing a longitudinal central 

 tapering dark bar, from which on either side several broadish, pale, and 

 slightly oblique bars run off to the sides. The upper-side is furnished with 

 numerous long tapering bristly hairs, each springing from a minute black 

 spot. The four large spiracular plates on the under-side are yellow, with a 

 large patch of black brown on each. The spinners are four in number ; those 

 of the superior pair are tapering, nearly as long as the abdomen, and consisting 

 of three joints of nearly equal length ; they are hairy, and of a greenish yellow- 

 brown colour. Those of the inferior pair are small, one-jointed, and not moi'e 

 than half the length of a single joint of the superior pair. 



An adult female agreed substantially with the above description of the 

 male, except in being rather larger and wanting the abnormal form and 

 development of the tibise and metatarsi of the legs of the first pair, and, of 

 course, differing also in the structure of the palpi, which, in this sex, are 

 simply pediform, and terminate with a single strongish, rather blunt-pointed, 

 curved claw, armed beneath with (apparently) a single tootli towards 

 its base. 



An adult of each sex of this spider was received from Captain F. W. Hutton, 

 by whom they were found at Wellington, New Zealand. 



Family Agelenides. 

 Sub-family Argyronetince 

 Genus Ca/mbridgea, L. Koch. 



C. FASCIATA. 



Cambridgea /asciata, L. Koch, Die Arachniden Australiens, pj). 358 — 3G1, 



pi. sxviii., fig. 2. 

 (PI. YI, figs. 1—13.) 

 Au adult female of this spider was contained in a small collection made in 



