276 me. h. r. hogg on [June 4 



Measurements in millimetres. 



Long. Broad. 



Cephalothorax 6| 5 



Abdomen . . 6 4 



Superior spinnerets 2 mm. 



Pat. & Metat. & 



Coxa. Tr. & fein. tib. tars. 



Legs 1. 2f 6 6 6 = 20f 



2. 21 5| 5i 5| = 18f 



3. 2* 5 5 5 = 17| 



4. 2| 6i 61 7 = 22| 

 Palpi 2 3" 3 1 = 9 



Group Hexathele^. 



Genus Hexathele Auss. 



Hexathele Ausserer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 171; 

 L. Koch, Aracbn. Austr. 1873, p. 459 ; E. Simon, Hist. Nat. d. 

 Araign. i. 1892, p. 188. 



The genus (sec. Auss.) hardly differs from Macrothele except 

 in the addition of two small spinnerets to the usual group 

 of four, but with no scopulae on tarsal joint or spiues on front 

 two pairs. The known species, of which two only have been 

 described, are confined to N. Zealand. 



Type, H. hochstetteri Auss. 



Hexathele hochstettebi Auss. (Text-fig. 41, p. 277.) 



Hexathele hochstetteri Auss. loc. cit. p. 172 ; L. Koch, loc. cit. 



Since the above was written, two specimens, a male and a female, 

 have fortunately arrived at the British Museum. They were 

 collected from Pahiatua, Wellington, N.Z., and forwarded by 

 Capt. Hutton. They are larger than the specimens previously 

 described by Ausserer and L. Koch, in both cases females, but 

 fairly well conform to the descriptions of H. hochstetteri Auss. 

 I am therefore able to give the following particulars of this 

 previously imperfectly known species. 



Cephalothorax and legs bright reddish brown ; mandibles dark 

 red-brown. 



Abdomen dark grey-brown above, dark but rather yellower below, 

 no pattern distinguishable. 



Front middle eyes half their diameter apart. Front and rear 

 side-eyes of equal size, their long diameter 1| of front middle 

 and \ of same apart. The long diameter of the rear middle eyes 

 equal to that of the front middle. 



Thoracic fovea straight and deep. 



Sternum ovate, broadest posteriorly ; sigillse moderate in size 

 and nearly marginal. 



