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ON AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 



[June 4, 





Measurements in millimetres. 











, 



Female. 











Long. 



Broad. 









Cephalothorax 



i0| 





9 









Abdomen 



14 





11 









Superior spinnerets 3, 



2,3= 



=8. 

















Pat. & 



Metat. & 









Coxa. 



Tr. & fern. 



rib. 



tars. 





Legs 



1. 



5 



9 



Si 



°2 



8£ = 



31 





2. 



U 



H 



8 



8 



29 





3. 



4 



7 



7 



8 = 



2fH 





4. 



H 



9 



9 



10 = 



32| 



Palpi 



Lon 



g. 



6 



Male. 

 Broad. 



6 



4 = 



20| 



Cephalothorax 



10. 



i 



9 









Abdomen . . 



11; 



L 

 5 



U 









Spinnerets 1st pair 



3,2, 



3 = 8; 2nd 



pair 2 : 



; 3rd pair 1. 





Distance apart 



?» 



3; 





Pat.. & 



; „ 4. 



Metat. & 









Coxa 



. Tr. & fern. 



tib. 



tars. 





Legs 



1. 



5 



PI 



9£ 



9£ = 



33i 





2. 



4 



9 



9 



9i = 



31 1 





3. 



4 



8^ 



8£ 



11 = 



32 





4. 



4 



9| 



9| 



12 = 



35 



Palni 





4 



7 



7 



2 = 



20 



Hexathele petreii Goyen. 



H.petreii P. Goyen, Proc. N. Z. Inst. vol. xix. (1886) p. 207. 



H. petrerii, A. T. Urquhart, ibid. vol. xxiv. (1891) p. 221. 



Female found by and named after D. Petrie, Esq. ; locality Otago. 



Total length 20 mm. (sec. Goyen). 



Abdomen (overhanging ceph.) 12 mm. long. 



Mr. Goyen makes no mention of how his species differs from 

 the type species. Except a discrepancy in the eyes I can find no 

 difference in the descriptions of these two species. 



Ausserer says ©f the genus, " eyes as in Nemesia" i.e. front row 

 procurved, rear row recurved. Lateral eyes oval. 



Mr. Goyen says, "anterior row bent backward and the posterior 

 forward." If this is meant in the German sense, his description 

 tallies with H. hochstetteri ; if he means recurved and procurved 

 respectively, it must be something very different from the genus 

 Hexathele of Dr. Ausserer. 



Note. — In a former paper (Proceedings Royal Society of Victoria, 

 August 1900), I gave the name Hylobius to a new genus of the 

 family Dictynida?. I now find that it has been previously applied 



