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being sometimes directly opposite the entrance tube and in a line 

 with it, but often to the right or left of it; it may also descend or 

 ascend slightly or be horizontal. It seems to be used as a dining- 

 room, for it almost always contained remains of insects, sometimes 

 in considerable quantities. The deepest tube is always narrower 

 than the entrance tube, and descends to a depth of about 20|- cm., and 

 sometimes even as much as 25-|cm. The spider was always found at 

 the bottom of this, the deepest burrow. 



2. Spiroctenus latus, n. sp. 



1 $ (No. 12804) from Wellington (G. French, October, 1903). 



Colour. — Carapace reddish-yellow, the head and the median part 

 behind infuscated, the margins blackened ; chelicera dark brown, 

 reddish-yellow at base ; legs infuscated, also below, paler at distal 

 extremity, especially below, the patellae pale yellowish to reddish- 

 yellow on the naked strips above ; coxae and sternum pale ochra- 

 ceous ; abdomen pale yellow, the dorsal and upper part of lateral 

 surfaces with thick black reticulation, ventral surface with a trans- 

 verse row of black marks before the spinners, the lung-opercula 

 brownish laterally. 



Carapace as long as the metatarsus and f of the tarsus of the 

 fourth leg, but subequal to the tibia and metatarsus and longer than 

 the metatarsus and tarsus of first leg. Eyes disposed much as in 

 S. collinus (Poc), the anterior laterals much- larger than the anterior 

 medians and posterior laterals, the posterior medians very small, 

 much smaller than the other eyes. 



Chelicera with the inferior groove much shorter than the median 

 length of the sternum, the outer row of teeth in the groove extending 

 forwards a little beyond the middle of the inner row and composed 

 of numerous minute teeth, the row duplicated behind. 



Labium with 2 apical teeth. Coxce of peclipalps with about 25 

 basal teeth. 



Sternum with the sagilla of the posterior pair narrow, elongate. 



Posterior spinners short, the apical segment almost hemispherical 

 and about half as long as the penultimate segment. 



Pedipalps. — Tibia with an internal spine near apex ; spine of 

 palpal organ shorter than the bulb, conical at the base but finely 

 subulate distally. 



Legs short. Tarsi muticous, those of the third pair slightly 

 curving upwards at base, the others quite straight, I.-III. scopulate 

 below, the bristles along the middle of the scopula very minute, 

 almost obsolete in I. and II., distinct but very slender in III. ; IV. 



