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Sternum. — Rather small, broad, somewhat shield-shaped, slightly arched, yellow, sparingly 

 clothed with short, stiff, black hairs. 



Abdomem — Ovate, slightly overhanging base of cephalothorax, dull yellowish, clouded with 

 patches of dark brown : a rather broad, yellowish, tapering stripe commences near middle of up- 

 per surface, and terminates slightly in front of spinnerets ; the surface both above, laterally, and 

 ventrally moderately clothed with short, black hairs. 



Epigynum. — Small, almost circular (fig. 3). 



Spinnerets. — Six: yellow; hairy; superior pair, although not exceedingly long, are neverthe- 

 less much longer than their neighbours; they are coniform, thick at base and tapering, three- 

 jointed, the median joint being the longest, and the apical the smallest; this pair are poised up- 

 on a rather long, broad, rounded, tubercular projection, on the superior surface of which there 

 is. at the centre a rather thick tuft of coarse, black hairs; immediately in front of the superior 

 spinnerets, there is a procurved row of four, and of these the two comprising the median pair are 

 close together and are, also, exceedingly small; the outer spinnerets are short, cylindrical, their 

 apices extending just beyond the base of the superior pair. 



Hab. — Fern-tree Gully, Victoria. 



