58 



ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



SOME NEW ARANEIDiE FROM THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 

 By W. J. RAINBOW, Entomologist to the Australian Museum. 



Figs, i, 2, 3, 4. 

 The present paper contains descriptions of three species new to science from within the county of 

 Cumberland, New South Wales. These represent three distinct families, viz., Uloborida;, Theridiida? 

 and Argiopida?, and were collected respectively by rav colleague, Mr. A. R. McCulloch, and Master 

 Chas. Danvers Power, of Burwood. 



Fig 1 



Uloborus congregdbilis, Rainbow. 

 Male. 



Uloborus 



congregabilis, RAINBOW. 

 Female. 



Phylarchus splendens, Rainrow. Female. 



Fig. 4- 

 Carepalxis powcri, RAINBOW. Female 



Family Uloborid.e. 



This family is a very small one, but it embraces a number of remarkable and interesting species, 

 which for convenience have been divided into four sub-families, three of which occur in Australia- 

 The form described below belongs to the genus Uloborus. Latr., and is included in the sub-family 

 Uloborinae. In his great classic, " Histoire Naturelle des Araignees," Simon defines the range of this 

 genus as follows: — " Europa et Regio mediterranea ; Africa; ins. Atlanticas ; Madagascar; Asia 

 centr. merid. et orient. ;J Malaisia ; Papuasia et Oceania ; America sept., centr., merid. et antilliana." * 

 This is a very wide range, when we consider that only about sixty species are as yet known to science. 

 The genus Uloborus has been divided by the distinguished author just quoted into four groups, and 

 it is to the last of these, Group D, the new species belongs. 



1. Simon — Hist. Nat. des Araign., i., 1892, pp. 214-215. 



