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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEIDiE OF NEW 
SOUTH WALES. No. 5. 
By W. J. Rainbow. 
(Plates xxii.-xxiii.) 
Family EPEiRID^E. 
Genus N e p h i l a, Leach. 
Nephila Fletcheri, sp.nov. 
(Plate xxn. figs. 1, la.) 
Q. Cephalothorax, 8 mm. long, 5 mm. broad; abdomen, 12mm. 
long, 6 mm. broad. 
Cephalothorax dark mahogany-brown, thickly clothed with 
hoary hairs; caput elevated, rounded on sides and upper part, 
deeply compressed at junction of cephalic and thoracic segments, 
forming deep, sublateral indentations; these latter only thinly 
furnished with short, hoary hairs; at posterior extremity of 
cephalic segment there are two coniform tubercles of dark 
mahogany colour. Clypeus broad, moderately convex, clothed 
with hoary pubescence, indented laterally; a deep, broad, trans- 
verse groove at centre; indentations and grooves sparingly pubes- 
cent. Marginal, band narrow, fringed with hoary hairs. 
Eyes of an opaline tint, placed on dark rings; the four central 
eyes are seated on a moderately convex eminence, and form an 
almost quadrangular figure; of these the front pair are somewhat 
the smallest, and are separated from each other by about twice 
their individual diameter; the posterior pair are also divided by 
a distance equal to twice their individual diameter; the lateral 
pairs are much the smallest, and are placed obliquely on small 
tubercles, but are not contiguous. 
