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NEW ARANEIDjE OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 
Legs long, slender, yellow-brown; trochanters sparingly pubes- 
cent, few short spines; femora thickly clothed with long yellow 
hairs, and armed with rather short spines; tibial joints armed with 
short spines and bristles; metatarsi and tarsi dark brown, thickly 
clothed with short dark brown bristles; superior tarsal daws 
moderately long, curved and pectinated; inferior claw sharply 
curved. Relative lengths of legs 1, 2, 4, 3; of these the third pair 
are much the shortest. 
Falces dark brown, approaching bistre, somewhat conical, diver- 
gent at apex; the margins of the furrows of each falx are armed 
with a row of five teeth. 
Maxilla} yellow-brown, outer margins bistre, rather longer than 
broad, divergent; few coarse dark hairs. 
Labium yellow-brown, longer than broad, about half the length 
of maxillae; furnished with a few short dark hairs. 
Sternum yellow-brown, shield-shaped, outline sinuous; surface 
uneven, sparingly clothed with white pubescence. 
Abdomen ovate, moderately convex, projecting over base of 
cephalothorax; superior surface sparingly pubescent, yellow-brown, 
somewhat darker towards posterior extremity; ornamented with 
17 spots, and, from near centre to posterior extremity, five indis- 
tinct parallel, though somewhat uneven, lines; of the former there 
are six conspicuous spots and 11 minute ones; the larger ones are 
distributed in three pairs, the first of which is seated well forward; 
between the individuals comprising the first pair there is a minute 
spot; below the first pair there are six minute spots, arranged in 
two rows, the first of which contains four individuals, and is 
slightly curved; the second pair are placed near the centre, and 
each spot of the first and second pairs are relieved by an almost 
circular yellow patch or disc, rather more than its own diameter; 
the third pair are seated lower down, but are not nearly so dark 
as those of the first and second pairs, nor are they relieved in like 
manner; towards the posterior extremity there are two smaller 
and less distinct pairs; the parallel lines or markings commence 
at a point above second pair of spots, and run midway between 
