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NEW ARANEID.E OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 
spines; metatarsi and tarsi dark brown approaching sepia, thickly 
clothed with dark bristles; superior tarsal claws moderately long, 
curved and pectinated; inferior claw sharply curved. Relative 
lengths 1, 2, 4, 3; of these the first pair are the longest, the 
second and fourth pairs coequal; third pair much the shortest. 
Palpi moderately long, similar in colour and armature; terminal 
claw slightly curved, and armed with four teeth near the base on 
the underside. 
Falces dark brown, vertical, somewhat conical, divergent at 
apex; the margins of the furrows of each falx armed with a row 
of five teeth. 
Maxillce dark brown, approaching bistre, rather longer than 
broad, divergent, fringed with rather long black hairs. 
Labium dark brown, longer than broad, about the length of 
maxillae. 
Sternum shield-shaped, sparingly hairy, tubercular, yellow- 
brown; dark brown patch at centre. 
Abdomen ovate; moderately convex, projecting over base of 
cephalo thorax; superior surface pubescent, light brown, orna- 
mented by a large number of symmetrically disposed punctures, 
six of the largest of which are situated tolerably well forward, 
forming a somewhat triangular figure; immediately above these 
there are 12 smaller punctures forming an arch, and immediately 
underneath seven minute ones arranged in the following order : — 
1, 2, 1, 2, 1; in addition to these there are 11 other punctures as 
large as those comprising the triangular figure, disposed in three 
rows, each slightly curved, the curvature being directed forward; 
of these the first row, which is situated near the centre, contains 
three, and the second and third four each; besides the punctures 
herein described the posterior portion of the abdomen is further 
ornamented by four tolerably distinct longitudinal parallel lines 
or markings; each lateral line commences at the centre of the 
lateral punctures of the first row of three, and running to the tip 
of the abdomen intersects each lateral puncture of the second and 
third rows; the inner lines commence as a single one at a point 
