DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW QUEENSLAND 
ARANEIDiE. 
By J. LAMB. 
Family OONOPHLE. 
G-roiip OONOPIDiE MOLLES. 
MACEDONIA OCTOSPITTATA nov. sp. 
Cephalothorax dark castaneous-brown, ovate, longer than broad, 
longer than patella cum tibia of any pair of legs ; cephalic part 
prominently convex, roundly truncated, hairs long sparse; clypeus 
inclined forwards, its depth equal to twice the diameter of a centre 
eye; normal groove separating cephalic from thoracic segment 
Fig. 1.— Macedonia octospinata nov. sp. 
Width of cephalium about eleven 
times its natural size. 
visible. Eyes of about equal size, suboval, opalescent, in three 
subcontiguous groups; centre pair placed behind the front line of 
hinder laterals, and nearer to them than to the anterior laterals Legs 
castaneous-brown, strong, relative length 1, 2, 4, 3 ; but little differ- 
ence between the first, second, and third pairs; femur of fourth pair 
a little stouter than the others, femur of first pair with 5 short black 
.spines on proximal end, of the second 4, of the third 3, and of the fourth 
