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Legs: 
I 
IV 
II 
III Palp 
4.43 
3.58 
3.41 
2.50 0.81 
PATELLA 
AND 
META- 
FEMUR 
TIBIA 
TARSUS 
TARSUS TOTAL 
Palp 
0.37 
0.41 
0.48 1.26 
I 
2.08 
2.14 
1.87 
0.78 6.87 
II 
1.67 
1.56 
1.41 
0.65 5.29 
III 
1.21 
1.08 
1.01 
0.57 3.87 
IV 
1.74 
1.71 
1.42 
0.67 5.54 
Tibial Index I 10.1 
Tibial Index IV 8.4 
Three claws, the dorsal ones with 3 or 4, the 
median one with 1 pectination. Spurious 
claws, except on IV, and pectinated bristles. 
Bristles, pectinated on both sides, along tar- 
sus and the distal end of metatarsus IV. No 
spines. Tarsal organ on I, 63 per cent of the 
length of the tarsus from the distal end. 
Abdomen: Length 3.11 mm., breadth 2.47 
mm. Rounded, spinnerets ventral. Anterior 
spinnerets largest, and close together. Other 
spinnerets in a transverse line, the median 
small and compressed between the posterior 
ones. Anal tubercle small and transverse, no 
colulus. Epigynum as in Figure 3. 
Fig. 3. Theridion kraussi. Epigynum. 
The presence of teeth on the cheliceral 
groove may exclude this species from the 
genus Theridion , but it seems best to place it 
here tentatively. 
TETRAGNATHIDAE 
Several species of Tetragnatha have been 
recorded from the South Pacific area, but 
they seem to be subject to a considerable 
amount of variation in colour, in the size and 
position of the eyes, and in the cheliceral 
teeth. The following identifications are ac- 
cordingly more or less uncertain. 
Tetragnatha keyserlingi Simon 
2d, 3 9 from Tahiti. These differ from the 
descriptions in colour and in the cheliceral 
teeth and are only very doubtfully placed 
here. lcT Raiatea. 2cf, 1 9 Upolu. 
Tetragnatha laqueata L. Koch 
1 $ from Opoa, Raiatea. Previously recorded 
only from Samoa. 
Tetragnatha macilenta L. Koch 
Id from Lami, Viti Levu, a new record. 12 $ 
Upolu, Id, 49 Savaii. 
Tetragnatha nitens (Audouin) 
1 9 from Baie de Cook, Moorea. This is a 
species with a very wide distribution, from 
the Mediterranean to several of the Pacific 
islands. 
Tetragnatha panopea L. Koch 
1 9 from Borabora. Previously recorded from 
Lord Howe Island, the New Hebrides, Ellice 
Islands, and Samoa. 1 9 Savaii. 
Leucauge granulata Walckenaer 
According to Dalmas (1917) the species re- 
ferred to by L. Koch as Leucauge granulata 
Walck. is not properly so called but should 
be Leucauge dromedaria (Thorell). It occurs in 
Australia, New Zealand, and several of the 
Pacific islands as far east as Tahiti. It has not 
been recorded from Samoa. One specimen in 
the present collection from Sili, in Savaii, may 
belong to it. It resembles New Zealand speci- 
mens in shape and colour, but it is consider- 
ably smaller. 
Leucauge ilatele Marples 
2d Apia, Upolu. Described from the female 
only from Upolu. 
male. Length 3.84 mm. Pale yellowish 
