Spiders from Pacific Islands — Marples 
brown, the abdomen covered with smaller 
silvery marks leaving a clear dorsal stripe. 
Brown round the eyes and at the thoracic 
groove. 
Carapace: Length 1.76 mm., breadth 1.40 
mm., breadth of eye group 0.63 mm. Low, 
with longitudinal groove smooth pear-shaped 
outline. 
Eyes : 8, all pale. From above, anterior row 
strongly recurved, posterior row straight. Ra- 
tios of the diameters of the eyes and of their 
distances apart: AM, 135; AL, 145; PM, 160; 
PL, 166; AM-AM, 131; AM-AL, 117; AM- 
PM, 133; PM-PM, 107; PM-PL, 130; L-L, 0; 
clypeus, 205. 
Chelicerae: Groove oblique, 3 promarginal 
and 4 retromarginal teeth, the proximal ones 
of each row situated on the rim of the arti- 
cular membrane, which is large, of the fang. 
A blunt tooth retrolaterally placed near the 
last retromarginal tooth. 
Maxillae: Wider distally and curving out- 
wards. 
Lip: Broader than long, truncated ante- 
riorly where it is rebordered and has 2 bristles 
at each corner. 
Sternum: Length 0.72 mm., breadth 0.87 
mm. Heart-shaped. Margin convex and re- 
bordered opposite coxae I, slightly concave 
opposite the other coxae. Extends between 
coxae IV as a slender process bifurcated at the 
waist. 
Palp: As in Figure 4. Large bulb, cymbium 
with 2 apophyses at the proximal end, one 
blunt and directed dorsally, one sharp and 
curved and directed prolaterally. 
Legs: 
I 
II 
IV 
III 
Palp 
7.85 
4.67 
3.87 
2.25 
1.27 
PATELLA 
AND 
META- 
FEMUR 
TIBIA 
TARSUS TARSUS TOTAL 
Palp 
1.03 
3.84 
0.82 
5.69 
I 
3.75 
4.61 
4.37 
1.07 
13.80 
II 
2.42 
2.58 
2.47 
0.73 
8.20 
III 
1.28 
1.16 
1.04 
0.48 
3.96 
IV 
2.29 
2.12 
1.85 
0.52 
6.80 
Tibial Index I 
18.1 
Tibial Index IV 12.3 
393 
Fig. 4. Leucauge ilatele. a. Retrolateral view of left 
palp. b. Prolateral view of right palp. 
Many of the spines are missing from these 
specimens but they seem to have been fewer 
than in the female. Five small trichobothria 
in two rows on the prolateral side of the base 
of femur IV. 
Abdomen: Length 2.14 mm., breadth 1.22 
mm. Slight dorsal hump about one third of 
the length from the anterior end. 
Leucauge prodiga L. Koch 
1 9 Lami, Viti Levu. Previously recorded 
from Samoa. 2 $ Upolu, 2 9 Savaii. 
Leucauge tuberculata Keyserling 
3 9 from the mountains near Uturoa, Raiatea, 
1 9 from Baie de Cook, Moorea. First records 
from the Society Islands, previously recorded 
from Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga. 2d% 5 9 Savaii. 
8 9 Upolu. 
EPEIRIDAE 
Anepsia rhomboides L. Koch 
5 9 Sili, Savaii. The first record, but the spe- 
cies is common in Upolu. 119 Upolu. 
Argiope pentagona L. Koch 
1 9 Lami, Viti Levu. Previously recorded from 
Ovalau, also in the Fiji Islands. 
