HORN EXPKDITION—AKANEIIRE. 
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Argiope, Sav. and And. 
Argiope lugubris, L. Koch. 
Two females, one young and the body of the other much broken. 
Locality. —Tempo Downs. Previously recorded from Bowen (Queensland). 
Epeira, Walck. 
Epeira extuberata, L. Koch. 
Locality. —Mereenie Blulf, McDonnell Range. Previously recorded from 
New Zealand. 
Epeira frosti., sp. n. (Fig- 1). 
Cephalothorax dark reddish-brown, darkest on head part, with long, coarse 
white hair ; the mandibles bright darkish red, smooth and polished, with white 
hairs at upper end ; the fangs reddish-brown ; maxilhe and lip bright yellow-brown 
(with orange fringe), front edges yellowish white ; sternum reddish-brown, with 
thick upstanding white haii’s; abdomen black-brown above, mottled with pale 
yellow spots, in deep transverse wrinkles, longitudinal at sides, rather spai’sely 
covered with white hair, yellow lines under the shoulder corners ; underside deep 
brown in wrinkled folds, with a transverse yellow streak near the front •, legs, 
femoral joints red-brown ; patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus almost black at 
edges, but redder in middle and covered with red and white long hairs intermixed ; 
palpi reddish-brown, with rough white hairs and yellow spines \ spinnerets dark 
brown. 
Cephalothorax shorter than patella and tibia IV. One-fourth longer than 
broad (broadest between second and third pairs of legs). In front 3 mm. narrower 
than in middle, rounded at the side, bright coloured and shiny. Head part arched 
longitudinally and transversely. Long thick hair covering sides. Sloping to the 
fx’ont and round on top. 
Eyes. —The four middle eyes form a trapezium, narrowest at the rear and 
stand on a large hump protruding beyond the margin of the clypeus. The 
rear middle eyes a diameter apart. Front middle eyes are twice the diameter of 
the rear middle eyes, and are their diameter distant from the rear and three- 
quartei’S of their diameter apart from one another. The side eyes : each pair 
almost touching on a common protuberance distant from front middle eyes by 
twice the breadth of the front of the trapezium. 
