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HORN EXPEDITION—ARANEID^. 
Legs very fine and slender, pale yellow, with dark spots here and there at the 
base of the spines. Extremities very fine, thin white hairs rather sparse, short 
fine spines. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalotl 
lorax, length 
- 
24, mm. 
3) 
breadth 
- 
n 
Abdomen length 
- 
4^ j) 
35 
breadth 
- 
•7 
11 
Coxa. 
Troch. and 
Femur. 
Patella and 
Tibia. 
Metat. and 
Tarsus. 
1. 
Leg - 
1 mm. 
3 mm. 
3t> mm. 
3} mm. = 
10| 
mm, 
2. 
Leg - 
- 1 „ 
- 3 “ „ 
- 3 „ = 
3) 
3. 
Leg - 
- 1 „ 
- ,, 
- u „ 
- U „ = 
6 
35 
4. 
Leg - 
- 1 „ 
- „ 
- 3 „ 
- 3 „ = 
10 
53 
llelative length of legs : 1, 4, 2, 3. 
Locality .—Valley of Stevenson River. A single male specimen. 
Nephila, Leach. 
Nephila et'eaiiana, sp. n. (Eig. 3). 
Female .—The cephalothorax has a polished black-brown skin thickly covered 
with silvery-white hair ; on the thoracic part are six bare spots arranged in a 
horseshoe, with a pair of shiny black tubercles near the middle. 
Mandibles black ; sternum, lip and maxilhe red-brown with darker transverse 
band across the former. xVbdomen pale yellowish-brown on back, darkest in the 
middle and paler at the front edge. Sides and under surface covered with a 
network pattern of darker-coloured patches bordered by paler brown lines. At 
epigyne a dark and behind the same a broad, pale, transverse band ; a transverse 
triangular patch in front of the spinnerets. 
Femur, f)atella and tibia of all legs bright red-brown; on the femur patches of 
short white hair ; a scopula of fine black hair from the fore end two-thirds of its 
length along the tibia. Tarsus and metatarsus black, with black spines and hair. 
The Cephalothorax in front is square, and there one-fourth narrower than at 
broadest part. Cephalic part distinct and well raised up; the thoracic part 
