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HORN EXPEDITION—ARANEIDiE. 
Zora i)iar)iiorea, sp. n. 
Two males and six females from McDonnell Ranges, Palm Creek, and else¬ 
where (unlabelled). 
Cephalothorax yellowish-brown, a band of pale, bristly hair round the side 
edges, giving the appearance of scallops; a darker streak of colour in depressions 
separating the head and breast parts, making it look more separated than it really 
is. Mandibles, raaxilla3 and lip yellowish-red shaded with dark brown. Sternum 
and haunches brownish-yellow with paler yellow hair. Palpi and legs yellowish- 
brown, bright coloured, metatarsi and tarsi rather darker. Hair bright whitish- 
yellow where thickest and darker brown in the thinner hair on the cephalothorax. 
Abdomen bright pale yellow, both upper and under side, mottled with rather 
large dark brown or black spots disposed somewhat irregularly in lines following 
the contour of the sides. Epigyne brown. Spinnerets pale yellow to brown. 
Cephalothorax short, high, steep at the sides and the rear, shorter than the 
patella and tibia IV., 1 to I I mm. longer than broad, rounded at the sides, con¬ 
siderably narrower but rather square in front; shiny, with down-lying single hairs 
thinly spread, except round the edge of the breast part, where they form a thick 
band. Median sulcus rather long, reaching to the rear slope. Cephalic part 
distinguished from the breast part by slight side depressions. 
Abdomen ovate, square in front, sloping to a point at the rear, sides slightly 
rounded. 
Eyes .—Front row straight, eyes round. Side eyes = 1^ diameter of the 
middle eyes. The latter I diameter apart and j of their own diameter from the 
side eyes. The front middle eyes 2 diameters from the margin of the clypeus and 
II from the hinder middle eyes. The rear row recurved, broader than the front 
row by I' diameter each side, about equal in diameter to the front side eyes; 
middle eyes ^ diameter apart, rather more than a diameter from the side eyes, the 
latter on an elevation looking backwards and sideways. 
Mandibles knee-formed from the forehead, thence straight, as long as the front 
patella, rather thickly covered with long thin hairs, which are rubbed oft' in some 
specimens. Claws short and curved, with a thick yellowish fringe on the outer 
edge, which prevents a view of any falx edge teeth. 
Maxillae convex, not impressed, rounded un the outer side, upright, rather 
pointing outwards, fringe on the inner mai’gin reaching down to the lip. 
