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Volume 61 Number 1 
Published 27 May 2009 
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ISSN 0067-1975 
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Cover images —Comparison is an essential aspect of discovery 
in the natural sciences. In the example shown on the cover, Dr 
Marek Zabka has illustrated the cephalothorax and abdomen 
of six salticid spiders from southeastern Australia. Comparative 
studies involving these and many other Australian Museum 
specimens led him to conclude that five represent new species. 
They, and a number of others, were described by Dr Zabka in 
Records of the Australian Museum volume 54 (2002). The six 
images of body-form and pattern are, from left to right, Arasia 
mullion, Helpis kenilworthi, H. risdonica, H. tasmanica, Sondra 
aurea , and S. samamhrayi (see full descriptions in Zabka, 2002, 
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