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Show 1902.] MR. II. R. HOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 429 N eosparassus p a t e l l a tu s (Karsch). Heteropoda patellata F. Karsch, Zeit. ges. Naturw. Berlin, vol. li. 1878, p. 809. Sec. Karsch, near the above-named V. calligaster (Thor.); but without any special distinction is a little doubtful. Loc. Tasmania. N eosparassus s a l a c iu s (L. Koch). Heteropoda salacia L. Koch, Die Arach. Aust. p. 737. Sparassus salacius Thorell, Rag. Mai. vol. iii. 1881, p. 255. This rather large species has a broad transverse black band in front of spinnerets as well as shield behind genital fold. The male palp flagellum has 10 spirals ; and although the species is brightly coloured (yellow and black) like a Sparassus, it has very little to differentiate it from Isopeda. Cape York ; Rockhampton ; Bowen ; Peak Downs ; Sydney ; Upper Endeavour River, Queensland (Hogg). N eosparassus conspicua (L. Koch). Heteropoda conspicua L. Koch, Die Arach. Aust. p. 717. Bowen; $ • N eosparassus pu n c ta tu s (L. Koch). Sparassus punctatus L. Koch, Besch. n. Ar. & Myr., Verh. k.-k.- zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1865, p. 872. Heteropoda punctata L. Koch, Die Arach. Aust. p. 719. Sparassus punctatus Thor. Rag. Mai. vol. iii. 1881, p. 259. Cape York (Thor.) ; Bowen, Port Mackay, Wollongong, Rockhampton, Peak Downs, Sydney (L. Koch) ; Dimboola, Victoria, Central Australia (Hogg). N eosparassus n it e l l in u s (L. Koch). Heteropoda nitellina L. Koch, Die Arach. Aust. p. 722. Peak Downs; $ . Genus I sopeda L. Koch. Isopeda L. Koch, Die Arach. Austr. vol. ii. p. 678 (1875). Voconia Thor. Aranese nonnullse Nov. Holl., in Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1870, no. 4, p. 383. Holconia Thor. Rag. Mai. e Pap. vol. i. 1877, note p. 145. Isopoda Thor. Rag. Mai. e Pap. vol. in. 1881, note p. 293. Isopoda E. Simon, Rev. Sparass. 1880. Holconia E. Simon, Hist. Nat. des Ar. vol. ii. p. 44. Type species, Isopeda vasta L. Koch. This genus, both in number of specimens as a whole as well as of species (or subspecies), is by far the most largely represented of the group in Australia. Its limitations are not very clearly d e f in e d , but certainly include Thorell's genus Holconia. It would |