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Show 1877.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON N E W ARANEIDEA. 561 the lateral pairs of eyes is another, shorter, erect, rather slender, blunt-pointed, somewhat nipple-like eminence. The lower fore corners of the clypeus are prominent. The colour of the cephalothorax is pale whitish straw-colour, marked and clouded in a somewhat radiated form, on the sides, with brownish yellow; it is clothed with longish, pale, slender hairs ; and from the middle of the summit of the central ocular eminence issue two longish, black, curved and almost contiguous black bristles. The eyes are small; those of the central group (four in number) form a square on the front of the upper extremity of the middle eminence ; those of each lateral pair are contiguous to each other on the outer side of the summit of the lateral eminences, and are widely removed from the middle group. The legs are neither very long nor strong; those of the first and second pairs differ but little in length, though perhaps the second pair are slightly the longest, and the third pair are the shortest. They are of a straw-yellow colour, semiannulated with brown, and clothed with longish fine hairs. The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, and have a single curved pectinated claw at their extremity. The falces are moderately long and strong, perpendicular, and similar in colour to the palpi. The maxillee and labium are like those of A. trispinosa in form, and are similar to the legs in colour. The sternum is of a somewhat triangular shape ; it is of a yellowish colour, clouded with brownish in the middle, aftd marked with a black spot opposite to the basal joints of the second, third, and fourth pairs of legs. The abdomen is large, very short, subtriangular, or somewhat heart-shaped, extremely convex above, and projects considerably over the base of the cephalothorax. On the upperside are some not very large, bluntish, conical protuberances ; two of them are in a straight transverse line, wide apart towards the fore margins ; the rest, eight in number, are arranged in a somewhat circular group at the posterior extremity. The upperside is of a dull sooty hue, mapped out into rather roundish-angled patches of various forms and sizes, which are divided from each other by clear and intersecting straw-yellow stripes ; most of these patches have a central blackish spot on the fore part; and from each of the three immediately in front of each of the two foremost conical protuberances rises a long, erect, somewhat lanceolate black bristle, there being also several others of the same kind on the sides and hinder part; the patches above described are almost obsolete on the middle and hinder part of the upperside, which are then of a plain straw-yellow colour. The underside is suffused with yellow-brown; the hinder slope (i. e. the part between the protuberances at the hinder extremity and the spinners) and sides are streaked vertically with pale yellow-brown lines. An adult female of this Spider was received from Paramatta (Australia), where it was found by Mr. Barlow, and sent to me by my kind friend Mr. Frederick Bond several years ago. I have also very PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1877, No. XXXVI. 36 |