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Show 694 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON N E W [Nov. 18, The maxillee are moderately long and straight, rather broadest at their extremities, which are somewhat obliquely truncated on the outer side, but a little inclined to the labium, and similar in colour to the falces. The labium is short, of a semicircular form, and rather darker in colour than the maxillee. The sternum is heart-shaped, and like the falces and maxillee in colour. The abdomen is oval, tolerably convex above, and projects a little over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a pale dull brownish hue on the upperside, and marked with two irregularly dentated longitudinal black bands, leaving a central longitudinal pale brownish band, more or less regularly dentated at its hinder half, where it often takes the ordinary form of a series of triangular markings or angular bars. The pale brown portions are more or less covered with bright white fleck-like spots; the sides are blackish, and the underside dull yellowish brown. The genital aperture is small, of a somewhat oval form, and is divided by a short, obtusely pointed process. The spinners are small, short, and of a dull yellowish hue. The male resembles the female in colours and markings, but is smaller, and its legs are longer. I have received examples of both sexes of this Spider from several parts of N e w Zealand, kindly sent to me by Mr. Faraday, Mr. A. S. Atkinson, Dr. Llewellyn Powell, and Captain F. W . Hutton. LINYPHIA PERAMCENA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 12.) Length of an adult male 1-^ line, and of an adult female the same. The cephalothorax is of a broad-oval form behind, the anterior part much narrower, the marginal constrictions on each side of the caput being moderate. Its colour is a dark reddish black-brown, getting paler on the fore part of the caput and towards the lateral margins, and leaving a well-defined, narrow, longitudinal, slightly tapering orange-yellow band along the middle, from the eyes to the posterior margin. The profile line from the eyes backwards forms a slight but even curve; the ocular area is rather prominent, owing to the strong tubercles on which the eyes are placed, and the height of the clypeus is nearly about half that of the facial space, or perhaps rather less. The caput is furnished on the upperside with a few hairs, directed forwards. The eyes are of a dark grey hue, of tolerable and nearly equal size, excepting those of the fore-central pair, which are much the smallest; all are on black tubercular spots; those of the hind-central pair are rather further from each other than each is from the hind-lateral eye on its side, the interval being no more (if as much) than half a diameter. The anterior row, looked at from in front, is straight, though, from the much larger size of the lateral eyes, it looks as though a little curved, with the convexity of the curve directed backwards. The eyes of each lateral pair are placed contiguously to each other on a strong rounded tubercle, their direction being straight (that is, not oblique, as is commonly the case). The general position of the eyes |