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Show 1^79.] SPIDERS FROM NEW ZEALAND. 695 reminds one greatly of that of Spiders of the genus Enyo, being also more closely grouped together than those of the typical Linyphia. I think, however, without much doubt, that it belongs to Linyphia, resembling, most nearly, species of the " circumspect a " group. Those of the fore-central pair are separated by a small but distinct interval. The legs are long and very slender, 1, 2, 4, 3; they are of a bright, rather orange-yellow colour, furnished with fine hairs and a very few fine spines, none of the latter, however, being on the metatarsi. The palpi are short, similar in colour to the legs, excepting the digital joint, which is brownish yellow ; the radial is much stronger than the cubital joint; each of these joints has on its fore side, directed forwards, among other shorter and less strong ones, a long, strong, curved, tapering bristle, the two spines running parallel to each other, that on the cubital joint being rather the longest. The digital joint is large, with a large lobe towards the base on the outer side. The palpal organs are prominent, complex, and directed outwards ; at their base on the outer side is a strongish, somewhat crescent-shaped process, whose exact shape is not easily made out, though very characteristic ; there are also other strong, bold processes underneath and at their extremity. The falces are long, moderately strong, divergent at their extremities, and a little inclined backward to the labium. Their colour is dark yellow-brown, and they are armed with a few sharp, but not particularly strong, teeth on their inner sides towards the extremity. The maxillee and labium are of normal form, and similar in colour to the falces, while the sternum is darker-coloured, being as dark as the cephalothorax, excepting in the centre, which is rather paler than the rest. The abdomen is oviform, nearly black, bordered on the upperside by a somewhat broken, dentated, narrow white band, with a longitudinal central series of strongish, well-defined, angular, dull yellow-brown markings, the two anterior ones being much the largest and confluent. The foremost, in fact, represents, both in its form and position, the normal marking, usually found in most Spiders, along the middle of the fore part on the upperside of the abdomen. The underside has also a narrow, marginal, slightly curved border on each side, of a dull colour flecked with white spots. The female resembles the male in colour and markings. The genital aperture is of very characteristic form, and has three parallel, longitudinal, narrow processes running backwards in close proximity to the under surface of the abdomen ; the central process is the longest and narrowest, and is placed between the others and the abdomen. This Spider is allied to Linyphia subdola, and resembles it a good deal in the abdominal portion ; but it is smaller, and the markings of the cephalothorax, as well as the palpi of the male and genital processes of the female, will serve to distinguish it readily. Received from Capt. F. W . Button, from Wellington, N. Z. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1879, No. XLV. 45 |