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Show 1902.] NEW IIARVEST-SPIDERS. .399 into a process which is about one-fourth the length of the segment; 4th leg smooth. Measurements in mm.:- § . Length of carapace 2 ; of basal segment of mandible 6, second segment 7. Loc. Macedon, in Victoria (H . R. Hogg). The male specimen, which is unfortunately somewhat damaged, differs from that of the type of M. serritarsus (Sorensen) in the smaller size of the patellar apophysis of the palp. Genus P an to p sa l is Sim. P an to p sa l is a l b ip a l p is , sp. n. c?. Colour a tolerably uniform brown; palpi pale yellowish white. Carapace with a few small spicules in front of the tubercle, and a few on the posterior slope of the latter. Mandibles twice as long as the carapace, slender except for the club-like expansion of the distal end of the 2nd segment; spicular and tubercular all over. Palpi unarmed, patella and tibia subequal. Legs with trochanters unarmed ; femora sparsely and weakly spicular, remaining segments unarmed except for some terminal spicules above on the patella?. Measurements in mm.:-Length of carapace 2-5 ; length of basal segment of mandible 11*5, distal segment 13. Loc. New Zealand : Maungatua, S. of Dunedin (./. V. Jennings). Whether or not this species is based on the male of P. lister i White (P. Z. S. 1849, p. 6, and Simon, CR. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxii. p. lxxiii, 1879) from the Middle Island, New Zealand, I am unable to say. The British Museum has two examples that I refer to P. listeri White, ticketed New Zealand (£ Samarang '), and Grey-mouth, N. Zealand. In both, as in P. albipalpis, the palpi are pale as described by Simon, and the mandibles are much shorter and thicker than in the type of P. albipalpis. I infer that these examples are females on account of the resemblance in the structure of the mandible that they present to the female specimen referred to below as the female of P. nigripalpis. P an to p sa l is n ig r ip a l p is , sp. n. (Typical fo rm .) Colour deep blackish brown; palpi as dark as the legs. Further differing from the preceding species in having the terminal portion of the second segment of the mandibles much less clavate, and the tubercles on the mandibles fewer and sharper. Measurements in m m .L e n g th of carapace 2 ; 1st segment of mandible 9, 2nd 10. Loc. New Zealand : Dunedin (G. M. Thomson). Subspecies sp ic u lo sa , nov. <-?. Coloured like th e typical P. nigripalpis, from which it |