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Show 1902.] MR. H. R. IIOGG ON AUSTRALASIAN SPIDERS. 425 bu. On the underside of the abdomen the black field reaching only two-thirds of distance to spinnerets, and bordered by two white lines (sec. L. Koch)............................................................................. punctatus L. K. c14. Two white longitudinal stripes 011 the underside, without a black field (sec. L. Koch) ...................... nitellinus L. K. Text-fig. 86. c Neosparassus magareyi. A, eyes; B, profile; C, epigyne. N eosparassus MAGAREYI, nov. sp. (Text-fig. 8 6 .) Cephalothorax drill recl-brown, darker in eye-space, light yellow hair; mandibles black-brown, yellowish-white bristles; lip and maxilla? dark red-brown, light red fringes; sternum orange-brown, light orange hair; legs and palpi bright yellow-brown darkening towards extremities, light yellowish bristly hair; abdomen pale greenish yellow all over, rather thickly covered above with stout pale yellow hair, underneath finer and yellower; spinnerets yellow; epigyne brown; the femora underneath ai e yellow mottled with brown spots; the tibia yellow and brown, alternate bands. The cephalothorax is 1 mm. broader than long, broad and truncate anteriorly, rising from the eye-space to nearly halfway, thence sloping posteriorly, the transverse section rises rather abruptly, fovea slight. The mandibles are long and powerful, longer than front patella, and thickly covered with long hair, |