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Show 1 9 0 5 .] SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SPIDERS. 5 8 9 bright yellow-brown stripe of the same colour as on the cephalothorax. The under side of the abdomen is yellow-brown, with a faint shield-pattern marked out by paler side-lines and two similarly coloured parallel lines inside. The cephalothorax is moderately high in front, being two-thirds as high as broad in that part and rather more than half as broad as in its widest part; the median line slightly slopes upwards as far as the rear end of the longitudinal fovea, whence it falls steeply down. The front row of eyes is recurved or straight along the upper edge, the median pair being their diameter apart; the laterals are two-thirds the diameter of the median and the same distance away from them. The clypeus is twice as broad as one median and lateral eye with the space between them. The eyes of the second row are a diameter apart, larger than the front median and their diameter from them. The eyes of the third row are as large as the second, on rather large prominences, and 5 diameters apart. The mandibles are as long as the width in front of the cephalothorax, and have one small and three large teeth on the inner margin of the falx-sheath, with one large between two small on the outer. The lip is slightly broader than long, straight in front and half the length of the maxillae. The sternum is nearly round, and thickly covered with short downlying hair. The abdomen is ovate, straight in front, with four prominent muscle-spots in the anterior half above, with short decumbent hair. The epigyne of the female is oval, the inside oval hollows being in the anterior part of the arch. The palpi are longer than the cephalothorax, and the tibial joint is longer than the patella. The legs are covered with smooth decumbent hair, and there is a not very thick scopula on the tarsus and metatarsus of all legs. Measurements in millimetres. Long. Broad. 4| in front. Cephalothorax ... 9 \ Abdomen ........... H ' Mandibles........... H = lon8ei' than h‘ont Patelk Legs ....... Palpi........ Pat. & Metat. Coxa. Tr. & fem. tib. & tars. 1. 4 9| 11 101 = 35 2 . 3£ 9 101 10 33 3. H 9 10 Q1 - J 2 - 32 4. 4 111 13 38 (4 & 71) 2 H 41 3 14 ( 2 & 2 1 ) |