. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . here are fourhook-shaped marks ; on the lateral margins there are a series of obliquelines converging towards the spinners. On the ventral surface there is ashield-like mark with light margins, and a double row of four pits in thecentre. The vulva consists of a long, curved, dark amber-coloured, wrinkled,taper, membraneous process, directed backwards; beneath it are blackprotuberances. The male is about two-thirds the length of the female. The cephalo-thorax is oval, nearly as broad as long; medial fovea deep ; the anteriorprominenc
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . here are fourhook-shaped marks ; on the lateral margins there are a series of obliquelines converging towards the spinners. On the ventral surface there is ashield-like mark with light margins, and a double row of four pits in thecentre. The vulva consists of a long, curved, dark amber-coloured, wrinkled,taper, membraneous process, directed backwards; beneath it are blackprotuberances. The male is about two-thirds the length of the female. The cephalo-thorax is oval, nearly as broad as long; medial fovea deep ; the anteriorprominence of the caput is more pointed, and the tubercles of the lateraleyes more prominent than in the female ; it has a brownish-amber legs are long, moderately stout, and resemble the cephalothorax incolour ; there is a curved process on the coxae of the first pair ; the tibiae ofthe second pair are tumid, and have four irregular rows of spines on theinferior surface ; the general armature consists of numerous long spines.
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