Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XV. New Species of Astieae from Australia Author Żabka, Marek text Records of the Australian Museum 2002 54 257 268 journal article 2201-4349 Arasia mullion n.sp. Fig. 1 Type material . HOLOTYPE Australia : New South Wales : 3, Mullion State Forest , N of Orange , 33°11'S 145°08'E , under bark, 18 Oct 1999 , M. Gray & G. Milledge , AMS KS59179 . Diagnosis . Abdominal pattern more contrasting than in other species of the genus, palpal tibia with ventral apophysis. Description Male ( Fig. 1A ). Cephalothorax pear-shaped, covered with rather numerous white adpressed hairs—especially on sides and with scattered brown bristles. Eye field contrasting orange, AME area dark-brown, other eyes surrounded with black. Thorax orange-brown anteriorly with radial darker markings and darkening towards lower margins. Abdomen dark-grey with light pattern made of guanine crystals. Hairs few, white—especially on sides, and brown. Spinnerets rather long, smudged light-brown. Clypeus narrow Figure 2 . Distributions of Arasia mullion •, Helpis abnormis , Helpis kenilworthi ·, and Helpis risdonica . , dark- orange with some brown bristles. Chelicerae long, dark- brown with orange apices, and with 2 promarginal and 5 retromarginal teeth (Fig. 1D). Pedipalps yellow. Maxillae and labium smudged brown with yellow apices. Sternum only slightly narrower than wide, smudged orange. Venter blackish-grey. Femora I black-brown on sides, distally slightly lighter, dorsally and ventrally light-brown. Patellae I with dark sides, distally and dorsoventrally yellow, tibiae similar in colour, with 5–6 prolateral and 5 retrolateral Figure 3 . Male Helpis abnormis n.sp. : A,B, palpal organ (scale = 0.41 mm); C, leg I (scale = 1.40 mm); D, cheliceral dentition; E, cephalothorax (scale = 0.70 mm). spines. Metatarsi I with 2 pairs of long spines, yellow proximally and distally, the rest brown. Tarsi I yellow. Other legs more delicate and generally lighter, with dark patches on sides of femora, patellae and tibiae. Legs I densely covered with brown hairs, especially on tibiae and metatarsi. Following legs less clothed, hairs lighter. Palpal organ (Fig. 1B,C) elongated, with ribbon-like, long embolus and distinctive ventral apophysis. Dimensions: CL 2.54, EFL 1.04, AEW 1.50, PEW 1.30, CW 2.18, AL 2.91. Distribution ( Fig. 2 ). Known only from Mullion State Forest (NSW). Remarks . Only three species of Arasia are known: A. mollicoma (Koch) , A. eucalypti Gardzińska and the present species, all of them are tree-trunk dwellers in open sclerophyll forests. Arasia aurea (Koch) listed by Wanless (1988) is excluded from Adoxotoma and transferred to the genus Sondra (see below).