[Maori.] A poisonous spider (Latrodectus scelio or katipo) of New Zealand and Australia.
1852. Mundy, Our Antipodes (1857), 178. A bite on the face by a venomous spider called by the natives Katipo.
1870. Chapman, in Trans. New Zealand Inst., II. 82. Proofs of the violently poisonous nature of the bite of the Katipo.
