AZILIA.—KAIRA. 11d 
AZILIA, Keyserling. 
Azilia affinis, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 34 lines. 
Cephalothorax of normal form ; it is yellow in colour, with a broad well-defined longitudinal central dark brown 
band ending in a trifid form just behind the eyes, and with an angular prominent point on each side of 
the thoracic indentation. The oblique grooves denoting the junction of the caput and thorax are marked 
with a short curved dark brown streak, and on each side of the thorax is a broad band of the same hue, 
touching the margins at the fore part and at the caput. 
Eyes normal ; the interval between those of the hind-central pair is slightly greater than that between each 
and the hind-lateral eye next to it. 
Falces deep brown, tinged with reddish. 
Legs moderatcly long, tolerably strong, 1, 2, 4, 3, furnished with hairs and spines; colour yellow, distinctly 
annulated with deep blackish-brown; the spines spring from small spots of a similar hue, giving a 
distinctly speckled appearance to the legs. ' 
Palpi yellow, with blackish annuli. 
Masille and labium dark brown. 
Sternum dark brown, with a central longitudinal yellow streak. 
Abdomen blackish, with a longitudinal central pale dusky stripe on the fore half of the upperside, marked also 
with dusky and white spots, showing a pattern of broad blackish transverse bars and fine white 
transverse lines ; a not very distinct but diffused curved white bar encircles the fore margin and ends 
on each side with an enlarged white spot. The whole of the upperside is covered with short fine greyish 
hairs ; and thus the distinctive pattern is not easily observed. On the underside, between the genital 
aperture and the spinners, is a large, somewhat quadrate white patch. Spinners short, compact, yellow, 
with a broad blackish stripe on each. Genital aperture small, but characteristic in form. 
This spider is nearly allied to <Azilia guatemalensis, Cambr. (antéa, p. 12, Tab. III. figg. 3,4), but may 
be distinguished at once by the legs being not only annulated with dark brown, but spotted with 
black ; the pattern on the cephalothorax also differs a little as well as that of the abdomen, especially 
the large quadrate white patch underneath ; the genital aperture is likewise of a different form. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
KAIRA, Cambridge. 
Kaira dromedaria, sp. n. 
Adult female, length 5 lines ; length of abdomen from the spinners to the summit of the highest hump, nearly 
* 7 lines. 
Cephalothorax yellow-brown, clothed with greyish pubescence; a large somewhat quadrate area on the 
fore part of the caput, including the ocular area, is dark blackish-brown, and on each side of the thorax 
are some ill-defined converging brownish stripes. 
Eyes small; the four centrals, seated on a tubercular prominence, form a small quadrangular figure, almost a 
square, and each lateral pair is a little further from the anterior central eye on its side than the anterior 
centrals are from each other. 
The legs are short, 1, 2, 4, 3, not very strong, those of first two pairs the strongest ; the tibie and metatarsi 
of the 1st and 2nd pairs are rather bent, the femora strongly but not abruptly tumid on the uppersides. 
They are of a dark brown colour, tinged with red-brown, indistinctly marked in parts with blackish ; 
clothed with greyish hairs, and armed with spines, of which those on the inner side of the tibiz and meta- 
tarsi of the 1st and 2nd pairs are most numerous, those on the metatarsi and tibie of the 3rd and 4th pairs 
fewer in number and less strong. 
Palpi moderately long, the digital joint longer than the cubital and radial joints together. They are rather 
lighter coloured than the legs, and are furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines. 
The falces are moderate in length and strength; of a yellow-brown colour, clouded towards their extremity 
with darker brown. 
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