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are all very short. (There are no hairs or spines on the only example seen, but possibly these have been 
rubbed off.) The first pair of legs are black, excepting the tarsi and tip of the metatarsi, which are of 
a dull reddish-brown hue; the other legs are brown, suffused in parts with blackish. The coxe of the 
second pair are almost contiguous to each other, and quite so to the coxe of the first pair, thus entirely 
concealing the maxill and labium, being thrust out (as it were) altogether at the fore extremity of the 
sternal surface, which differs from that of spiders in general in having the legs set into a convex surface, 
and not round and above the edge of a definitely formed plate. 
The falces are short, weak, prominent, and of a pale whitish-yellow colour. 
The palpi are very short, slender, and of a brownish hue. 
The abdomen is large, subcylindrical, or narrow elongate-ovate in form; looked at in profile it is a little 
humped towards the anterior extremity. Its colour above and on the sides is black; on the fore part 
of the upperside are four white spots forming an oblong figure, and each side is marked with four oblique 
parallel dull yellowish-white stripes or dashes, nearly equidistant from each other; at the lower extremity 
of the second stripe from the anterior end is a diffused brownish-yellow marking. The underside is 
yellowish-brown. The genital aperture is of a characteristic form. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
PAPHLAGON, gen. nov. (Epeiride.) 
Cephalothorax oval, of a flattened form, as broad as long, obtusely pointed in front, the lateral impressions at 
the caput moderate. 
Eyes very unequal in size, those of the hind-central pair much the largest, the rest small and not very 
different in size. The four centrals form a large trapezoid much broadest behind, and are seated on a 
strong tuberculiform prominence and each also on an independent eminence. A little way off on the 
outer side and behind each hind-lateral eye is a lateral pair, very minute, contiguous to each other, and 
seated on a slight tubercle. 
Legs rather short, 4, 1, 2, 3, slender, not greatly unequal in length, furnished with hairs only, excepting two 
short fine spines on the inner side of the femora and two or three on the tibie of the first pair. The 
tarsi end with three claws, opposed to which are some other supernumerary ones. 
Mazxille short, broad, obtuse, and bent to the labium. 
Labium short, much broader than long, of a somewhat subtriangular form, very obtusely pointed at the apex. 
Sternum shield- or heart-shaped. 
Abdomen short, oblong-oval, very obtuse at each extremity; some small conical tuberculiform prominences 
chiefly at the posterior extremity. 
Paphlagon beatus, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly over 3 lines. 
Cephalothorax yellow, thickly covered with strong granulations, especially on the sides of the thorax; no 
impression at the junction of the caput and thorax when looked at in profile; the height of the clypeus 
is only equal to the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. Eye-tubercles black. 
Eyes of the hind-central pair with the lateral pairs forming a slightly curved transverse line, the convexity of 
the curve directed forwards. The interval between the eyes of the hind-central pair is much greater 
than that between each and the lateral pair next to it. 
Legs and palpi similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
Falces short, moderately strong, straight, vertical ; rather prominent near their base in front, and similar to 
the legs in colour; three or four short teeth of unequal length at their extremity on the inner side; fang 
short and curved. 
Mazille and labiwm similar to the falces in colour. 
Sternum rather paler. 
Abdomen large, of a luteous-yellow hue, marked sparingly with small cretaceous spots along the middle and 
sides of the upper part; traces of some black lines are visible on the steep posterior slope or bluff end 
above the spinners. There are seven conical tuberculiform eminences on the upperside—one in the 
