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extremity, rather on the underside, is a not very long but strong apophysis, comprising the greater part 
of the side of the joint and directed downwards ; its extremity is truncate, and its inner side is hollow or 
excavated. The digital joint is of great length, its hinder part oval, its fore part drawn out into a 
stoutish finger-like form. Palpal organs rather simple, consisting of a somewhat globular corneous lobe 
behind, its fore extremity drawn out into a corneous process which reaches quite to the extremity 
(underneath) of the joint. 
Falces deep brown, pale yellowish on the inner side at the extremity. 
Mazille and labium deep brown, pale yellow at the extremities. 
Sternum black-brown, clothed with short white plumose hairs and (thinly) with coarse, prominent, dark, bristly 
ones. 
Abdomen cylindric-oval ; colour black-brown, with a longitudinal central series of angular coalescent markings 
or diamond-shaped bars, the outer extremities drawn out on each side into a point; two of these, one 
near the fore end, the other about the middle, extend over the sides slightly obliquely ; the fore extremity 
is white, and the ends of the terminal diamond extend laterally so as to form a cincture or horseshoe- 
shaped band round the extremity of the abdomen. All these white markings are formed by short white 
plumose hairs on a pale brownish or yellow-brown ground. The underside is dark yellow-brown, thinly 
clothed with white plumose hairs. The spiracular plates and region of the genital aperture form a homo- 
geneous dark yellow-brown coriaceous plate ending in a circular rugulose socket, into which the 
connecting pedicle is inserted. 
The female resembles the male in colours and pattern, and the genital aperture is simple but of characteristic 
form. In one example of the female the tibia of the fourth pair of legs had a distinct yellow annulus, 
clothed with white plumose hairs at each end, and the abdominal markings were all pale yellow and 
similarly clothed, the underside being clothed only with ordinary hairs. The whole of the colouring of this 
example was paler than the rest. 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
Pedo lachrymosus, sp. n. 
Adult female, length slightly over 35 lines. 
This species in form and general characters and appearance nearly resembles P. ornatus, Cambr. (antea, p. 220), 
and P. plumosus, Cambr. (antea, p. 242). 
Cephalothorax deep black-brown, almost black, clothed with short, white, plumose hairs. 
Legs of first and second pairs orange-yellow-brown, the femora black-brown ; the third and fourth pairs have 
the femora black-brown, the genus, tibix, and metatarsi deep brown to reddish-brown, the tarsi yellow- 
brown. 
Abdomen jet-black, clothed more or less with plumose hairs; the fore extremity is thickly clothed with them ;. 
a slender transverse line of white plumose hairs and another line further back run across towards the 
middle, and a somewhat horseshoe-shaped marking is formed by a white marginal line of the same 
just above the spinners, and the sides appear to have one or more oblique white lines similarly formed. 
The genital aperture is of characteristic form. The spinners appear as if set in a deep circular pit, but 
whether this is occasioned by a shrinking-in of the epidermis is not certain, 
Hab. Mexico, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
MAZAX *, gen. nov. (fam. Drasside ; subfam. Micariine), 
Cephalothorax elongate-oval, much longer than broad, truncate at each end, the anterior end broadest ; lateral 
marginal impressions moderate. Normal grooves and indentations obsolete. Surface of caput and thorax 
uniformly convex. 
Eyes of moderate and nearly equal size, in two transverse rows; anterlor Tow shortest, the convexity of its 
slight curve directed forwards, the central pair rather larger than the laterals, and further apart than 
from these last; the posterior row very nearly straight, the convexity of its very slight, if any,.curve 
* Nom. propr. 
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