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with a pair of elongate piriform dark posterior discs, each 
connected with a dark angularly curved duct, appearing 
in the centre of each area, and a pair of larger somewhat 
circular dark discs just beneath the anterior margins of 
each area. . ae . os 
2. Abdomen with a broad black anterior marginal band, fol- 
lowed by a broad pale encircling band, extending obliquely 
down the sides; with a broad pale central dorsal band, 
angular in the middle, resolved into chevrons above the 
spinners; with a conspicuous white and black twin-spot 
on each side just beyond the middle; lower lateral area 
with a longitudinal white speckled band. Vulva con- 
sisting of a transverse-oval area, its own diameter from 
the rima, divided into a pair of spiro-circular areas, the 
spiral duct terminating in a central black spot ; between 
these and the rima lies, more or less distinctly, another 
spiral duct, in some examples connected with a small dark 
circular disc. 
b'. Abdomen very distinctly marked with a large pale orange 
oblique shoulder-spot, followed by a central pale band, 
resolved into a series of pale chevrons, to the spinners, with 
a pair of white spots nearer together about midway and 
four white spots further apart in the apical half; lateral 
area brown. Vulva consisting of a pair of large oval 
adjacent areas, a quarter of their diameter remote from the 
genital rima, each with a short spiro-circular duct connected 
with a central dark spot 
6b. Vulva presenting two pairs of adjacent dark discs close to the 
genital rima, a larger posterior and a smaller anterior pair. 
1. Sternum almost twice longer than broad. [Carapace brown, 
margined with white, including the clypeus. Abdomen 
olive-brown, with an anterior marginal black line and five or 
six pale chevrons towards the spinners; ventral area pale, 
with a broad central sooty-black band. Vulval area broad, 
oval-circular, transverse, divided anteriorly into a pair of 
ellipsoidal cavities, separated by a narrow septum, with a pair 
of larger oval transverse dark discs situated on the genital 
rima, and a pair of smaller oval brown discs longitudinally 
situated on each side of the central septum. ] . 
2. Sternum scarcely longer than broad, almost circular. 
a’. Cephalic area clothed with rose-pink scales, a short central 
and a broad posterior-lateral marginal band of white 
hairs. Abdomen dark olive-brown, with a broad central- 
dorsal pale band, widening, dilate behind and narrowing 
albicincta. 
conspecta, Peckh. 
alacris, Peckh. 
mazillosa. 
