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tends to hind end and has its lateral margins more or less sinuate, 

 its anterior part more or less ampliated like a broad, blunt arrow- 

 head, the median part above the heart more intensely yellow and 

 sometimes bordered with black (in the latter case the barbs of the 

 arrow-head may become cut off from the shaft or be even almost 

 obliterated) ; lateral part of upper surface with a broad, irregular, 

 infuscate band, which is furnished posteriorly with a longitudinal 

 row of yellow spots or medial bar-like incisions, and which breaks up 

 laterally into a number of black spots on the sides of the abdomen ; 

 under surface with the median and the 2 lateral rows of spots 

 generally distinct ; the epigastric area without black marks. Vulva 

 a brown hairy plate about as long as wide, with a round, reddish 

 black spot near each posterior corner, the posterior margin with a pair 

 of emarginations and a short rounded lobe between them. All the 

 legs strongly browned in the distal half, the 2 distal segments long 

 and slender ; first and second pairs scopulate on the tarsi and 

 metatarsi but not on the tibiae ; third and fourth pairs with a 

 narrow scopula on the sides of the tarsi but none on the meta- 

 tarsi ; basal spines of metatarsus I long, reaching up to or beyond 

 the bases of the mesial spines. Sternum generally with a row 

 of 3 lightly infuscate spots on each side. Ckelicerce with some 

 whitish hairs and fine black bristles in front ; the distal tooth of 

 inferior margin smaller than the other two. 



$ resembling the $ , except that the scopula is reduced to a 

 scanty distal strip on each side in metatarsus I and is practically 

 absent in II, the black bristles on under side of second leg not longer 

 than those on the other legs. Tibia of pedipalp as long as the tarsus. 



Measurements. $ $ 5^-7 mm., $ ? 6-10^ mm. in length. 



A small species, somewhat resembling lativittata, n. sp., in appear- 

 ance, but with the dorsal yellow band on the abdomen less parallel- 

 sided and the lateral part of the upper side of abdomen and carapace 

 not so deeply blackened. It is found under stones, &c., and is fairly 

 abundant. 



