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are 1, 4, 2, 3, furnished with hairs only, excepting the metatarsi of 

 the first and second pairs, along the under sides of which are some 

 short, obtuse spines mostly ending with a short, fine bristle. 



The e yes are small and subequal in size ; they are in two 

 transverse rows. The interval between those of the hind-central 

 pair is slightly over a diameter, or about half that between each 

 and the hind-lateral eye next to it. The four central eyes form 

 very nearly a square. Those of each lateral pair are contiguous to 

 each other, and placed obliquely on a small tubercle. The fore- 

 central pair are seated on a small, transverse, tubercular prominence. 

 The height of the clypeus is half that of the facial space. 



The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, slender, furnished with 

 hairs only. The cubital joint is curved, slightly claviform, the radial 

 enlarges slightly and gradually to its anterior extremity and is 

 nearly double the length of the cubital. The digital joint is small 

 oval ; the palpal organs are compact and not very complex in 

 structure. 



The falces are yellow-brown, very strong, divergent, equal in 

 length to the cephalothorax, directed forwards, of a somewhat 

 tapering form, largest near the middle and rather prominent on the 

 upper side, which is furnished with minute denticles each ending 

 with a small bristle ; a group of the same also occupy a space 

 beneath the base of each falx. About the middle of the under side 

 of the falx is a very strong, but tapering, sharp-pointed tooth 

 directed forwards, its point being level with the articulation of the 

 fang. In front of this large tooth are two others very much smaller, 

 nearly but not quite in a straight longitudinal line ; the anterior is 

 the strongest, nearly triangular, and not far from the articulation 

 of the fang, the other smaller and of a somewhat bent form, like 

 that of the large one before mentioned. Towards the base, in front, 

 of the large tooth is a minute denticle. The fang is long, strong, 

 and curved ; when at rest it is directed backwards in the same line 

 as the falx ; it is a little protuberant from near the base to about the 

 middle. 



The maxillce, lab in m, and sternum are suffused with a darker, dull, 

 yellow-brown hue. 



Abdomen oval, of a dull chalky-white colour, the whole upper side 

 occupied by a leaf-shaped marking outlined by a more or less 

 continuous black angulated line ; the hinder extremity of the marking 

 truncated in an incurved form. Along the middle of this marking is 

 a longitudinal black central line crossed anteriorly by another. The 

 spinners are on a black patch, above which on each side are some 



