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than when viewed from above. The distal half is also slightly 

 bent outwards from the twist, while the foliaceous anterior half is 

 furnished above with a number of longitudinal striae and a wider 

 paler line along the middle, like the leaf of a palm. 



Upper jaw of mandibles with the terminal fang short and rather 

 weak, moderately curved downwards and outwards but without 

 sigmoid flexure, the upper surface rather flattened and slightly dilated 

 internally, the dilation ending angularly or in a minute tooth 

 anteriorly (Fig. 20a). First tooth of upper jaw small, second tooth 

 large, third and fourth small, about as large as the first, fifth (last 

 tooth of the single series) large. Lower jaw with 2 large curved 

 teeth and a smaller tooth between, just in front of the hinder tooth. 



Colour. Ground colour a very pale yellow, but the upper surface 

 and the legs much darkened with purplish black and in places 

 marmorate. Head-plate finely marbled with purplish black, darker 

 near the periphery, more yellowish in the centre, a fine, median, 

 longitudinal line yellow ; the eye-tubercle black. Mandible only 

 slightly marbled, a lateral and a pair of dorsal stripes on the basal 

 part dark purplish black. Tergal plates of abdomen irregularly 

 tinged with purplish black on a yellow background, the lateral edges 

 bordered by a fine black line. Palps from the distal half of the 

 femur to the apex, also the distal part of the femur, the tibia and the 

 proximal part of the metatarsus of the legs more or less purplish- 

 black. Sides and under-surface of abdomen yellowish brown. Hairs 

 reddish ; those on the abdomen paler, reddish yellow. Malleoli pale. 



First six or seven dorsal plates of abdomen nearly devoid of fine 

 hairs, but provided with a comparatively small number of isolated, 

 symmetrically disposed, reddish bristles of various sizes, some being 

 very stout, especially six along the hind margin and two nearer the 

 centre of each plate, these similar to the large ones on the eye- 

 tubercle. Sides and under surface of abdomen thickly clothed with 

 soft hairs. Ocular tubercle with a limited number of bristles, which 

 are symmetrically disposed in a regular semicircle of 5-6 setae 

 round each eye ; the anterior bristle stout, being the largest of the 

 row, the posterior ones decreasing successively, the second of the 

 row also long, the third moderate, situated on the summit of the 

 tubercle, the rest small and on the posterior half of the tubercle ; 

 between the second and third seta is a fine hair, and there are 

 further a small number of fine hairs (4-6) on the anterior part of 

 the eye-tubercle. Palps with many short, stout spines below on meta- 

 tarsus (and a few also on tibia and end of femur), in addition to the 

 scopula and truncated bristles. 



