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MaxilUe normal. 



Labium rather longer than wide, truncated at tip. 



Sternum yellow, shield-shaped, hairy. 



Abdomen obovate, yellowish, reticulated, hairy. 



Mr. Jennings secured three 9 specimens of this species, all of 

 which were immature. One of these, when taken, was in the act 

 of moulting; in this example the reticulation was very distinct; 

 moreover there was exposed a long, broad median furrow termin- 

 ating just below the middle, and from which three pairs of short, 

 narrow, lateral grooves proceed ; from the tip of the furrow a 

 long, thin line extends, terminating near the spinnerets. The 

 furrow, although obscured, can be clearly traced in the other two 



specimens. 



G N A T H o p A L Y s T E s, gen.nov. 



This genus should fall between Palystes, L. Koch, and Tychicus, 

 E. Simon. It differs from the former principally by the chelicers 

 being subporrected and by the dentition of the inferior margins, 

 Palystes having three teeth and Gnathojxdystes four; and from 

 Tychicus by the tarsal scopulje, which although dense are not 

 nearly so long. 



C ephalothorax longer than broad, attenuated in front, arched, 

 densely pilose. 



Eyes eight, arranged in two rows of four each; the anterior 

 row is considerably the shorter of the two, slightly procurved, and 

 the two median eyes the smallest of the series; the posterior row 

 forms a straight line, and the eyes comprising it are of equal size 

 and equidistant; the anterior lateral eyes are considerably the 

 largest of the entire group. 



Leys long, robust, densely pilose, armed with long, strong, 

 adpressed spines; tarsi armed with long claws and furnished with 

 scopulse. 



Palpi long, robust, similar in armature to legs. 



Falces robust, long, densely pilose, subporrected, the inferior 

 margins armed with four teeth. 



MaxilUe robust, arched, lateral angles constricted near the 

 centre. 



