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CephalotJiorcix dark mahogany-brown, convex, sparingly clothed 

 with long, hoary hairs or bristles. Caput high, arched, obtusely 

 truncated in front, sparingly clothed at sides and base with long, 

 hoary hairs. Clypeus broad, arched, sparingly clothed with long, 

 hoary hairs; median depression and radial grooves indistinct. 



Eyes glossy, black, and arranged in three groups; the median 

 series are seated on a somewhat quadrangular tubercular 

 eminence, and of these the anterior pair are separated from 

 each other by a space equal to fully twice their individual 

 diameter; the lateral pairs are minute, and seated obliquely upon 

 small tubercles, but are not contiguous. 



Legs long, strong, tapering, dark brown, with yellowish annula- 

 tions, clothed with yellowish hairs, and armed with long and 

 strong black spines. Relative lengths : 1, 2, 4, 3, 



Palpi similar in colour, clothing, and ai^mature to legs. 



Falces strong, slightly divergent at tips, glossy brown, sparingly 

 clothed with hoary hairs; each margin of the furrow of each falx 

 is armed with a row of three strong teeth. 



MaxiUcs strong, broad, moderately arched, divergent, of a 

 tawny colour with the exception of the inner margins, which are 

 pallid; the sides sparingly clothed with short, hoary hairs. 



Lahium short, broad, rounded oflF at apex; colour tawny, apex 

 pallid. 



Sternum shield-shaped, glossy, brown, moderately arched, and 

 sparingly clothed with hoary hairs. 



Abdomen ovate, boldly projecting over base of cephalothorax, 

 arched in front, depressed at centre; superior surface of a saffron- 

 yellow, with a median longitudinal bar, which is narrow in front, 

 but gradually widens out towards the centre, and then narrows 

 off again; in addition to this, there is also a series of irregular 

 dark brown streaks and markings at anterior extremity ; 

 abdominal punctures deep and dark brown; at posterior extremity 

 there are two prominent tubercular eminences placed one behind 

 the other; sides dark brown, almost black, sparingly clothed with 

 yellowish pubescence; inferior surface of a dull, dirty brown tint, 



