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other by a space equal to about once their individual diameter; 

 the minute lateral eyes are seated nearly on a line with those of 

 the second row, but are oblique; the posterior and lateral eyes 

 are equal in size to those of the anterior row, and are separated 

 from each other by a space equal to 2-2 mm. 



Le(js long, strong, and tapering, dark brown, hairy, and armed 

 with long and strong spines ; the metatarsi and tarsi of the 

 anterior pairs are furnished with scopul*; tarsal claws strong, 

 and furnished with three small teeth. Relative lengths : 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Palpi moderately long, similar in colour and armature to legs. 



Falces black, long, strong, clothed with long, coarse, grey hairs; 

 apices divergent; the margins of the furrow of each falx are 

 armed with three strong teeth. 



Maxillce arched, dark brown, thickly clothed with coarse hairs. 



Labium concolorous, hairy, broader towards apex than at base, 

 arched, apex obtusely truncated. 



Sternum reddish-brown, shield-shaped, moderately arched; 

 truncated in front, glossy, and clothed laterally with dark brown 

 pubescence. 



Abdomen obovate; superior surface and sides dull yellowish- 

 brown, pubescent; inferior surface concolorous, but relieved by 

 two uneven lateral lines of dull white, gradually tapering towards 

 the posterior extremity; within these lines there is a series of six 

 dull white spots, arranged in three series of two each; of these 

 the pair near epigyne are the widest apart, and the third and 

 last pair nearly touch each other. 



'Epiqyne a small tubercular eminence, dark brown laterally, but 

 reddish-brown at the centre and in form somewhat like an inverted 

 horse-shoe. 



X,oc. — Tamatave Station, Mambai^e River. 



Family LYCOSID^. 



Genus Dolomedes, Latr. 

 48. Dolomedes albo-cinctus, Dol. 

 Z,oc. — Panneata. 



