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impressed spots. Ventral surface disj^lays a yellowish-green 

 elon,t;ate-oval figure bordered \Yitli metallic flecks, extending 

 from the branchial opercula to spinners ; latter brownish, short. 

 Var. a. — Ccphalotliorax and legs shade darker. Abdomen 

 dark olive-brown, lightly suffused with lake ; interrupted wavy 

 lake-coloured lines intersect the more or less pale-yellowish 

 flecks bordering median band. 



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Female. — Ceph.-th., long, 3; broad, 2. Abd., long, 3-8; 

 broad, 2-5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 23, 14, 11-2, 7 mm. 



CcphalotJwrax fulvous, median band suffused with olive- 

 green ; tapers jDosteriorly from hind row of eyes, defined on 

 caput by a dark streak ; sides suffused with similar tinge, 

 border dark ; hairs fine, sparse ; oval lateral constriction at 

 caput moderate ; pars cephalica depressedly convex, facial 

 and lateral index of nearly equal length ; pars thoracica con- 

 vex, fovea large, deep, longitudinal oval ; radial strias faint, 

 caput grooves stronger ; profile-contour rises at an angle of 

 10° across caput, dips to thoracic junction at an angle of 50° ; 

 clijpeus inclined inwards, height about equals diameter of a 

 fore-central eye. 



Posterior row of eyes sensibly j)rocurved — nearly straight ; 

 median pair on dark spots, perceptibly smaller than fore- 

 centrals, separated from one another by rather less ihan their 

 diameter, more than an eye's breadth from side-eyes ; anterior 

 row recurved, centrals posited on a dark moderately j)rominent 

 eminence ; interspace between them scarcely exceeds their 

 radius, separated by rather more than an eye's breadth from 

 hind pair ; laterals rather smaller than posterior-centrals, 

 seated obliquely on separate black tubercles, nearly con- 

 tiguous. 



Legs and cephalothorax concolorous ; femoral joints have 

 three-fourths of basal end lightly suffused with olive-brown, 

 dark rings near apex ; broad ring on patellae ; tibiae and meta- 

 tarsi three annulations ; legs slender ; armature tine erect 

 hairs, slender spines on all joints except tarsi ; superior tarsal 

 claws, first pair long, shghtly curved, 11 close teeth, increasing 

 somewhat in strength ; inferior claw 2 teeth, free end curved, 

 apex forwards. 



Palpi colour and armature of legs ; palpal claw long, mode- 

 rately curved, 7 close teeth, irregular in strength. 



Falccs yellowish-brown, clouded, apices red-chestnut ; 

 somewhat conical, gibbous in front, divergent, inclined sensibly 

 inwards, length equal to the patellar joint of first leg. 



2Iaxillce brown, clouded with dark-brown ; long, apex 

 rounded, enlarged on superior side, divergent. 



Labium darker than maxillas, less than twice as broad as 

 long, roundly pointed, transverse groove. 



