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Fam. ATTIDiE. 

 Gen. Attus, Walck. 

 Attus pullHs, sp. nov. 



Female.— Ge]A\.-\\\., long, 2-8; bi-oad, 2. Abd., long, 4; 

 broad, 3. Legs, 4, 3, 1-2 = 6, 5-5, 5 mm. 



Cephalothorax brown-black; rather thickly clothed, except 

 on eye-area, with pale straw-coloured and brownish adpressed 

 hairs, and rather long erect black hairs; clypeas fm'nished 

 with long whitish hairs, directed obliquely forwards ; elevated ; 

 pars thoracica, sides moderately rounded; about twice the 

 length of caput ; pars cephalica flatly convex above, lateral 

 margins abrupt ; contour of profile slopes forwards with a per- 

 ceptible curve, dips at an angle of 40^ to thoracic junction ; 

 height of clyjjeus nearly equals diameter of a lateral eye. 



Anterior row of ejjes slightly recurved ; laterals perceptibly 

 more than their breadth from centrals ; latter pair two-thirds 

 that space from each other ; posterior and anterior lateral eyes 

 of about equal size, form a quadrilateral figure one-third 

 broader than long ; eyes of second row intermediate. 



Legs yellowish ; first and second pairs have a red-chestnut 

 tinge ; femoral joints clouded ; brown annulations— more pro- 

 nounced on tw'o hind pairs — at articulation of joints ; armature, 

 short yellowish and long black hairs ; normal spines on 

 femoral, tibial, and metatarsal joints ; patella and tibia of first 

 leg, of about equal length and strength, together equal to two- 

 thirds length of cephalothorax ; tibia three-fourths length of 

 metatarsus. 



Pal2)i yellowish, faint-brown rings; whitish hairs; long 

 black bristles. 



Fakes red-chestnut ; vertical, somewhat conical, trans- 

 versely rugose. 



Maxilke, fore-end dilated and rounded ; inclined towards 

 lip ; yellow-brown, base chestnut. 



Labium blackish ; conical, about one-half length of 

 maxilhi3. 



Sternum light-brown ; oval ; fairly clothed with whitish 

 hairs. 



Abdomen oviform, projects moderately over base of cepha- 

 lothorax ; dark stone-colour, clouded with indigo-black ; fairly 

 clothed wdth light straws-coloured, adpressed, and erect black 

 hairs ; ventral surface browai. Vulva stone-colour, shaded with 

 black ; displays two oval moderately-depressed areas, sur- 

 rounded by rather narrow costae, intersected longitudinally by 

 a septum about one-half the width of their transverse diameter; 

 posterior two-thirds of area occupied by tw^o reddish, dark- 

 margined, oval fovese. 



