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caput and lateral margins clouded with chocolate-brown ; 

 rather sparsely clothed with light hairs ; length scarcely equals 

 the patella and tibia of a leg of 4th pair ; sides well rounded ; 

 lateral constriction at caput moderate ; pars cephalica some- 

 what depressed, roundly truncated, eye-eminence moderately 

 prominent, facial index less than one-half breadth of thorax, 

 lateral index equals space between posterior lateral eyes ; 

 median indentation on pars thoracica deep ; radial striae faint, 

 caput stronger ; contour of profile rises with a slight curve to 

 limit of caput, slopes to thoracic junction at an angle of 40^ ; 

 depth of clypciis scarcely equals diameter of a fore-central 

 eye. 



Posterior row of ejjcs recurved, median pair nearly an 

 eye's breadth apart, rather more than a diameter's interval from 

 anterior centrals, divided from lateral eyes by their space 

 and a quarter; anterior row I'ecurved; centrals about equal to 

 hind pair in size, rather further from each other than they are 

 from posterior pair, nearly their space from side-eyes ; laterals 

 about one-third smaller than centrals, seated obliquely, per- 

 ceptibly more than their radius from one another, on moderate 

 tubercular prominences. 



Lcjjs moderately strong ; yellowish, femora sufiused with 

 lake-chocolate ; patellar brown ; annulations on two first pairs 

 scarcely perceptible ; tibite of hind pairs have two broad, some- 

 what confluent, chocolate-coloured rings ; annulations on 

 metatarsi less pronounced ; hairs light-yellow ; spines on 

 femoral, genual, tibial, and metatarsal joints rather long and 

 numerous, yellow. 



Pa/^;i yellow; hairs sparse; spines slender; length 4-2 mm. 



Falces yellowish, clouded with olive-green ; conical, 

 moderately gibbous in front, inwardly inclined. 



Maxillce, fore-end dilated, somewhat pointed, inclined 

 towards lahium, which is rather broader than long, pointed, 

 everted ; organs dark chocolate-brown, yellowish apices. 



iS^er»?(7M cordate, eminences opposite coxae; dark chocolate- 

 brown, median streak yellow. 



Abdomen broad-oviform, somewhat angular, projects over 

 base of cephalothorax, humeral processes moderately de- 

 veloped ; dorsal shield creamy-yellow, few lake spots ; hairs 

 white, sparse; base somewhat angular, tapers to spinners; 

 four impressed spots form a trapezoid narrowest in front ; 

 lateral margins yellow-brown, clouded with brown, except the 

 upper part of basal end, which is a blackish chocolate-colour ; 

 sparsely clothed with dark hairs, few bristles ; dash of red-lake 

 on ventral surface, sliield dark-green bordered with creamy- 

 yellow. Corpus vulva represents a transversely-wrinkled, 

 glossy, dark amber-coloured hood, drawn out into a broad 

 scapus, margined with a wide elevated beading ; about as broad 



