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to oval marks ; between latter marks and spinners are a series 

 of three transverse, oblique, more or less pronounced, dark 

 bars, fore-pair terminate with a white spot. Ventral surface 

 yellowish ; shield brown. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 2-8; broad, 2. Abd.,long, 4; 

 broad, 3-2. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 14, 10, 8, 6 mm. 



Cephalothorax brownish-yellow; dorsal mark olive-brown; 

 somewhat fan-shaped on base of pars cephalica, compressed 

 across pars thoracica ; rugulose ; almost glabrous ; oval, mo- 

 derately compressed forwards, lateral index exceeds breadth of 

 eye-area; normal grooves fairly marked, fovea deep, somewhat 

 circular ; protile-line represents a moderate double arch ; 

 clypens in height rather exceeds diameter and a half of a fore- 

 central eye. 



Posterior row of eyes procurved, sensibly exceed fore-row 

 in size ; centrals on black, oval spots, separated by an interval 

 scarcely equal to their diameter, half that space from laterals 

 next to them, their breadth and a half from fore-ceiitrals ; 

 anterior row recurved ; median pair seated on slight promi- 

 nences, interspace rather exceeds their breadth, separated by 

 scarcely their diameter from side-eyes ; laterals seated ob- 

 liquely, one-fourth their breadth apart, on dark, tubercular 

 eminences. 



Legs brownish-yellow, more or less defined brown annu- 

 lations ; slender ; yellowish hairs, spine armature similar to 

 males ; superior tarsal claws — 1st pair, sHghtly curved, 14 

 olose teeth, increasing a little in length ; inferior claw long, 

 2 teeth. 



Palpi resemble legs in colour and armature ; length 4mm. 

 Palpal claw moderately curved, long, 7 teeth. 



Fakes yellowish, glossy ; vertical, conical, tumid and pro- 

 jecting forwards at base. 



Maxilla; rather longer than broad, apex wide, slightly 

 rounded ; yellowish. Labium less than one-half length of 

 maxillag, somewhat oval, broader than long, everted ; olive- 

 brown. 



Sternnm cordate; eminences opposite coxte ; yellow-brown, 

 margin brownish. 



Abdomen oviform, projects moderately over base of cepha- 

 lothorax ; light stone-colour; folium sinuate, olive-brown, 

 stone-coloured flecks ; on fore-third are a series of undulating 

 angular marks — apices directed forwards, of a light stone- 

 colour, except the largest and posterior one, which has a 

 creamy-white hue, anterior margin reddish-pink ; from the 

 latter mark a narrow subulate light stone-coloured mark ex- 

 tends half-way to spinners ; on dorsal line, intersecting the 

 pattern, is an olive-brown streak, which takes a hastate form 

 on the creamy angular bar ; a series of brownish oblique broad 



