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pars cubitalis, projects on outer side a stoutish process, apex 

 fine, curved upwards ; lamina bulbi mahogany-colour, mode- 

 rately hairy ; rather longer than two former articles together, 

 apex obliquely truncated, slope directed outwards, somewhat 

 depressed ; bulbus genitalis chocolate-brown, nearly two-thirds 

 length of lamina ; viewed beneath, from inner side, somewhat 

 triangular ; projecting from apex are two moderately-long, 

 fine, curved apophyses, inner black, outer pellucid ; beneath 

 lamina, on outer side, is a yellow^ish tumid bulb, whose free 

 end extends backwards to radial joint. 



Falces purple-chocolate ; conical, vertical, transversely 

 rugose ; length equal to posterior breadth of ocular area. 



Maxilla red-mahogany colour ; fore-end broad, rounded. 



Labium linear-oval ; colour of maxilliE. 



Stermim reddish-browu ; oval. 



Abdomen linear-oviform ; olive-tinted stone-colour, nume- 

 rous light flecks on lateral margins and dorsal line ; folium 

 browmish, coarsely serrate, encloses a linear-oval, light olive- 

 green mark, w^ith few brown spots ; series of three oblique 

 brown streaks on lateral margins ; ventral surface brownish ; 

 hairs sparse. 



Female. — Ceph. th., long, 3; broad, 2. Abd., long, 4; 

 broad, 2, Legs, 1st pair, 5mm. 



Gephalothorax yellowish - mahogany, caput mottled with 

 creamy-brown, fore-half clouded with a darkish-brown ; few 

 hairs on margin of eye-area ; pars cephalica aplanate, sides 

 moderately abrupt, limited by a somewhat diamond-shaped 

 depression, scarcely equals length of pars thoracica ; profile- 

 line rises from thoracic junction at an angle of 45°, dips 

 slightly forwards across caput ; clypcus vertical, equals radius 

 of a fore-lateral eye in depth ; fringe of light hah-s. 



Angles of eye-area less prominent than males. 



Legs brownish-yellow, anterior pair shade darker, especially 

 four terminal joints ; genual and tibial joints of 1 more than 

 three-fourths length of cephalothorax ; hairs sparse ; few 

 spines on femora ; single spine on inner side of genua of 1 ; 

 tibiae of 1-2, as a rule, 3-4; metatarsi, 2-2; tibiae of 3-4, about 

 4 or 5 ; metatarsi 2, rings of 5 spines. 



ralpi and hind-legs concolorous ; sparsely furnished with 

 hairs ; slender ; length, 2-4mm. 



Falces reddish-mahogany ; broad conical, less pointed and 

 shorter than males, vertical, transversely rugose. 



Maxillce brow^n ; extremity broad, rounded. Labium 

 brown ; linear-oval, about half length of maxillae. 



Sternum oval ; yellowish. 



Abdomen linear-oviform ; ground-colour deep stone-colour, 

 numerous pale flecks ; folium coarsely serrate, olive-brown, 

 encloses a pale, mottled, lanceolate figure, with serrate mar- 



