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chocolate-brown ; legs and palpi, brown ; abdomen above green- 

 ish-brown with two longitudinal rows of brown-rnargined yellow 

 spots, at the sides greyish, and below dusky-brown with four 

 more or less continuous longitudinal whitish stripes converging 

 towards the anus. At the base of the dorsal surface there is a 

 short median spathixlate band of paler hue than the rest of that 

 surface, and on each side of this band a short grey fleck. The 

 cephalothorax and abdomen are densely covered with grey, 

 yellow, and brown pubescence. 



Cephalothorax about 1 mm. longer than broad at the broadest 

 part, between the 2nd and 3rd pair of legs about twice as broad 

 as at the anterior part of the caput, rounded at the sides, pos- 

 terior slope very, and lateral slope moderately, steep ; fovea very 

 long, extending from half-way down the posterior declivity to the 

 pars cephalica. Seen in profile, the pars thoracica is almost 

 straight above, highest between the posterior row of eyes ; 

 ocular area very hairy and sloping gently from the posterior to 

 the middle row of eyes, and thence very steeply to the anterior 

 row ; clypeus vertical and furnished with longish white hair in 

 the middle. 



Front row of eyes slightly curved downwards, the centrals 

 larger than the laterals, and more distant from each other than 

 from the laterals, the latter on small blackish tubercles ; the eyes 

 of the other rows are furnished with eyebrows, and do not differ 

 much in size; those of the posterior row look outwards and 

 backwards, and are placed under large black tubercles. 



Falces hairy, somewhat convex near the base, and slightly 

 diverging towards the extremities ; on the posterior side of the 

 groove 4 sub-equal rather blunt teeth, and on the anterior 

 side at the base 2 teeth, the lower of which is large and the 

 upper minute ; claw short, and not much bent. 



Maxilla convex, narrowest at the base, and greatly increasing 

 in breadth towards the extremities, rounded on the outside, and 

 truncated on the inside in front, where there is a dense reddish 

 fringe. Labium slightly convex, rather more than half as long 

 as the maxilla, sub-quadrate in outline, constricted at the base, 

 widest near the middle, and truncated in front, where it is of a 

 pale hue, and furnished with a fringe of coarse hair. 



Sternum cordate, convex, the lateral and posterior margins 

 wavy and densely woolly. 



Abdomen ovate, slightly broader than the cephalothorax ; the 

 superior spinners the longest, and the central the shortest ; the 

 superior slender, and somewhat curved inwards ; the inferior 

 stout and of the shape of an obliquely truncated cone. In front 

 of the latter is a small process that resembles a seventh spinner. 



Legs strong ; tarsi armed with a scopula, but destitute of 

 spines; metatarsi spinous above and below; tibia? of the 3rd 

 and 4th pairs spinous above and below, those of the 1st and 2nd 



