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indentations are well marked, but those wliicli divide 

 the caput from the first thoracic segment do not unite 

 with the extremities of the junctional fovea, being 

 in this respect unlike Ct JSfoggriclgii, but more like 

 Ct. Sauvagii. The cigpeus, although transversely im- 

 pressed, yet slopes forward more gradually than in 

 either of those species, its breadth is about equal to 

 that of the ocular area, or amounts to half that of the 

 facial space. The colour of the cephalothorax, taken 

 from the specimen preserved in spirit of wine, is a 

 deep reddish-3'ellow brown, gradually getting paler 

 towards the marg-ins. When alive, I understand that 

 the general colour of the whole spider was a dark 

 blackish chocolate brown, the legs and cephalothorax 

 being darker than the abdomen ; there are a few 

 prominent bristly hairs in the medial line both before 

 and behind the ocular area. 



The eges form a narrow transverse oblong figure, 

 its length being about two and a half times its width, 

 and its fore side is a little the shortest ; the fore-lateral 

 eyes are large and oval, and by far the largest of 

 the eight ; the rest do not differ much in size, though 

 perhaps the hind laterals, which are also oval, are a 

 little the largest ; the longest diameter of these, how- 

 ever, is less than half the longest diameter of the fore 

 laterals. The interval between the fore and hind 

 laterals is small, only equal to the shortest diameter 

 of the hind lateral; and this interval is nearly double 

 that which separates each hind lateral and the hind 

 central nearest to it. The hind laterals and hind 

 centrals form an almost perfectly straight line, the 

 former being very slightly indeed within the straight 

 line of the former ; the intervals which separate the 



