268 SPECIFIC DESCRIPTIONS OF 



similar in colour and general armature to the legs ; 

 tliey terminate with a single, strong, sharply curved 

 untoothed claw. 



The f dices are of a , deep black red-brown colour, 

 strong and prominent, and flat, but not cut away, on 

 their inner sides ; they are furnished on their upper 

 sides with black bristles and yellowish-grey hairs, 

 disposed in longitudinal lines ; these bristles are 

 strongest and most numerous on the inner margin of 

 the upper side, increasing in strength forwards where, 

 near the extremity, are some strong spines. 



On the inner edo-e of the under side of each falx is 

 a row of teeth, and each fang is also denticulate or 

 finely serrate, beneath towards its hinder part. 



The maxillce are strong, cylindrical, and divergent ; 

 and each has a small bluntish angular prominence at 

 the extremity on the inner side ; their inner margin has 

 a thick fringe of pale reddish hairs, the fore surface 

 being clothed (as ordinarily) with dark bristly hairs, 

 and there are a few black minute tooth-like spines in 

 a line (sometimes in a small group) near the inner 

 corner of their base. 



The labium is short, broad, its breadth nearly double 

 its length, and the upper corners rather rounded off; 

 there are some strongish bristles, mostly towards the 

 apex, but no tooth-like spines nor denticulations. 



The sternum is oval, rather convex, broadest towards 

 the hinder part, which is pointed at this extremity 

 but hollow-truncate before. 



The abdomen is sparingly clothed with hairs ; it is 

 of a stoutish regular oval form, and of a dull brownish 

 yellow colour ; its fore extremity on the upper side is 

 thickly blotched with deep blackish-brown, and the 



