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The e^es are on a strongisli oblong dark brown 

 transverse tubercular eminence ; the fore-laterals are 

 rather smaller than the hind-laterals, and the fore- 

 centrals are larger than the hind-centrals, the latter 

 being much the smallest of the eight ; the interval 

 between those of each lateral pair is about equal to, 

 or slightly larger than, the diameter of one of the 

 fore-central eyes ; the intervals between the four eyes 

 of the front row are equal, each interval being equal 

 to the diameter of one of the fore-centrals ; and each 

 hind-central eye is separated from the fore-central 

 nearest to it by as nearl}^ as possible a similar distance, 

 and from the hind-lateral on its side by a very small 

 but distinct interval. 



The le^s are rather long, strong, of a brownish- 

 yellow colour, suffused with blackish-brown on the 

 upper sides of the femora, and furnished with hairs, 

 bristles, and spines. Those of the hinder (fourth) pair 

 were wanting, the relative lengths of the others being 

 1, 2, 3; 2 and 3 being very nearly equal. The spines 

 are not numerous, being disposed mostly on the tibise 

 and metatarsi of the third pair ; some, however, had 

 been evidently broken off; all the tarsi were without 

 spines ; each tarsus ends with three claws, the supe- 

 rior pair with several — -6-8 ? — teeth on their under 

 sides. 



The tibial joint of each of the first pair is short, no 

 longer than the genual joint, but it is strong and 

 enlarged gradually beneath to its fore extremity, 

 where it ends in a strong, sharp-pointed, tapering 

 red-brown curved spine, directed downwards, forwards, 

 and inwards. Each tarsus of the first and second pairs 

 is pretty thickl}^ fringed just below on each side along 



