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are no denticulations at its apex. Sternum oval, 

 truncate before, pointed behind, furnished with 

 bristly hairs, and of the same colour as the legs. 



The abdomen is of an oblono^-oval form, truncate 

 before, and tolerably convex above ; it is of a pale 

 dull yellowish colour clothed with yellow-grey hairs, 

 among which are a good many prominent dark 

 bristly ones ; the fore part of the upper side is irregu- 

 larly marked with black-brown; following this towards 

 the hinder part, and reaching half way or more to the 

 spinners, is an indistinct longitudinal central line of 

 the same colour, throwing off numerous short lateral 

 lines at right angles ; towards either side of the hinder 

 two-thirds of the abdomen are several oblique black- 

 brown lines extending more or less over the sides ; 

 one, about the middle, extends farther over the sides 

 than the rest, and almost unites with a curved deep 

 black-brovv^n transverse line crossing the under side of 

 the abdomen a little way in front of the spinners. 



The under side of the abdomen is similar in colour 

 to the upper side, and, besides the transverse dark 

 line above mentioned, there is another touching the 

 anterior margins of the posterior spiracular plates ; 

 the superior pair of spinners are short and strong ; 

 the inferior pair small, and in the ordinary posi- 

 tion, but apparently not (proportionally) so small as 

 in the females of some other species. 



A single adult male was received for examination 

 from M.Eugene Simon, by whom it was found at Digne 

 (Basses Alpes, France). M. Simon conjectures that it 

 may be the male of Nemesia Moggridgii (p. 273), 

 but some slight differences in the size and positions of 

 the eyes, and in the pattern on the cephalothorax, and 



