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tlieir absolute size in some examples appeared to be 

 smaller. In botli sexes there are several small, black, 

 tooth-like, tubercular spines on the inner side of the 

 base of each maxilla, but none at the apex of the 

 labium. 



The colour of the cepltalotliorax in the male is 

 bright-reddish orange-yellow ; a large portion of the 

 sides of the caput, and the ocular area also, is black- 

 brown ; the middle of the thorax is distinctly marked 

 with black-brown lines radiating to the thoracic 

 fovea. 



Other, less deep, brown markings are mixed with 

 these radiating lines ; there are a few prominent 

 bristles in front of the ocular area, a single longitu- 

 dinal line of erect bristles along the middle of the 

 orange band from the eyes to the thoracic fovea, 

 and the whole cephalothorax is more or less clothed 

 with greyish-yellow adpressed hairs. 



The falce-s are of a deep blackish red-brown colour, 

 longitudinally striped with yellow-grej'ish hairs mixed 

 with dark bristles ; and there are some strong spines 

 at the fore extremity on the inner side. 



The abdomen is oval, tolerably convex above, of a 

 dull, pale, straw colour, suffused with brown at its 

 fore extremity, whence an indistinct central longitu- 

 dinal band tapers to a point rather more than half 

 w^ay to the spinners ; on either side of this band 

 are some oblique, lateral, brown lines, which become 

 broken chevrons, between the termination of the 

 central band and the spinners. The sides are 

 obscurely and irregularly marked with brown, and 

 the under side is of a uniform dull straw-yellow ; the 

 abdomen is clothed thickly with mixed yellow-grey 



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