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grooves and indentations indistinct. Clyjyeus broad, moderately 

 convex, and with a strong deep indentation posteriorly. Marginal 

 band narrow, dull black, sparsely furnished with minute black 

 hairs. 



Eyes of pearl-grey lustre ; the four intermediate ones are seated 

 on a prominence, forming a square, or nearly so, and are the 

 largest of the eight ; the lateral pairs are much the smallest, and 

 are placed obliquely on small tubercles, but are not contiguous. 



Legs long, moderately strong, pale yellow with dark annulations 

 at joints, and each furnished with long coarse blackish hairs and 

 small spines ; relative lengths, 1, 2, 4, 3. . 



Palpi long, strong ; the first, second, third and fourth joints 

 pale yellowish ; fifth yellowish-brown at base, but deepening to 

 dark brown at tips ; similar iu armature to legs. 



Falces glossy mahogany-brown, powerful, articulated on inclined 

 plane, furnished with a few short yellowish sessile hairs, and 

 armed with teeth on the inner surface. 



Maxilloi concolorous, short, strong, slightly concave at apex. 

 Labium concolorous, short, broad, and rounded off at apex. 

 Sternum elliptical, dark brown, sparsely furnished with short 

 hoary hairs. 



Abdo7nen ovate, projecting over base of cephalothorax, convex 

 above, furnished with long white and a few short black hairs ; 

 colour ochreoiis-yellow, with large, prominent, dark-brown patch 

 towards anterior extremity, the outer margin of which is ochreous- 

 red; there are also two narrow and somewhat sinuous longitudinal 

 ochreous-red stripes commencing towards the centre and terminat- 

 ing at the abdominal extremity ; the space between these stripes 

 is ochreous-yellow, mottled with reddish-brown ; besides these 

 there are also four large black spots near the middle, and a few 

 exceedingly minute ones distributed over the upper surface. The 

 sides of tlie abdomen are furnished with curved oblique markings, 

 of a dark brown colour, which unite near the upper surface ; the 

 colour of the spaces in between these is ochreous-yellow, mottled 

 with dark brown. Inferior surface convex, black, with a rather 



large patch of bright yellow between spinnerets and epigyne. 

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