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over its surface. Marginal ba.nd narrow, tinged with red, and 

 sparingly fringed with short white hairs. 



Eijes of pearl-grey lustre with a black band ; the four centrals 

 the largest of the group, forming a square ; the posterior pair 

 separated from the front pair by a space equal to the diameter of 

 one eye, each of them separated from the other on its side by an 

 equal distance ; the lateral eyes the smallest of the group, placed 

 in pairs contiguous to each other, obliquely on tubercles. 



Legs long, pale yellowish ; the trochanter^ femur ^ and tibia of 

 each leg of the first, second, and third pairs with faint reddish 

 annulations, but of those of the fourth pair the femur and tibia 

 alone are so banded ; there are also dark red annulations at the 

 joints of each leg ; all are furnished with short whitish hairs and 

 spines, the hairs being the longest and strongest on the underside 

 of the metatarsi and tarsi; each tarsus terminated with four 

 claws ; relative length of legs, 1, 4, 2, 3, the iSrst and fourth pairs 

 equal, the second slightly shorter, and the third much so. 



Palpi pale yellowish, short, and similar in armature to the legs; 

 each terminated with a rather long curved red claw. 



Falces concolorous, vertical, moderately strong, furnished with 

 a few short blackish hairs; fangs red, 



Maxillce and labium pale yellowish ; the former short, broad at 

 the apex, inclined inwards, and furnished with a few short dark 

 hairs. Lablimi short, broad, rounded off at the apex, and fringed 

 with dark hairs. 



Sternum cordate, i)ale yellow, sparingly clothed with short 

 yellowish hairs. 



Abdomen obovate, convex, slightly projecting over base of 

 cephalothorax ; bright and iridescent like mother-of-pearl ; a 

 large greyish patch in centre of superior surface, in front of 

 which is a curved band of rose-tinted colour, the curvature 

 directed backwards and laterally ; at the posterior portion there 

 are two small elevations, each of them taking a slightly outward 

 direction ; their margins rose-tinted ; the superior surface and 

 sides indented with numerous though somewhat irregular hexa- 

 gonal depressions or cells, the depths of which are of a pearl 



