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equal to about one-half their individual diameter ; the pair con- 

 stituting the front row are individually about half the size of 

 one of the rear eyes, and are separated from each other by about 

 once their individual diameter, and the two rows are again 

 separated from each other by a space equal to fully the diameter 

 of one of the posterior eves ; lateral eyes somewhat remote, 

 arranged in pairs ; the two forming each lateral pair are con- 

 tiguous ; of these the rear eye is smaller than its posterior 

 neighbour of the median group, but larger than the anterior ; 

 each lateral front eye is minute. 



Legs. — Long, tapering, yellow, armed with long, slender, black 

 spines ; trochanters and femurs sparingly clothed with fine, pale 

 yellowish hairs ; metatarsi and tarsi rather thickly clothed with 

 long black hairs. Measurements (in millimetres) : — 



Palpi. — Concolorous with legs, short, pubescent, and furnished 

 with a few long, coarse bristles. 



Falces. — Concolorous also ; apices divergent, dark brown ; 

 upper margin of the furrow of each falx armed with four teeth 

 and the lower with three. 



Maxillce and labium. — Normal, pale yellowish ; the former 

 have a few coarse hairs over their surface. 



Sternum. — Shield-shaped, longer than broad, densely hairy, 

 pale yellow, lateral margins dark, with a small yellowish tubercle 

 opposite each coxa of the first, second and third pairs of legs. 



Abdomen. — Ovate, overhanging base of cephalothorax, some- 

 what truncated in front, arched, yellow, finely reticulated with 

 yellowish-brown, has a broad brownish leaf-like design on the 

 upper surface, and a delicate scheme of tracery running down 

 the centre ; laterally there are a few dark brown markings and 

 spots ; on the underside there is a broad dark brown patch 



