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arched, obtusely attenuated in front and at rear. Abdomen. — 

 Elongate, cylindrical. Spinnerets. — Elongate, cylindrincal, 

 apices trmicated, and encircled with well-developed s[)iiinerules. 



EpICHARITUS LEUCOSEMLiS,* Sp. )IUV. 



(Plate xiv., tigs. 9 and 10). 



9 Cephalotliorax, 2.8 nini, lung, 1.3 nun. Ijioad ; abdomen, 

 2.6 mm. long, l.'S mm. broad. 



CepJmhilltorK.r. — Oblong-ovate, smooth, daik-broAvn (almost 

 black), shining, and when viewed with strong light, displaying 

 coppery reflections ; there is a number of sliort, stiff hairs 

 scattered over the surface ; junction of cephalic and thoracic 

 regions not indicated. F((rs cei>halica not higher than thoracic 

 segment, strongly arched, gently sloping forward, obtuse in 

 front; ot'c^(?ar area broader than long; chjpeus narrow, deep, 

 and fi'inged with long black bristles. Furs thoracica strongly 

 arched, sloping gently to posterior angle which is slightly 

 indented ; marginal hainl narrow. Eyes. — Arranged in two 

 rows of four each ; anterior row slightly procurved, and 

 posterior row strongly so. The eyes constituting the anterior 

 row, are grouped together compactly ; the median pair are 

 round, and separated from each other by a space equal to half 

 the individual diameter of a median eye; lateral eyes elliptical, 

 placed obliquely, and each close to its median neighbour; rear 

 eyes sensibly smaller than the median front eyes; of this series 

 the outer eyes are slightly smaller than their inner neighbours, 

 from which each latei'al eye is I'emoved by a space equal to 

 once its own individual diameter; inner eyes separated from 

 each other by a space equal to toui' times tiieir own individual 

 diameter ; each anterior median eye se])arated from the pos- 

 terior median in an oblique line by a space equal to twice its 

 individual diameter (Fig. 8). Leyf.- — Moderately long, robust, 

 concolorous with cephalotliorax, clothed with long hairs, and 

 bespined. Falpi. — Model ately long, similar in colour and 

 armature to legs. FaJces. — Shoit, very weak; inferior margin 

 of furrow armed with three small teeth, and the superior with 

 two; fang short, very weak. Maxillo'. — Long, stout, con- 

 coJoi'ous with cephalothorax, arched, sparingly hairy, apices 



* AciKocrr7/Aos = white marked. 



