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Shape. 



The Cephnlothorax is -001 longer than broad, a deep fovea 

 curving forward separates tlie cephalic part from the thoracic, 

 the latter being separately very convex steeply sloping to the 

 edge all round, a dark coloured median stripe leads from its 

 front edge to a deep circular depression at the top of the rear 

 slope. The cephalic part is also strongly convex within its own 

 borders and higher than the thoracic, rising from the dividing 

 suture. Just above the base of the palpi it is constricted but 

 slightly widens again with circular curves to the front centre 

 from which a tubercle bearing six of the eyes stands out on 

 a somewhat narrowed neck. The two rear side eyes when 

 viewed from above stand far back on the main body of the 

 pass cephalica, near the edge, in front of the constriction, and 

 are about as far apart as their distance from the top front eyes 

 on the tubercle. The rear eyes and the four on the top of the 

 tubercle are equal in size, the lower pair in front of the tubercle 

 being one and half times the diameter of the others. The top 

 front eyes on the tubercle are two diameters apart and the same 

 distance from the hinder pair also on top of tubercle. They are 

 each of them one diameter from the lower larger eye on the 

 same side of the tubercle as themselves. 



The Mandibles are not so thick as the front femur and shorter 

 than patella of same — they are conical, only slightly bowed, 

 parallel on the outer side, and divergent in the lower half of the 

 inner side. The fangs short and well curved, three teeth on 

 outer falx edge, the lower quite small, two teeth on inner edge. 



The Maxillce are broad as long, truncate at top, inner edges 

 parallel, the outer sides curving regularly to a small base level 

 with bottom of Lip., which is broader than long, pointed at top, 

 and less than half the length of the maxillae. 



The Sternum is flat, broadly cordate, sparsely covered with 

 long thin upstanding hair. 



The Abdomen looked at sideways stands upright at right 

 angles with the cephalothorax with which it is joined at about 

 one-third of its height. It is here at its greatest thickness and 

 curves about equally at back and front down to the spinnerets, 

 where it ends iu a point. Upwards from point of juncture wijth 



