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front side pair. The latter are round, their diameter smaller 

 than the short diameter of the middle eyes, half their diameter 

 away. The rear side eyes ai'e round, similar in size, a diameter 

 distant from the front side ; being placed obliquely, they are one 

 and a half diameters from the middle eyes, and with the front 

 stand on a black, shiny protuberance. 



The Mandibles are long and straight, slightly knee-formed at 

 the base, and more than twice the length of the front patellar 

 joints. There are a few upstanding fine bristly hairs on the inner 

 front edges ; fangs a reddish yellow. On the inner margin of 

 falx sheath are two large teeth, on the outer edge three teeth, of 

 which the middle one is largest. 



The Lip is nearly twice as long as broad, straight at the sides, 

 truncate at the front edge, with a notch in middle, and a 

 hollowed bordering down each side. It is two-thirds the length 

 of the Maxillae, which are upright, parallel, cut ofi" rather 

 slopingly on inner side, rounded exteriorly, and narrowing 

 towards the base. 



The Sternum is a long shield shape, convex in centre, truncate 

 in front, rather pointed at rear, but not reaching between the 

 rear coxae ; a moderate covering of fine, upstanding hair. 



The Palpi have the femoral joint curved inwards, and rather 

 broadened anteriorly. Tarsal joint long, tapering from a broad 

 base. 



The Legs are moderately long and fine, the femoral joint 

 curved and thickened in the middle, on all pairs, numerous brown 

 spines on underside of tibia and metatarsus of all legs. The 

 tarsal joints are very fine, less than half the length of the 

 metatarsal ; about five pectinations on upper tarsal claws, which 

 spring from a projection at the end of the tarsus, like a small 

 onychium ; no claw tufts. The fourth pair of coxae are as far 

 apart from one another as from the third pair, about one-third 

 their breadth. 



Abdomen. — Long, ovate, truncate anteriorly and smallest at 

 rear. The second pair of tracheal openings are plainly visible a 

 little below the genital aperture near the median line. 



Spinnerets, six. The inferior pair are conical and are raised 

 from a common membranous base. The superior pair are 

 cylindrical, smaller, and stand wider apart. 



