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Syspipa pubicunda, sp. nov. (PL XVI., Fig. 2). 



The cephalothorax is ruddy brown, rather paler in the middle, 

 with two black-brown, broadish stripes running from the eye- 

 space to the rear slope, where it is again reddish brown to the 

 margin. The paler parts are covered with orange hair, with five 

 black-brown spots I'ound the sides of the thoracic part, and two 

 narrow, dark stripes on the sides of the cephalic. The mandibles 

 are black-brown, with red fangs and thick brown hair on falx. 

 Lip, maxillae, sternum, and coxae, black-brown, with dark brown 

 and grey hair. 



The abdomen above is dark brown, with orange hair irregularly 

 mottled with large spots of black hair. The underside is black, 

 with black hair and four longitudinal white stripes running from 

 the epigyne to the spinnerets, which are dark yellowish brown. 



The legs and palpi are brown on the femoral joint, the lower 

 parts pale orange. 



The Cephalothorax is convex, oval, narrowing in front to half 

 the width between second and third pairs of legs. It is longer 

 than patella cum tibia of fourth pair. A rather deep median 

 sulcus reaches from the rear slope to the pars cephalica. A thick 

 fillet of hair surrounds the edge of the thoracic part. 



The front row of eyes is straight, the middle pair being twice 

 the diameter of the side eyes, half their diameter apart, and one- 

 third diameter from the side. The clypeus is half the diameter 

 of the front middle eyes in width. The rear row of eyes is 

 straight, or slightly recurved, broader than the front row. The 

 eyes two-thirds the diameter of front middle pair. The two 

 middle are their diameters apart, same distance from front middle, 

 and one and a half diameters from the rear side. 



The Mandibles are knee-formed at base, longer than front 

 patellae, and as thick as front femur. They ax'e thickly covered 

 with down-lying brown hair on the upper two-thirds ; a few up- 

 standing black hairs near the point. The fangs are stout and 

 long ; two teeth on the inner falx edge. 



The Maxillae are upright, arched with thick fringe on the inner 

 margin, longest at the top end. The Lip is truncate anteriorly 

 arched, and springs from a short neck. It is as broad as long, 

 and less than half the length of the maxillae. 



