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The Sterniwi is heart-shaped, rather straight in front, and 

 pointed at the rear end ; arched in centre, and thinly clothed 

 with upstanding bristly hair. 



The Abdomen is oval, rounded in front and at sides. It is 

 thickly covered with short coarse hair, dark brown to black, 

 except the white hair forming the stripes on the undei'side. The 

 inferior pair of spinnerets are cylindrical truncate at top, 

 contiguous at base. The superior pair have a short second joint 

 distinctly conical. They are rather longer, but smaller in 

 diameter than the inferior. 



The Palpi are as long as the cephalothorax, thickly covered 

 with hair. The femoral joint is short and incurved. 



The Legs are stout and hairy ; a scopula on all tarsi and 

 metatarsi ; stout spines on femora, tibiae and metatarsi. 



Mitupga maculata, nov. sp. (PI. XVI., Fig. 3). 



Cephalothorax reddish brown, darker in front than in the 

 middle ; median furrow dark, with five dark stripes leading 

 therefrom towards the margin on each side. The hairs are pale 

 yellowish brown, darker brown on the dark patches ; a thickly 

 haired pale stripe round the margin of the thoracic part. It 

 reaches farther up the sides on the cephalic part, also between 

 the middle and side eyes. The mandibles are black-brown, with 

 long, pale, bristly hair, on the upper part, thinner and dai*ker on 

 the lower. Fangs deep red, with pale red fringe on outer falx 

 edge. Lip and maxillae dark reddish brown, with black bristles 

 on the outer edges of the latter and pale reddish brown fringes 

 on inner. Sternum pale brown, with down-lying yellow and up- 

 standing dark brown hairs. Legs and palpi bright golden brown, 

 with greyish yellow hair, tending to brown on the coxae. 

 Abdomen above pale yellow-brown, mottled irregularly with 



