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Venatop mapginatus, nov. sp. (PI. XYII., Fig. 4). 



Cephalothorax black-brown, with a narrow white or yellow 

 edging along the margin the whole way round ; parallel to this a 

 narrow brown intermediate line, and then a broad band of yellow 

 or white hairs. The cephalic part above this is yellow-brown, 

 merging into the median stripe of the same colour which runs to 

 the rear slope ; between the median and side stripes on the 

 thoracic part there is a wide space of dark grey and black ; on the 

 face are Ijlack bristles. The mandibles are black-brown, thickly 

 covered for two-thirds down with coarse yellow hairs and bristles, 

 the lower third dark brown with black hairs. Fangs black-brown. 



The lip and maxillae are a dirty dark red-brown, with paler 

 edgings scantily covered with upstanding pale brown hair. The 

 sternum is pale yellow-brown, with still paler coarse upstanding 

 yellow hair. The legs and palpi are pale yellow-brown, darkening 

 to orange at the joints, with pale yellow-brown hair, and darker 

 upstanding bristles ; the spines, dark brown ; on the outer side 

 of each femur is a darker brown longitudinal stripe. The abdo- 

 men above is of a dark grey ground colour, with two curved longi- 

 tudinal pale yellow-brown stripes meeting in front and at rear 

 just above the spinnerets. 



The intermediate space is divided transversely into a series of 

 nine triangular markings, of which the rather paler apex of each 



