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fits into the hind ward curved darker base of the one in front of it. 

 The sides are yellow, mottled with dark grey, and the under side 

 a thick mat of down-lying coai'se pale yellow hair. Spinnerets 

 and epigyne, bright brown. 



The Cephalothorax is longer than patella cum tibia IV., 1\ mm. 

 longer than the width between second and third pairs of legs ; 

 rounded at the sides. The face is trapezoidal seen from the front, 

 widening out between the palpi, and rather high in the middle. 

 The middle ridge runs about level to rear slope, where it descends 

 at a steep angle. The hairing is close and smooth, with upstand- 

 ing bristles between the eyes and on the forehead. 



The front row of Eyes are barely as wide as the second, the two 

 middle of the front row being twice the diameter of the front side, 

 a semi diameter of the same apart. The Clypeus is scarcely the 

 width of the front middle eyes, and the latter are half their dia- 

 meter from those of the second row. 



The second row eyes are half their diameter apart, and twice 

 the diameter of the front middle eyes. The eyes of the rear row 

 are the diameter of the second I'ow eyes away from them. They 

 are one and a half diameters of front middle eyes, and two and a 

 half of their own diameters apart. 



The mandibles are longer than the front patellae, kneed at base, 

 and then slightly recedent, thickly covered to end of falx with 

 down-lying hair. The fangs are long and stout. There are three 

 large teeth on the inner edge of falx sheatli, tlie middle slightly 

 the largest. 



The Maxillae are transversely arched, narrowed at base, 

 rounded in front and at the outer side ; on the inner slope thickly 

 fringed, and the whole surface covered with thin upstanding hairs. 

 They are slightly sloping over the Lip, which is distinctly wider 

 than long, transversely arched, hollowed in front, and narrowed at 

 rear. It is about half the length of the maxillae. 



The Sternu/n is heart-shaped, pointed at rear, where the coxae 

 are close together. It rises somewhat abruptly at the margin, and 

 is thence slightly arched to the centre. The irregular upstanding 

 coarse hair is longer at the margin than near the centre. 



The Abdovien is ovate, rounded in front and rear, broadest 

 one-third from the rear, thickly covered with close lying hair 



