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Lej/.s". — Sliiiiiiiij, stroiify, black, peail-^i-ey at joiiifs ; femur 

 of leof i. sliylitly bowed and furnished wifli a few slioii, scat- 

 tered liairs ; patella i. lias tlie inner an<ifle tliickly beset with 

 with short, stron<y spines; tibiae i. and ii. have eacdi a jiuniber 

 of long coai'se haii's or bristles, and on the underside a. number 

 of long, spinelike l)i-istles; femoi-a i.,ii. and iii. are each sparingly 

 clothed with short hairs and long fine bi-istles ; femur of leg 

 iii. is the stoutest; patella ii. is armed on its apical angle with 

 a cluster of short, stout spines; patella iii. is thickly beset with 

 shoi't, stout spines both on its upper surface and lateral angles ; 

 while patella iv. has a numbej" of very short spines scattered 

 over its upper sui'face and latei-al angles ; tibiae iii. and iv. ai-e 

 eacli clothed with shoi't hairs and bespined ; metatarsi and 

 tai'si strongly bespined, thickly clothed and scopulated. Meas- 

 urements in millimeters: — 



Fidpi. — Long, smooth, shining, not 

 strong, concolorous with legs ; femur and 

 patella very sparingly clothed ; tibia 

 thickly fringed with long hairs on under- 

 side ; radial joint small, overhanging, 

 hairy, cleft at apex ; genital bulb shining, 

 reddish ; stigma long, tapering, curved, 

 apex rounded off, blunt. Measurements 

 in millimetei's : — Trochanter and femur, 

 10.2; patella and tibia, 9.8; radial joint, 

 1 ; total, 21 (tig. 74.) 



Fidces. — Concolorous with cephalothorax, 

 pori-ected upper surface wrinkled, sides 

 snH)oth ; the rasfell uiii is a pad on the 

 inner side of the falx ; fang long, black, 

 reddish at tip, and well carved ; inner angle of the furrow of 

 each falx fringed with long reddish hairs, and armed with a 



Fig. 74.— -1/ bradleyi, 

 K;iinb., Palpus. 



