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UEVERT EXPHIMTION KAIXBOW. 



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Le'i.<. — l-"Jiig, coiicoloruus with ce{)halotlioiax, 

 densely clotlied with long golden-fellow hairs but 

 displaving naked areas; each tibia and metatarsus 

 bespined : metatarsi and tarsi i. and ii. seop)alHted : 

 tarsi iii. and iv. also .scof)ulated : tibia i. furnished 

 with an apophysis: relative lengths: 1-4, 2, 3. 

 I'alpi. — Modeiately long, concoioions with legs, and 

 similar to them in clothing ; tibia inflated, and 

 furnished with an apophysis ; tarsal joint small, 

 and armed with strong spines; bulb shining, 

 bilobed. pyriforni, slightly twisted, style grooved, 

 short (Fig. 2). Falces. — Moderately strong, concol- 

 orous with cephalothorax, clotlied with long, coarse 

 golden-yellow linits but displaying naked areas : 

 inner angle of the furrow of each falx armed with a 

 row of six strong teeth, and the outer with several 

 small ones : beard red, fang long, well curved, 

 shining, reddish-brown. J/</,/v7/"'. — Arched, reddish-brown, 

 furnished with a few small scattered spines: heel well rounded, inner 

 angle of the apex of each falx terminating in an obtuse point ; beard red. 

 Lahimu. — Concolorous, free, submerged, broader than long, arched, hairy, 

 a few spines near apex. Sferiiiiin. — Concoloious also, hairy, somewhat 

 pyriform, arched, longer than broad, and terminating obtusely between 

 fourth coxa?: siijiUa small, marginal. Abdomen. — Obovate, slightly over- 

 hanging base of cephalothorax, arched, chocolate-brown, densely clothed 

 with long yellowish hairs. Spiiiiieret-<. — Brown, hairy : superior pair 

 stout, first joint longest, and the third shortest and dome-shaped : inferior 

 spinners short, cylindrical, close together, and touching each other. 



Fig. 2. 



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$ Cephalothorax. 116 mm. long, 8"6 mm. broad ; abdomen, 122 

 mm. long, 112 mm. broad. 



L'epltidiithnrn.f. — Ubovate, chocolate-brown, uneven, clothed with long 

 golden-yellow hairs. I'ar^ cei>li<ilic'i ascending, arched, somewhat com- 

 pressed, sides declivous, thoracic groove distinct; ocular art'i black, 

 broader than long, raised, arched, fringed in front with a few stiff bristles: 

 rh/peng transversely wrinkled, deep, sloping forw^ard, hyaline, tinged with 

 reddish-brown, indented at middle. Fai;- fhoraclni broad, retreating, 

 gently arched, radial grooves and depressions profound ; thoracic fucea 



deep, slightly recurved; )iiar'jiiial hand broad, yellowish, liairv. Eite^^. 



Distributed over two rows of four each; front row stronglv procurved, 

 rear row procurved in front and recurved behind : front lateral eves 



largest of the group, somewhat elliptical, 

 poised obliquely, mounted on black rings, 

 and separated from each other by a space 

 equal to that of three times their own indi- 

 vidual diameter: anterior medians round, and 

 separated from each other by a space equal 

 to fully once their own individual diameter, 

 and each again from its anterior lateral 

 neighbour by less than that space : posterior 



