Ubquhabt. — Oil Xeic Sj^ecies of Arauea?. 1-11 



band tapering, stretches from frontal margin to fovea, niottled 

 with a deeper hue ; glabrous ; broad-ovate, depressedly con- 

 vex ; ocular eminence prominent ; dypeus nearly vertical, 

 height equals one-half facial space : thoracic fovea oval, deep ; 

 caput and radial striae tolerably strong ; profile-contour repre- 

 sents a shght posterior inchne. 



Eyes rather large, hind-centrals and laterals opalescent ; 

 posterior row shghtly procuned, median pair about one- 

 fourth larger than fore-centrals, removed from laterals by an 

 interval scarcely equaUing their diameter, and fi"om each other 

 by rather more than one-fomi:h that space ; anterior row re- 

 curved, centrals posited somewhat obUquely on strong pro- 

 minences, nearly twice- their breadth apart, separated by 

 rather more than that distance fi-om hind-pair, about their 

 radius from side-eyes ; laterals fuUy as large as anterior 

 centrals, seated obhquely on a strong eminence, con- 

 tiguous. 



Fakes Hght-red mahogany; of somewhat even width, 

 moderately gibbous at base in front, second half divergent, 

 perceptibly inclined outwards, moderately stout, length equals 

 twice depth of clypeus. 



McurillcB yellowish-mahogany, suffused with olive on first 

 half; spathulate, base dilated, long, moderately inclined 

 towards each other. 



Labium fulvous, neai-ly t-wic<; as wide as long, rounded, 

 perceptibly emarginate, scarcely reaches second half of 

 maxiUae. 



Steniinn brownish, fulvous, heart-shaped figure with seven 

 acute projections occupies centre ; brocid-cordate. 



Legs and cephalothorax concolorous, annuH hght choco- 

 late-brown ; central and distal rings on femoral joints tinged 

 with olive-green ; thi-ee annulatious on tibiae, basal more or 

 less obhterated ; centre and apical lings on metatarsi ; hairs 

 sparse ; very few bristle-hlce spines, longest and strongest on 

 pateUae, which project two. 



Palpi colour of legs ; humeral joint about one-thii'd longer 

 than two following articles : pars cubitalis dilated forwai'ds, 

 projects a long bristle ; pais radialis rather surpasses former 

 article in length, cup-shaped, deeply emai-ginate at insertion of 

 lamina, few long bristles ; lamina? bulbi orange-brown, hairs 

 fine, sparse ; directed towards each other ; basal two-thirds 

 subobovate, broad, fore-third moderately compressed, tumid, 

 upturned ; genital bulb colour of lamina, cap consists of two 

 membranous lobes, base of lowest produced into a short, dark, 

 triangular process; stispended from fi-ont of bulb is a wide, 

 sharply - constricted, dark - margined, membranous process, 

 directed downwards and outwards ; next to it is a larger 

 appendage of somewhat similar form, whose compressed ex- 



