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Labium darker than maxillae ; semicircular. 



Sternum yellow-brown, mottled with oHve-green : clath- 

 rate ; broad-cordate. 



Abdomen oviform, depressed above, cone-shaped elevation 

 on base; hairs moderately sparse, orange-red, spring from 

 orange-red papillae : integument greenish stone-colour ; sum- 

 mit of cone whitish, fore and lateral mai-gins clouded with 

 olive-black ; a large, somewhat N -shaped mark of same hue 

 on posterior inchnation above spinners, which have an orange 

 colour ; ventral surface normal colour ; vulva yellowish, 

 marbled with brown and ohve-green ; represents a large, some- 

 what quadrate projection ; tapering forwards from basal angles 

 is a moderately convex-elevation — projecting rather beyond 

 line of fore-angies, which are somewhat membranous — whose 

 dark, obhquely-abscinded apex displays a heart-shaped fovea, 

 apex of which is directed upwards. 



Captured in the forest, Stratford, A. T. U. 



Ektcdca, gen. nov. 



Cephalothorax oval, lateral constriction at caput moderate, 

 roundly truncated ; profile-contour slopes forwards from limit 

 of cephalic region, inchnation more abrupt across ocular 

 ai"ea, posterior inchne moderately steep ; clypcus shghtly re- 

 treating, depth about equal to space between fore-centre 

 eyes. 



Eyes form two moderately -recui-ved rows, anterior strong- 

 est ; posterior median pair and laterals of about equal size, 

 posited on well-developed cup-shaped tubercular eminences ; 

 liind-centrals very perceptibly more distant from each other 

 than they are fi-om side-eyes : anterior centrals less than one- 

 half size of laterals, seated obhquely on a low prominence, 

 rather further from one another than they are from eyes next 

 to them; laterals placed obliquely, interval between them 

 perceptibly sm-passes space dividing a fore-lateral from the 

 hind-central nearest to it, an interval exceeding the distance 

 between posterior median eyes. 



Fakes strong, second half divergent and somewhat at- 

 tenuated, vertical, or shghtly retreating. 



Maxillu' rather longer tlian broad, taper to base, obtusely 

 ix)int«d. 



Labium rather wider than long, margin very tumid, 

 everted. 



Sternum cordate : length scarcely exceeds the greater 

 breadth. 



Legs long, slender. 1, 2, i, 3 ; hahs spai'se ; few fine 

 bristle-like spines on the femoral, patellary. and tibial joints. 



Palpi slender, digital joint longest. 



Abdomen broad-oviform. 



