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rather more distaut from each other than the fore-lateral eye 

 is from the hind-central nearest to it. 



Fakes glossy, dark amber-colour, base clouded with olive- 

 green ; sub-conical, slightly retreating, second half somewhat 

 divergent, neai-ly as stout as femoral joint of first leg, length 

 slightly surpasses digital joint of palpus. 



Maxilla brownish - yellow, hghtly clouded with olive- 

 green ; rather longer than wide, enlarged forwards, obtusely 

 pointed, separated by an interval nearly equalling their own 

 breadth. 



Labium chocolate-brown ; rather wider than long, margin 

 tumid, everted. 



Sternum yellow-brown, shading off to a deep-brown on 

 margins ; hairs sparse ; cordate, length scarcely exceeds 

 breadth between coxae of fore- and hind-pairs of legs. 



Legs colour of cephalothorax, femora faintly clouded and 

 annulated with olive-green ; two rings on tibise -f metatarsi 

 of a brownish hue ; hairs sparse, outstanding ; spines bristle- 

 like ; 3 or 4 on femora ; patellary joints, 1 ; tibiae of anterior 

 pairs, 4: ; metatai'si, 1 ; tibiae of hind-pairs, 2 spines ; meta- 

 tarsi, 1. 



Palpi yellowish, clouded with olive-green ; slender, lather 

 shorter than cephalothorax ; armature bristle-like liairs, few 

 slender spines ; palpal claw long, slender, slightly curved, 

 free end more than half length of claw, 6 comb- teeth increas- 

 ing in length. 



Abdomen broad-oviform, projects over base of cephalo- 

 thorax, viewed laterally somewhat reniform ; ground-colour 

 yellowish-drab, faintly suffused with purple-brown approxi- 

 mating to violet, flecked with more or less oval creamy- 

 coloured spots, bordered with violet-brown ; folium sublyrate, 

 margins interrupted, brown, yellow outer border, fore-half 

 nearly twice as broad as posterior ; ventral field and inferior 

 half of lateral margins greenish-black, figured with oblique 

 marks and free and coalescing spots ; shield lozenge-shape, 

 broad, sides sinuating; yellowish, passing into pale-purple on 

 margins, centre clouded with dark-olive. 



Vulva yellow -brov>n, somewhat _|_-shaped, moderately ele- 

 vated, transversely rugulose ; displays two small, reddish, 

 elhptical foveae, their greater diameter intersected by a septum 

 whose breadth nearly equals their transverse diameter, septum 

 bordered by dark costae, which rapidly diverge round foveas, 

 extend outwardly above the rima genitalis, following some- 

 what the lower margin of two large, convex, oval, transverse 

 depressions, contiguous to foveae. 



This species was not uncommon in the forest near Strat- 

 ford, male examples by far the most numerous. A. T. U. 



