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rounded, scarcely half length of juaxilla^ ; organs olive-blacky 

 yellowish tips. 



Stcrmim glossy black-brown ; cordate. 



Legs yellowish-brown ; three-fourths of femoral joints of 

 two first pairs, and basal half of hind-pairs, mahogany-colour; 

 patellae, central and apical rings on tibiai -f metatarsi, and 

 second half of tarsi, similar shade ; almost glabrous ; spines 

 brown, rather short, fairly numerous, irregular ; coxtc of first 

 pair armed with a curved process ; tibial joints of first legs 

 cylindrical, spines somewhat in rings ; tibiae of second stouter,, 

 enlarged on inner side at base and third quarter, spines 

 strong, especially distal groups. 



Palpi fulvous, olive-green tinge; hairs whitish; pars- 

 humeralis short, iucrassated forwards ; cubital joint one-third 

 shorter than former article, broad-oval, projects a bristle from 

 extremity ; radial about as long as cubital, broad, cup-shaped, 

 upper side emarginate ; pars digitalis large, subglobose; 

 lamina fulvous, clouded with olive-green ; hairs fine, short, 

 sparse ; elongate-ovate, depressed, apices curved backwards ; 

 base tumid, centrally intersected by a dark groove ; outwardly 

 prolonged into a triangular area terminating in a moderately 

 short, down-curved, lake-coloured apophysis ; genital bulb 

 viewed somewhat from front displays, including cap, five lobes ; 

 bulbus cap reddish-brown, golden reflections, partially encircled 

 and indented by a conspicuous black apophysis ; first lobe 

 beneath cap narrow, encloses face and inner side of bulbus, 

 yellow-orange metallic reflections, two transverse brown 

 streaks ; second lobe largest, side deeply emarginate, projecting 

 from centre of this cavity is a short, slightly-curved, black 

 process, directed backwards ; transversely rugose, bright 

 crimson -lake, passing into yellowish and black about the 

 vertically-rugulose border ; lower lobe light-brown, yellowish 

 metallic reflections, rugose, wide margins transversely wrinkled, 

 viewed beneath outer extremity reclinate ; projecting from 

 beneath former and 'contiguous to latter lobe is a broad 

 sharply-backward-curved process, curvature at extremity of 

 lobe, apex squarely truncated, light-brown, yellowish reflec- 

 tions, black-brown on outer side, lake band at curvature ; 

 beneath a yellow-brown, large, reniform lobe at base of bulb 

 is a wide, backward-curved, yellowish-brown process, base 

 tumid, apex rounded, revolute. 



Abdomen oviform, subdepressed, humeral tubercles slight ; 

 three first and fifth t;;bercles very short ; tubercle of second 

 row prominent ; stone-colour, lightly suffused with slate ; 

 folium stained with pale-brown, sparingly dappled with rather 

 large slate-coloured lobate spots ; margins acute-crenate^ 

 brownish, fore- and hind-extremities obliterated; four brown, 

 conspicuous, impressed spots form a trapezoid narrowest in 



