FaMILy DRASSIDAE, SUB-FAM DRASSODINAE, GROUP DRASSODEAE, 
GENUS DRASSODES, WESTRING. 
D. ?Lapsus. O.P.CAMBR. 
Female.—The Cephalothorax is bright orange yellow thickly covered with 
downlying grey plumose hair interspersed with a few upstanding hairs or 
bristles. The Mandibles, somewhat darker orange, are thickly covered with 
short upstanding grey bristly hair. Fangs reddish yellow. 
The Lip, Maxillae, Sternum, and Coxae all orange yellow with rather long 
grey bristly hair, thickest on the latter. The Legs and Palpi similar, but 
rather paler. The Abdomen above is yellow at the base, the remainder pale 
yellow grey with brownish grey thin short hairs. Underneath it is a pale 
yellow, almost white at the edges, with short downlying grey hair in transverse 
ridges. The Spinnerets darker yellow, one jointed, cylindrical. 
The Cephalothorax is convex, rounded at the sides and straight in front, 
where it is rather more than half its greatest breadth, which is two-thirds its 
length. 
The front row of Eyes is straight, the median pair half their diameter 
apart, and the same distance from the margin of the Clypeus. The laterals, 
touching them, are nearly the same diameter, but placed sideways look oval. 
The rear row of eyes are sessile, the median, oblong, are half their shorter 
diameter apart at the upper corners, and their long diameter away from the 
laterals, the whole row being procurved and slightly longer than the front. 
The front and rear median are rather more than the diameter of the former 
apart, the long diameter of the rear ones being slightly shorter. 
The Mandibles are kneed at the base and straight at the sides, as broad 
in the front as at the base. The fangs are broad at the base, thence tapering to 
a fine point. There are two quite small blunt teeth on the inner margin of 
the falx sheath. 
The Lip is longer than broad, tapering from the base to a narrow rounded 
upper margin. It is two-thirds the length of the Maxillae. The latter are 
rounded both at the base and in front, impressed in the middle and slope over 
the lip. 
The Sternum is oval and flat, with thick upstanding bristles all round the 
margin and downlying flat hairs in the middle. The rear Coxae are close 
together. 
The Legs are short, fairly thick in the femoral joints, tapering to the 
tarsi, which are quite fine. The front two pairs are without spines, and have 
scopulae, thin in the middle, on the tarsal and metatarsal joints. The Tibia 
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