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patch of white hairs on and behind the occiput ; behind each 

 of the eyes of the hinder row is also a small spot of similar 

 hairs. 



The eyes are mother-of-pearl-like, those of the first row being 

 of a soft green colour, changing to amethyst and bluish grey ; 

 they form a quadrangular figure, whose transverse is consider- 

 ably longer than its longitudinal diameter ; the minute eye 

 between the laterals of the first and third rows on each side is 

 intermediate between and in the same straight line with them ; 

 the fore lateral eyes are rather less than half the diameter of 

 the fore centrals, being but very slightly (if at all) larger than 

 those of the third or hinder row : the height of the clypeus, 

 which retreats, is less than half the diameter of the fore central 

 eye. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength ; their relative 

 length is apparently 3, 4, 1, 2 (1 and 2 being almost equal) ; 

 they are of a brownish-yellow colour, paler in parts, and irre- 

 gularly, but pretty distinctly and boldly, marked and blotched 

 with blackish brown : the tibiae and metatarsi of the hinder 

 pair are strongly fringed on each side with black bristly hairs ; 

 other ordinary hairs clothe the rest ; all are furnished with 

 a few spines, and have a strong claw- tuft at the extremity 

 of each tarsus. 



The palpi are short and similar to the legs in colour ; they 

 are clothed with long hairs, nearly all of which are white. 

 The radial joint is considerably shorter and less strong than 

 the cubital, and has its outer extremity continued in the form 

 of a rather slender, tapering, sharp-pointed, thorn-like apo- 

 physis, equal in length to the joint itself, but not easy to 

 be seen among the long hairs by which it is concealed ; the 

 digital joint is oblong-oval, not very large, but somewhat 

 truncated at its fore extremity, and darker-coloured than 

 the rest of the palpus. The palpal organs consist apparently of 

 a large oval lobe, most prominent towards the hinder part. 



The falces are small, inclined backwards, placed a good way 

 back, beneath the ocular region, and of a dark yellow-brown 

 colour. 



The abdomen is of a broad-oval form and flattish, sloping 

 gradually (when seen in profile) from the fore part to the spin- 

 ners ; the upper surface is densely clothed with short adpressed 

 scale-like hairs, among which are a few erect ordinary ones ; 

 the lateral margins, quite round to the spinners, appear to pro- 

 ject slightly, and are furnished with a rather dense fringe of 

 long, buff and pale yellowish-white, silky hairs ; these fringes 

 are very characteristic ; and, from their appearance in the six 

 examples that have come under my notice, I suspect that the 



