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are of a yellow-brown colour, the former, which are the paler, 
having an irregular, transverse, yellowish-white spot near their 
base. The lip is triangular, but rounded at the apex, and, with 
the heart-shaped sternum, is of a dark brown colour. The legs 
are provided with hairs and spines, two parallel rows of the latter 
extending along the inferior surface of the tibiz and metatars1 
of the first and second pairs, which are much longer and more 
robust than the third and fourth pairs; the first pair is rather 
longer than the second, and the third pair is the shortest ; each 
tarsus is terminated by two curved pectinated claws ; the coxz 
have a dark brown hue; the femora, genua, and base of the 
tibize of the first and second pairs are of a pale yellowish-white 
colour, the femora of the former being marked on the upper 
surface, and those of the latter on the upper and under surfaces, 
with dark brown ; the femora, genua, and base of the tibice of 
the third and fourth pairs have a yellow-brown hue, with a few 
dark brown marks on their upper and under surfaces ; the an- 
terior part of the tibize and the metatarsi of all the legs are of a 
brownish-black colour, and the dark brown tarsi have a yellowish- 
white hue at their base. The palpi are short, and have a small, 
curved, pectinated claw at their extremity; the humeral and 
cubital joints are of a yellow-brown colour, their under part and 
extremity having a yellowish-white hue; and the radial and 
digital joints are of a brown colour, the former being much the 
palest at its base underneath. 
Genus PasttHea, Blackw. 
Pasithea elegans. 
Length of the female } an inch; length of the cephalothorax 
1, breadth 3, ; breadth of the abdomen ;1,; length of an anterior 
leg ®,; length of a leg of the third pair {5. 
The eyes are unequal in size, encircled with pale yellow hairs, 
and are disposed in three transverse rows on a slight black pro- 
minence situated at the anterior part of the cephalothorax, high 
above the frontal margin; two, constituting the anterior row, 
are much the smallest of the eight, and near to each other, but 
not in contact; the two largest form the intermediate row; and 
the other four constitute the posterior row, which is curved 
and has its convexity directed backwards ; the entire group de- 
scribes a sector of a circle whose radii converge towards the 
frontal margin. The cephalothorax is convex, broadly truncated 
in front, compressed before, and somewhat rounded on the sides, 
which are marked with slight furrows converging towards a 
narrow longitudinal indentation in the medial line; it is of a 
red-brown colour, and is clothed with brown-red and yellowish 
