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ones ; the eyes of each lateral pair are placed apart on a tubercle, 
and are distant from the intermediate ones. The falces are 
short, very powerful, subconical, remarkably convex in front, 
protuberant near the base, towards the inner side, vertical, glossy, 
and armed with teeth on the inner surface; the maxille are 
short, straight, and greatly enlarged and rounded at the extre- 
mity; and the lip is semicircular, but pointed at the apex. 
These parts are of a brownish-black colour; the falces are the 
darkest, and the extremities of the maxille and lip have a yellow- 
brown hue. The sternum is heart-shaped, with prominences on 
the sides, opposite to the legs, and terminates in a point; it is 
granulated, supplied with long black hairs, and of a brownish- 
black colour, a transverse bar at its anterior part, two spots on 
each side, and one on the posterior point having a yellow hue. 
The legs are short, slender, provided with hairs, and of a red- 
dish-yellow colour, with brown spots and streaks on the under 
surface of the femora, the upper surface of the genua and base 
of the tibize, and an annulus of the same hue at the base of the 
metatarsi and tarsi; the fourth pair is the longest, then the first, 
and the third pair is the shortest ; each tarsus is terminated by 
claws of the usual number and structure. The palpi are short, 
of a brown-red hue, and have a curved pectinated claw at their 
extremity. 
Genus Nepuita, Leach. 
Nephila ornata. 
Length of the female {ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 
thorax 7; breadth $; breadth of the abdomen 3; length of an 
anterior leg 2; length of a leg of the third pair 4. 
The eyes are seated on black spots on the anterior part of the 
cephalothorax ; the four intermediate ones nearly form a square, 
the two anterior ones, which are on a protuberance, being 
smaller and rather nearer to each other than the posterior ones ; 
the eyes of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a prominent 
tubercle, and are near to each other, the anterior ones being 
much the smallest of the eight. The cephalothorax is com- 
pressed before, rounded on the sides, slightly convex, with an 
indentation in the medial line; it is of a brown colour, and is 
densely covered with short haus having a silvery lustre. The 
falces are powerful, conical, vertical, armed with teeth on the 
inner surface, and have a dark brown hue. The maxille are 
straight, and are enlarged and rounded at the extremity, which 
has a brownish-yellow hue, that of the base beg dark. brown, 
The lip is semicircular, but pointed at the apex, and is of a pale 
yellow colour. The sternum is heart-shaped, with very conspi- 
cuous prominences on the sides, opposite to the legs, and termi- 
