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the length of the second. The rest of the spines are on the 

 whole longer than in tessellata, and the first and third on the 

 lower surface of the tarsus are long and acute, these same 

 spines, especially the third, being short in both Pallasii and 

 tessellata. 



Legs almost as in the male of T. tessellata, but with the 

 femur of the fourth almost as long as that of the second (cf. 

 measurements), and the second tibial of the fourth leg almost 

 more than three quarters the length of the third tibial and 

 about three quarters of the distance between the eyes. 



It is also related to longipes, as shown by the presence of 

 three well-developed spines on the lower edge of the tarsus 

 of the chela. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 22 ; median 

 length of carapace 8'5, width 12*8, distance between eyes 3*6. 

 Chela : femur, length 6*5, height 2*5, length of longest spine 

 2*6 ; tibia, length 9*5, width 3, length of longest spine 4 ; 

 length of tarsus 5, of digit 4*5. Legs : femur of first 24*5, 

 of second 16, of third 16*5, of fourth 15 ; tibia of second 16, 

 of third 18, of fourth 17. 



Loc. ? 



A single male example. 



Tarantula pulchripes, sp. n. (PI. VII. figs. 6, 6 a.) 



Colour blackish, with distinct flavous marginal spots on the 

 carapace ; a flavous ring round the muscular impressions of 

 the terga, one flavous spot on the upperside of the trochanter, 

 and three on the femora of the posterior three pairs of legs. 



Granulation of the trunk rather fine. 



Carapace with its front border lightly emarginate and 

 conspicuously and evenly dentate, completely overlapping the 

 median process, which is thus concealed from above ; distance 

 between the lateral eyes about half the median length of the 

 carapace, twice as great as the distance between a lateral eye 

 and the anterior border, and more than twice the distance 

 between the lateral eye and the lateral border ; the frontal 

 region gently sloped downwards and forwards, steeper below 

 the lateral eye ; the median tubercle wider than long, sepa- 

 rated from the front border by a space which is a little less 

 than its longitudinal diameter. 



Mandibles very slightly granular above, with the external 

 distal tubercle slightly enlarged. 



Chelce robust ; femur, which is longer by about one third 

 of its length than is the distance between the eyes, coarsely 

 granular above; spine-armature of the appendage as fol- 

 lows : — femur above 5 and some spinules, below 5 (the 



