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wak in Borneo. The vulva in the Baram specimen seems to agree in stucture with Thorell’s 
description of this organ. 
Genus Tapponia Simon. 
CR. Ent. Belg. 29, p. XXXVI, 1885. 
Tapponia heterosticta sp. n. 
Pl. XXV, fig. 13, 13a. 
Colour (in alkohol): Carapace yellowish red, obscurely mottled, with an irregular 
semicircular fuscous band passing round the posterior portion from a point on a level with 
the 1 * leg; ocular eluster black; mandibles brownish red, with a basal external fuscous 
band; sternum, coxae, maxillae and labium; palpi reddish, infuscate at apex of femur and at 
the base of tibia and tarsus; legs reddish yellow, the femora strongly infuscate below, the 
base of the tibia black; a black spot at the base of the spines giving a spotted look to the 
legs; abdomen purplish red above, broken up at the sides, and in front by yellowish or 
greyish white patches continuous with the greyish white of the sides of the abdomen, lower 
surface with a broad purplish red band, darker at the edges passing from the vulva to the 
spinners, sides of the lower surface yellow in parts. 
When dry the carapace, mandible and legs, though much rubbed, show patches here 
and there of yellow hairs; the lower surface of the abdomen has a coating of ruddy red 
hairs and its lateral portions of yellow. 
Carapace distinetly shorter than the patella and tibia of the 4 leg, clypeus a 
little more than half the height of the head; the height of the head a little less than the 
length of the mandibles; the distance between the anterior eyes equal to about twice their 
diameter, between the eyes ofthe 224 row a little exceeding their diameter; carapace a little 
less than one quarter the length of the 1 leg. 
Abdomen broad in front, somewhat abruptly narrowed in its posterior third, this 
portion subeylindrical with truncate extremity. 
Vulva consisting of an oblong plate, with convex posterior half, the depression 
semielliptical in form. 
Measurements in millimetres. Total length 15 mm, length of carapace 4.5, 
width 3.3; length of 1% les 19, of 2»4 17.5, of 3-4 16, of 4% 14.8, 
Loc. Batjan. A single adult female example. 
