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distant between the fore lateral and the hind lateral eye, and 

 is in a straight line between them ; the ocular area is 

 distinctly wider than long. The eyes of the anterior row have 

 some yellow scaliform hairs encircling them and black bristly 

 hairs about them. The lower margin of the clypeus is 

 furnished with a dense fringe of strong, bright yellowish hairs, 

 and the four central eyes are double the size of the fore-laterals. 



Legs 4, 3, 1, 2, short, strong ; those of the first and second 

 pairs are black, excepting the tarsi, which are pale yellowish 

 white ; those of the third and fourth pairs are of a lighter 

 black brown, with a somewhat linear-striate appearance on 

 the femora and tibiae, the tarsi being similar in colour to 

 those of the first and second pairs. The undersides of the 

 tibiae and metatarsi of the first and second pairs are densely 

 furnished with strong bristly black hairs and some strong 

 spines, whose number and nature I could not satisfacturily 

 ascertain. There were also a few spines on the tibiae, tarsi, 

 and metatarsi of the third and fourth pairs. 



Palpi short ; radial and cubital joints yellow-white clothed 

 with white hairs ; a slight fringe of the same is directed 

 inwards at the fore extremity of the radial joints on the inner 

 side ; the digital joints are of moderate size, M'hite with a 

 slight yellowish tinge, and clothed with white hairs ; palpal 

 organs much like those of E. frontalis, Walck. 



Maxillae, and labium black-brown, tipped with pearly white. 



Sternum black-brown. 



Abdomen short-oval, black-brown, composed of numerous 

 black-brown striae on a yellow-brown ground, but I could 

 trace no distinct pattern ; the whole is densely clothed above 

 with strong hairs, white in front and on the sides, and mixed 

 with dark hairs ; those on the central portion, especially, re- 

 flecting a strong golden hue along the upper side. The inferior 

 spinners are black above, the rest deep brown ; under side 

 black-brown, obscurely marked with yellow-brown laterally 

 and along the middle. An immature female, taken at the 

 same time and place resembled the male excepting in the legs. 

 These were of a uniform pale yellowish white, distinctly and 



