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quadrangular figure, whose fore side is shortest ; and at the 

 extreme outer point of each of the flat divisions of the lower 

 part of the caput arc two eyes contiguous to each other ; these 

 coiTCspond to the usual lateral pairs of eyes. 



Legs short and not very strong, their relative length being 

 apparently 1, 2, 4, 3 ; they are furnished only with hairs and 

 bristles. 



Pal2n short, slender ; but the digital joints (with palpal 

 organs) epeiriform and of great size. 



Falces long, strong. 



MaxUlce strong, moderately long, enlarged and rounded at 

 their extremities ; greatly inclined towards and meeting over 

 the lahium, which is short, broad, pointed at the apex, and with 

 the appearance of a short piece cut off across the base. 



Sternum somewhat subtriangular, the apex of the triangle 

 directed backwards ; the base, where the labium joins, hollow. 



Abdomen short, subtriangular, the three sides curvilinear, 

 broader than long ; the upperside covered with a corneous 

 shield, and greatly projecting over the base of the cephalo- 

 thorax ; the miderside rugulose ; the pedicle connecting the 

 cephalothorax and abdomen projects under and is, to all ap- 

 pearance, articulated or at least joined to the hinder part of 

 the sternum. 



Calydna prospiciens^ n. sp. Plate XVII. fig. 3. 



Adult male, length nearly 2 lines. 



The cephalothorax is of a uniform yellow-brown colour, 

 with a greenish metallic reflection in some lights, and its surface 

 is finely punctuose : the caput is large, nearly equal in width 

 to the thoracic region, but easily distinguished from it by the 

 ordinary lateral compressions and oblique furrows : the pecu- 

 liar form of the ocular region has been fully described above 

 among the generic characters. 



Tlie eyes^ placed as described above, are of moderate size ; 

 those forming the centi-al square are on black spots and are 

 of equal size; the two hinder ones are separated from each 

 other by rather more than an eye's diameter, the two foremost 

 by rather less ; those of each lateral pair (seated at the extreme 

 points of the projecting portions of the caput) are small, 

 obscure, and contiguous to each other. 



The legs are short, moderately strong; relative length 1, 2, 

 4, 3 ; they are furnished with hairs and bristles only, each 

 tarsus terminating with two curved superior, one smaller in- 

 ferior, and, below the latter, one or two supernumerary opposed 

 claws : the colour of the legs of the third and fourth pairs 



