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Clypeus very narrow, equal to the diameter of central 

 anterior eyes, its margin set witli six or seven curving bristles. 



Falces broad, stout, convex, conical, clothed witii curving 

 black hairs. Inner margin set with numerous curving iiairs ; 

 upper margin of fang-groove bearing three teeth, lower 

 margin with two. 



Palpus set with stout black spines, bearing at apex a dark 

 simple tarsal claw. 



MoxiUtp, twice as long as labium, broad, parallel-sided, 

 very slightly enlarged and obtusely truncate at apex ; fringed 

 with curviiiG: bristles and bearing a denser tuft of finer hairs 

 on inner antei ior margin and a small black tuft at apex. 



Lahium oval-quadrate, truncate at apex ; fringed with 

 dark bristles. 



Sternum slightly longer than broad, convex, clothed with 

 dark hairs, truncate in front, produced behind to a point 

 between the coxas of posterior pair of legs. 



Legs 4, 1,2, 3, fairly long, clothed with dark hairs. An- 

 terior pairs less spinose. 



Femora i. with 2 dorsal, 1 anterior-apical, and 1 dorsal- 

 apical spine. 



Femora ii. with 3 dorsal spines. 



Femora iii. with 3 dorsal and 3 apical spines. 



Femora iv. with 2 dorsal and 3 apical spines. 



Patella of all four pairs with a single basal and apical 

 spine. 



Tibia; i. with two pairs of stout spines beneath. Tibia3 ii. 

 with two spines 1 — 1 beneath. 



Protarsi* i. and ii. with two pairs of spines beneath. 

 Tibiai and protarsi iii. and iv. with numerous spines on all 

 sides. 



Tarsal claws two. Onychium bearing a few upturned 

 bristles, but no claw-tuft. 



Abdomen oval-elongate, compressed, parallel-sided, thinly 

 clothed with fine dark hairs ; dull brown, with a narrow, pale 

 yellow, central dorsal band extending from the base nearly to 

 the spinners, flanked by a pale irregular band, extending 

 from base and converging to the sj)inners. Ventral area p:»le 

 yellow. iSpinners short, cylindrical, situated in a quadrangle. 

 Superiors slightly longer and further apart; inferiors set one 

 diameter apart at base, having in front of them a lunulate 



* Mr. R. I. Pocock, of the Natural History Museum, South Kensing- 

 ton, has sujrgested prutarsii^ instead of tnetattirsim ; and, seeiug that we 

 enumerate the joints from the ba^-^al end and arrive at the si.vth joint 

 before the seventh (tarsus), tlie term prutarsuis .-^eenLS to describe the 

 joint and its position better than tlje old term metatarsus. 



