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uninjured examples three longitudinal broken lines, but often 

 appearing only as isolated spots, and sometimes absent, probably 

 through injury. The sides of the thorax are blackish-brown, and 

 the upper side of this part is reddish yellow-brown, with a central 

 longitudinal, more or less strongly marked, blackish line, often 

 dilated in the middle into a largish diffused spot. 



The eyes form a square, occupying as nearly as possible half the 

 flattened upper area of the cephalothorax to the beginning of its 

 hinder slope. The anterior row is curved. The two central eyes 

 are nearly contiguous to each other, and touching the fore margin 

 of the caput. They are more than double the size of the laterals, 

 and all four are encircled with a rim of shining white, short, scale- 

 like hairs. Each minute eye of the second or middle row equally 

 divides the interval between the fore central eye and the eye, on 

 that side, of the posterior row, and is in a straight line with 

 them. 



The legs are very unequal in length and strength 1, 4, 2, 3. 

 Those of the first pair are much the longest and of inordinate 

 strength, especially the femora and tibiae. These joints are deep 

 rich brown, the genua somewhat paler. The metatarsi and tarsi 

 are yellowish, the anterior half of the former dark brown. The 

 tibiae of the first pair are pretty thickly clothed with hairs, and 

 beneath them and the metatarsi are two (parallel) rows of strong 

 black spines, 4 pairs on the former and 3 on the latter ; beneath 

 the metatarsi of the second pair are three small spines in a longi- 

 tudinal row. The other legs are pale yellowish, thinly marked 

 with black spots and stripes, the latter only on the femora. All 

 the legs terminate with a small black claw tuft. 



The palpi are short, of a yellow-brown hue, the radial and 

 digital joints black-brown. The radial is rather shorter than the 

 cubital joint, and furnished with strong bristly hairs. Its outer 

 extremity is prolonged into a strong, curved, slightly tapering, but 

 not sharply pointed, black, curved apophysis, as long, or longer, 

 than the greatest width of the joint. The digital joint is large, 

 clothed with short hairs ; the palpal organs simple, consisting of 



