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dull yellow, comprises four indented brown spots nearly forming 

 a square, the two posterior ones being separated by a rather 

 wider interval than the anterior ones; and the colour of the 

 posterior part of the band is brownish-black, intersected by 

 narrow, transverse, dull yellow bars ; the sides have a brownish- 

 yellow hue, and are marked with oblique brownish-black streaks; 

 the middle of the under part is of a dark brown hue, bordered 

 laterally with dull yellow ; the sexual organs are well developed, 

 prominent, of a dark reddish-brown colour, and have a long, 

 slender, brownish-yellow process, directed backwards from their 

 anterior margin, which is curved at its base and recurved at its 

 extremity. 



Epe'ira multiguttata. 



Length of the female |^rd of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax -^ ; breadth \ ; breadth of the abdomen ^ ; length of an 

 anterior leg ^^ ; length of a leg of the third pair y^^j. 



The cephalothorax is compressed before, rounded in front and 

 on the sides, thinly clothed with hairs, convex, with a large in- 

 dentation in the medial line; the falces are powerful, conical, 

 convex in front near the base, vertical, and armed with teeth on 

 the inner surface ; the maxillae are short, straight, and enlarged 

 and rounded at the extremity ; the lip is semicircular, but some- 

 what pointed at the apex; the sternum is heart-shaped, with 

 small eminences on the sides, opposite to the legs ; the legs are 

 robust, and provided with hairs and a few spines ; the first pair 

 is the longest, then the second, and the third pair is the shortest ; 

 the tarsi are terminated by claws of the usual number and struc- 

 ture ; the palpi are rather short, and have a curved pectinated 

 claw at their extremity. These parts are of a red colour, the 

 sternum being the palest ; the maxillse and lip are tinged with 

 brown at the base and dull yellow at the extremity; on the 

 anterior part of the cephalothorax there is a large triangular 

 black mark, whose base comprises the eyes, and whose vertex 

 extends to the medial indentation ; a black annulus occurs near 

 the middle, and another at the extremity of the tibia of the first 

 and second pairs of legs, the latter being the broader ; and the 

 extremity of the tibia, metatarsus, and tarsus of the third and 

 fourth pairs, and that also of the digital joint of the palpi, are of 

 the same hue. The eyes are disposed on the anterior part of the 

 cephalothorax, in two transverse rows ; the four intermediate 

 ones nearly form a square, the two anterior ones, which are the 

 largest of the eight, and rather wider apart than the posterior 

 ones, being placed on a prominence; the eyes of each lateral 

 pair are seated obliquely on a tubercle, and are near to each 

 other, but not in contact. The abdomen has a short, broad, 

 oviform figure; it is spaiingly clothed with hairs, veiy convex 



