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terminated by a slightly curved, pectinated claw. These limbs 

 are of a yellow colour, the joints of the legs having a tinge of 

 red-brown at their extremity. 



The collection contained two immature females of this species. 



Family Drassid^e. 

 Genus Drassus, Walck. 

 Drassus delicatuSj n. sp. 



Length of the male (not including the spinners) -^ of an 

 inch ; length of the cephalothorax -y-o, breadth -j-V ; breadth of 

 the abdomen -jV^ length of a posterior leg -f-j length of a leg 

 of the third pair i. 



The eyes are seated on black spots, and are disposed on the 

 anterior part of the cephalothorax in two slightly curved trans- 

 verse rows; the anterior row, which is the shorter and less 

 curved, is situated immediately above the frontal margin, the 

 two intermediate eyes being the largest and darkest-coloured of 

 the eight ; and the two intermediate ones of the posterior row 

 are oval, almost contiguous, divergent, and diaphanous. The 

 cephalothorax is nearly oval, rounded in front and on the 

 sides, convex, glossy, with a slight, narrow, dark- brown in- 

 dentation in the medial line of the posterior region ; it is of a 

 very pale yellow colour, with a faint tinge of red in the region 

 of the eyes. The falces are long, conical, prominent, and armed 

 with a few small teeth on the inner surface ; the maxillae are 

 convex near the base, depressed obliquely near their rounded 

 extremity, and are somewhat inclined towards the lip, which is 

 longer than broad, and rounded at the apex. These organs are 

 of a red-brown colour, the maxillse being the palest. The 

 sternum is oval, glossy, with minute eminences on the sides, 

 opposite to the legs ; it is of a yellowish-white colour, with a few 

 short, longitudinal, red-brown streaks on the lateral margins. 

 The legs are long, glossy, provided with black sessile spines, 

 and have brown hair-like papillse on the inferior surface of the 

 tarsi; they are of a yellowish-white colour, the metatarsi and 

 tarsi of the first and second pairs being tinged with pale reddish- 

 brown ; the fourth pair is the longest, then the first, and the 

 third pair is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by two 

 curved, pectinated claws. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, 

 with the exception of the digital joint, which has a red-brown 

 hue; the radial is longer than the cubital joint, and has no 

 apophysis at its extremity; the digital joint is of an oblong- 

 oval form, convex and hairy externally, compact and somewhat 

 pointed at its extremity, and has a shallow concavity at its base, 

 on the underside, comprising the palpal organs, which arc small, 



