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are of a yellow-brown colour, the former, which are the paler, 

 having an irregular, transverse, yellowish-white spot near their 

 base. The lip is triangular, but rounded at the apex, and, with 

 the heart-shaped sternum, is of a dark brown colour. The leg* 

 are provided with hairs and spines, two parallel rows of the latter 

 extending along the inferior surface of the tibis? and metatarsi 

 of the first and second pairs, which are much longer and more 

 robust than the third and fourth pairs ; the first pair is rather 

 longer than the second, and the third pair is the shortest ; each 

 tarsus is terminated by two curved pectinated claws ; the coxb 

 have a dark brown hue; the femora, genua, and base of the 

 tibiae of the first and second pairs are of a pale yellowish-white 

 colour, the femora of the former being marked on the upper 

 surface, and those of the latter on the upper and under surface!, 

 with dark brown ; the femora, genua, and base of the tibise of 

 the third and fourth pairs have a yellow-brown hue, with a few 

 dark brown marks on their upper and under surfaces; the an- 

 terior part of the tibia: and the nictatarHi of all the legs are of a 

 brownish-black colour, and the dark brown tarsi have a yellowish- 

 white hue at their base. The palpi are short, and have a small, 

 curved, pectinated claw at their extremity ; the humeral and 

 cubital joints arc of a yellow-brown colour, their under part and 

 extremity having a yellowish-white hue ; and the radial and 

 digital joints are of a brown colour, the former being much the 

 puett at its base underneath. 



Genus Pasithka, Blackw. 

 Pasithea elegans. 



Length of the female ^ an inch ; length of the cephalothorax 

 I, breadth j'g ; breadth of the abdomen^; length of an anterior 

 leg A ; length of a leg of the third pair ^. 



Tne eyes are unequal in size, encircled with pale yellow hairs, 

 and are disposed in three transverse rows on a slight black pro- 

 minence situated at the anterior part of the cephalothorax, high 

 above the frontal margin ; two, constituting the anterior row, 

 are much the smallest of the eight, and near to each other, but 

 not in contact ; the two largest form the intermediate row ; and 

 the other four constitute the posterior row, which is curved 

 and has its convexity directed backwards ; the entire group de- 

 scribes a sector of a circle whose radii converge towards the 

 frontal margin. The cephalothorax is convex, broadly truncated 

 in front, compressed before, and somewhat rounded on the sides, 

 which are marked with slight furrows converging towards a 

 narrow longitudinal indentation in the medial line ; it is of a 

 red-brown colour, and is clothed with brown-red and yellowish 



