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ones ; the eyes of each lateral pair are placed apart on a tubercle, 

 and are distant from the intermediate ones. The falces are 

 short, very powerful, subconical, remarkably convex in front, 

 protuberant near the base, towards the inner side, vertical, glossy, 

 and armed with teeth on the inner surface; the maxillse are 

 short, straight, and greatly enlarged and rounded at the extre- 

 mity; and the lip is semicircular, but pointed at the apex. 

 These parts are of a brownish-black colour ; the falces are the 

 darkest, and the extremities of the maxilbe and lip have a yellow- 

 brown hue. The sternum is heart-shaped, with prominences on 

 the sides, opposite to the legs, and terminates in a point ; it is 

 granulated, supplied with long black hairs, and of a brownish- 

 black colour, a transverse bar at ita anterior part, two spots on 

 each side, and one on the posterior point having a yellow hue. 

 The legs are short, slender, provided with hairs, and of a red- 

 dish-yellow colour, with brown spots and streaks on the under 

 surface of the femora, the upper surface of the genua and baae 

 of the tibiae, and an annulus of the same hue at the base of the 

 metatarsi and tarsi ; the fourth pair it the longest, then the first, 

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

 claws of the usual number and structure. The palpi are short, 

 of a brown-red hue, and have a cur\-ed peetiiuited daw at their 

 flottremitj. 



Genus Nephila, Leach. 



NephUa omata. 



Length of the female -nrths of an inch ; length of the cephalo* 

 thorax ^ ; breadth | ; br^ulth of the abdomen \ ; length of an 

 anterior leg | ; length of a leg of the third pair \. 



The eyes are seat^ on black spots on the anterior part of the 

 cephalothorax ; the four intermediate ones nearly form a square, 

 the two anterior ones, which are on a protuberance, being 

 smaller and rather nearer to each other than the posterior ones ; 

 the eyes of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a prominent 

 tubercle, and are near to each other, the anterior ones being 

 much the smallest of the eight. The cephalothorax is com- 

 pressed before, rounded on the sides, slightly convex, with an 

 indentation in the medial line ; it is of a brown colour, and is 

 densely covered with short hairs having a silver)' lustre. The 

 falces are powerful, conical, vertical, armed with teeth on the 

 inner surface, and have a dark brown hue. The maxillae are 

 ■traight, and are enlarged and rounded at the extremity, which 

 has a brownish-yellow hue, that of the base being dark brown. 

 The lip is semicircular, but pointed at the apex, and is of a pale 

 yellow colour. The sternum is heart-shap«i, with very conspi- 

 cooua prominences on the sides, opposite to the legs, and termi- 



