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pair; while the femora, genua, and tibias of the third and 

 fourth pairs are of a deep blackish red-brown. All the femora 

 reflect metallic tints of a violet colour in different lights. The 

 legs are all furnished sparingly with hairs and spines, and 

 each tarsus ends with three curved claws of a similar nature 

 to those of the species already described. 



Palpi very similar in general appearance to those of the 

 species next to be described (S. australiensis) } short, red-yellow 

 in colour ; digital joints red-brown, reflecting violet tints like 

 the femora of the legs ; radial joints shorter and smaller than the 

 cubital, and prominently produced in an obtuse form on their 

 outer sides, the produced portions having their bases furnished 

 with a tuft of bristly black hairs ; one or two longer and 

 strongish prominent black bristles also issue from the inner 

 side of each radial joint ; a similar bristle issues from the upper 

 sides of the cubitals, and several from those of the humeral 

 joints : digital joints very large, as long as the whole of the 

 rest of the palpi ; they are of a circular form flattened on the 

 outer sides, with their extremities produced into a point much 

 bent downwards ; they are furnished with hairs, and have two 

 or three short, strong, claw-like spines at the extreme points ; 

 these spines are rather abruptly bent at their extremities. 



The palpal organs are well developed, and consist of several 

 yellowish and red-brown corneous processes, one of which, 

 near their base, is prolonged into a rather prominent filiform 

 spine, which, curving round inwards beneath the base of the 

 digital joint, has its acute point in contact with the inner 

 margin of the same, at about one-third of the distance from its 

 extremity. 



Falces strong, about equal in length to the height of clypeus, 

 inclined backwards to sternum, and similar in colour to 

 cephalothorax. 



Maxillce strongly inclined to labium, and rounded on their 

 outer sides ; a tuft or short fringe of short, black, bristly hairs 

 at their extremities. 



Labium broadest at its base and roundish-pointed at apex, 

 which nearly reaches the extremities of the maxillas ; these 

 parts are similar to the falces in colour. 



Sternum heart-shaped, of a deep reddish black-brown, re- 

 flecting tints similar to those on the cephalothorax, &c. 



Abdomen short, oval, very convex above, almost black, clothed 

 sparingly with fine pale hairs ; five markings of a cream-yel- 

 low are conspicuous on the upperside, two of these are on either 

 side towards the fore part, the hinder one of each two being 

 oblique and much the largest, the fore ones being mere dots 

 and nearer together than the hinder ones ; the fifth is a short 



