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with long black hairs. The colour of the legs is red-brown ; 

 the femora of the second, third, and fourth pairs, together with 

 the tibiae of the first, are much the darkest, nearly black ; the 

 uppersides of femora, genua, and tibia? of the three hinder 

 pairs are furnished with longitudinal lines of coarse, yellow, 

 sessile hairs ; relative length 1, 4, 3, 2. 



Palpi stout, but not very long, similar to the legs in colour; 

 some coarse yellowish hairs form a ring at the extremities of 

 the cubital and radial joints ; digital joint large. But the 

 palpal organs were too much concealed in the dry specimen 

 for satisfactory observation. 



Falces nearly straight, rather projecting, and a little hollowed 

 on inner sides, strong, equal in length to the height of the 

 facial space ; fang red-brown, not very long nor strong. 



MaxillcB and labium too much concealed to render their 

 structure visible : apparently they were of a dark red-brown 

 colour, furnished with a few coarse yellowish hairs. 



Sternum long oval, black, with a broad longitudinal central 

 band of yellowish hairs ; this band was rather dilated in the 

 middle. 



Abdomen oval, broader at posterior than at anterior extre- 

 mity, of a dark brown-black colour ; the fore half of the upper- 

 side, as well as a space above the spinners, and the underside 

 were thickly clothed with coarse yellowish hairs. 



An adult $ of this species, remarkable for the tumidity of the 

 tibiae of the first pair of legs, is in the Hope Collection, Oxford. 

 Hob. " Mysore, India." 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate IV. 



Storetia variegata. 



Fig. 1. Spider in profile, much enlarged, without legs. 



Fig. 2. Fore-right view of cephalothorax and falces. 



Fig. 3. Portion of tarsus of first pair of legs, showing the three terminal 



claws. 

 Fig. 4. Position of eyes, from front. 

 Fig. 5. Spider in profile, magnified. 

 Fig. 6. Natural length of spider. 



Storena scintittans. 



Fig. 7. Spider in profile, without legs, much enlarged. 



Fig. 8. Position of eyes, from front. 



Fig. 9. Tarsus and portion of metatarsus of leg of hinder (fourth) pair. 



Fig. 10. Spider in profile, magnified a little. 



Fig. 11. Natural length. 



Storena Bradleyi. 



Fig. 12. Spider in profile, much enlarged, without legs. 

 Fig. 13. Position of eyes, from front. 



