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are black, as well as also generally the tips of those of the 

 fourth pair, and in some cases of all the rest also : the femora 

 of all the legs are more or less clouded or suffused with black ; 

 and frequently their uppersides have two elongate-oval un- 

 suffused patches, giving them a somewhat striped look ; they 

 are clothed with hairs and long spines. 



The palpi are of a deep brown colour, approaching to black ; 

 the radial joint is much stronger but no longer than the 

 cubital ; it is, together with the digital joint, of a jet-black 

 colour, thickly clothed with black hairs ; this latter joint is 

 large, broad at the base, and pointed at its fore extremity ; 

 the basal bulb of the palpal organs is large and prominent ; 

 the oblique process just in front of it is long, strong, and curved 

 a little in towards the digital hollow near its extremity ; it is 

 nearly or quite black, and tapers a little to its obtuse extre- 

 mity, its surface being rather roughened or rugulose. 



The falces are yellowish, more or less marked with longitu- 

 dinal stripes or patches of deep blackish brown. 



The maxillce and labium are also of a yellowish colour, witli 

 their bases generally suffused with brown. 



Sternum deep black-brown. 



The abdomen is dark brown, clothed thickly with hairs 

 varying in hue from grey and yellowish grey to black : in 

 many examples it is difficult to trace the usual pattern ; but in 

 some it is tolerably distinct, especially in immature examples 

 and those only lately come to maturity : the pattern is like 

 that of L. ftuviatilis, Bl. ; the characteristic elongate marking 

 on the fore half of the upperside is blunt-pointed behind and 

 obtusely angular on each side near the middle, forming an 

 almost elongate-oval stripe, edged indistinctly with black, its 

 own colour being dull brownish yellow, often clothed with 

 pale greyish hairs on either side ; following this marking to 

 the spinners is a row of irregular and generally indistinct 

 blackish spots, between which is a series of angular rusty 

 yellowish hairs, or short, oval, oblique, opposed patches, which 

 diminish in size as they approach the hinder extremity of the 

 abdomen. 



The above description fairly applies to both sexes ; but in 

 some females the pattern is much better marked than in others 

 or than in most examples of the male sex ; in such females 

 the angular bars, or opposed oblique patches, have each of 

 them a distinct black spot, which thus appear in a longitu- 

 dinal series in four or five pairs, each pair placed transversely; 

 the sides of the abdomen have also' a mottled appearance, 

 apparently from numerous small tufts of pale hairs. The legs 

 in most of the females are of a darker hue than those of the 



