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base of metatarsus ; claw tuft projects beyond claws, wHcli 

 are stout, short, well-curved ; about 4 open teetb. 



Paljpi yellowish-amber colour ; fairly well armed with 

 hairs ; pars humiralis compressed, perceptibly longer than 

 cubital and radial joints together ; j^ars cubitalis cup-shape, 

 shorter than penultimate and digital joints, which are of 

 about equal length. 



J.Mome?i elongate-oviform, base truncated, stalk exposed; 

 somewhat thickly clothed with short, light-yellowish hairs ; 

 ground colour light olive-brown ; posterior-third clouded 

 with fuscous-green ; elongate, light olive-green mark on. 

 central third; ventral region shade lighter than dorsal; 

 rather thickly clothed light-brown hairs, grouped in open 

 tufts, arranged somewhat in lines. Corpus vulvce represents 

 a large, sub-hexagonal, moderately elevated, areolated area, 

 centre purple -chestnut, passing into amber-brown; inferior 

 half occupied by a large, deep, sub-circular fovea, whose hind- 

 margin is developed into a single scolopi ; fore-margin inter- 

 rupted by a reddish, black bordered, wide, linear-oval groove, 

 which curves over the more tumid, superior half of corpus, 

 terminating above the rima genitalis. 



Single example, Launceston. 



Gen. Deassus, Walck. 



Drassus pellus, sp. nov, 



^em.— Ceph. th., long, 4'9 ; broad, 3 ; facial ind., 2-5. 

 Abd., long, 5 ; broad, 3 ; legs, 1, 4, 2, 3=14-3, 12, 11, 97 mm. 



Cephalothorax light burnt amber, greenish tone, facial area, 

 strice and marginal zone darker shade ; fairly well clothed 

 with a light pulaescence, erect black hairs on caput ; oval, 

 moderately constricted beyond coxal joints of first legs; 

 cephalic region dilated forwards, truncation visibly rounded, 

 convex; clypeus in height fully equals breadth of a fore- 

 centre eye; thoracic part convex, sides impressed above 

 marginal zone ; normal grooves shallow; profile-line dips at 

 an angle of 50 deg. to thoracic junction from limit of caput, 

 ascends somewhat shapely over cephalic region, which is 

 rather prominently rounded on fore-part. 



Posterior row of eyes somewhat strongly procurved, centrals 

 visibly smaller than laterals of same row, removed rather 

 further from them than they are from each other ; anterior 

 row slightly recurved, median-pair sensibly larger than lateral 

 eyes, separated by an interval nearly equal to an eye's 

 diameter, less than their breadth and a half from side eyes, 

 which are placed obliquely on a strong tubercle, divided by a 

 space surpassing the breadth of the hind and somewhat 

 smallest eye. 



