BY A. T. TJRQUHART. 101 



tarsal joints of I. — II. deeper tone ; armature, fine, ad- 

 pressed, pale yellowish, and erect black dairs ; spines black. 



Palpi colour of legs ; sliort, slender ; humeral joint incras- 

 sated forwards ; spine armature I., III. on fore-tliird ; cubital 

 joint sub-linear, more than one-third length of former article, 

 projects a moderate bristle ; radial joint about half length of 

 cubital, produced on outer side into a strong, flattish, clath- 

 rate, blackish-lake process, directed forwards, upcurved, 

 equal to article in length ; pars digitalis, lamina oval, fairly 

 haired, few bristles ; bulb sienna-brown, few vein-like, dark 

 brown lines ; regulose ; elongate, moderately tiunid, posterior 

 end cleft ; covered by a dusky, wrinkled, membrane on inner 

 side ; fore-half — rather more — longitudinally intersected by a 

 deep groove ; extremity of bulbous concave, deeply emargi- 

 nate ; inner lobe, which extends nearly to apex of lamina, 

 drawn out into a wide tapering spiral, bright orange-red 

 apophysis, lying across extremity of bulb; outer lobe pro- 

 duced into two processes, upper simi-pellucid, conical ; plainly 

 visible immediately beneath it is a broad, rounded, black 

 process, contiguous to a pale pyriform lobe. 



Abdomen ovate, moderately convex ; tolerably well clothed 

 with fine light-yellow and erect black hairs ; yellowish stone- 

 colour, markings blackish- violet; on basal-third is an elongate 

 figure of no determinate form, followed by a series of about 

 seven, sub-touching, broad lanceolate marks, decreasing in 

 size to anus ; directed inwards from lateral borders are 

 several large tooth-like projections. 



Fern. — Ceph. th., long, 7 ; wide, 4-9. Abd., long, 8-5 ; 

 wide, 4-9 ; legs, 4, 1—2, 3-=18, 16, 13 mm. 



Cephalothorax shade darker than males, visibly more dilated. 



Eyes do not di:ffer essentially from males. 



Falces brownish-lake ; transversely rugose ; conical, gibbous 

 at base in front, project moderately. 



MaxillcB and lip lake-brown ; normal form. 



Sturnum. brownish-orange, brown spots opposite coxae. 



Legs, in colour and armature resemble males. Femora of 

 first and second legs have I. I., II. slender spines, of hind 

 pairs, I., I., III. ; patellae of III. — IV. one side-spine ; tibiae 

 of I. II., 2, 2 beneath; of III — lY., 7 somewhat irregular 

 spines; metatarsi of I. II. have 2 basal; of III. — IV., have 

 respectively 6 — 8 ; distal rings of 6 sjjines. 



Palpi colour and armature of legs. 



Abdomen in form, colouration, and specific pattern does not 

 differ essentially from the male. Corpus vulvce sub-circular, 

 inferior-half moderately elevated, transversely wrinkled, light 

 reddish-brown, fuscous stains ; centre of superior-half occu- 



