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sparse, spines binstle-like, 1 or 2 on femora of I — II; patellse 

 project 1 ; tibiae 2 or 3 ; metatarsi less ; superior tarsal claws 

 — 1st pair, loDg, slender, sligbtlj curved, about 18 short, 

 close teeth ; inferior claw sbarj^ly bent, 1 long tooth. 



Palpi pale-brown, radial joint greenish ; armed with 

 bristles ; palpal claw long, slender, somewhat straight, tip 

 bent, 6 short open teeth. 



Abdomen oviform, depressedly convex, greenish gamboge, 

 more or less stained with reddish-lake, spotted with silver 

 lobate specks — few golden, more or less confluent along 

 margin of dorsal band ; latter broad at posterior end, tapers 

 •forward to a mere streak, displays two cross-bars on basal 

 curves ; broader part exhibits 6 or 7 ill-defined arcuate-bars ; 

 the indigo-brown colour of ventral region encroaches in a 

 wedge-shape into lateral margins from posterior end ; shield 

 sub-oval, border light brown, silvery flecks. Corpus vulvas 

 'represents a dark brown, sub-circular elevation ; each lateral 

 slope indented by a small, shallow, ovate fovea, whose apex 

 is directed inwards ; fovea connected by a strong, dark, 

 Y-shaped costa, whose extremity reaches over the edge of the 

 somewhat abrupt incline above the rima genitalis. 



Two examples. 



Gen. Theriditjm, Walck. 



Theridium pilatum, sp. nov. 



Mas. — Ceph. th., long, 2 ; wide, 1'5. Abd., long, 2'2 ; 

 wide, 17 ; legs, 1, 2, 4, 3= 12, 8*2, 7-5, 49 mm. 



CephalotJiorax brownish-stone, passing into ochreous-orange 

 about facial region, sjDeckled with olive-brown; median band 

 dilated on caput, mottled with olive-brown ; hairs very sparse ; 

 ovate, lateral compression slight ; cephalix part convex, round- 

 pointed,; height of clypeus equal to rather less than one-half 

 depth of facial space ; thoracic region convex, fovea sub-oval, 

 deep ; caput and radial striae moderately defined ; profile- 

 contour represents a double arch ; thoracic curve which 

 rises sensibly above plane of caput, dips abruptly ; cephalic 

 part forwardly inclined. 



Eyes on dark rings, of moderate and nearly equal size; 

 posterior row procurved, centrals divided by nearly an eye's 

 interval, removed one-fourth more than that space from side- 

 eyes ; anterior row recurved, median pair dark, largest of 

 eight, separated from one another by scarcely more than an 

 eye's diameter, and from side-eyes by an interval sensibly 

 less than their radius ; laterals smallest of eight, seated 

 obliquely on a common, lake-brown tubercle, sub-touching. 



Falces ochreous-orange ; slender, conical, vertical, length 

 equal to breadth of ocular area. 



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