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divides it from the lower part of the caput. There is a shining white spot at the bottom 
of the fore end of this indentation; the elevation is slightly retreating, i. e. situated” 
rather more on the hinder than on the fore part of the caput, thus leaving the lower 
portion of this latter (including the clypeus) rounded and prominent. The height of the 
clypeus is equal to the space between the fore and hind pairs of eyes (not including the 
diameters of the eyes themselves); the division of caput and thorax is marked behind by 
strong grooves; the lateral grooves of the thorax are almost obsolete ; the profile outline 
of the caput and thorax, from the hinder part of the latter to the summit of the 
former, is nearly straight, and gradually ascending, the occipital depression being slight ; 
there is a large, round, shallow, dish-shaped depression on either side of the caput, 
immediately below and connected with the groove which marks the lower side of the 
elevation ; on either side of the fore part of the elevation is a thin tuft of longish, strong, 
bristly, black hairs, directed forwards and outwards, and three or four other single hairs 
between the two tufts behind the posterior pair of eyes. A narrow space connecting 
the fore and hind pairs of eyes is covered with very short hairs; the elevation of the caput 
is divided at the fore part by a very slight longitudinal indentation. 
Eyes in four pairs on the front of the caput, and seated on black spots ; those of the 
hinder (or upper) pair, in the front of the elevation, are less than an eye's diameter dis- 
tant from each other; those of the lower pair are contiguous to each other, and seated on 
a common black spot; these are rather the smallest of the eight, and darkest in colour; 
those of the lateral pairs are contiguous to each other, and placed obliquely, above the 
straight line of the lower pair; the space between each of the lateral pairs and the lower 
pair is slightly greater than the diameter of a fore lateral eye; the two lateral pairs and 
the lower pair may be described as forming a transverse curved row (the curve directed ` 
downward) aeross the middle of the caput 3 and the lower pair equally divides the length 
of the facial space. 
Legs tolerably strong and long. Relative length 4, 1, 2, 3; colour yellow, femora and 
tibiæ slightly tinged with reddish orange; they are slightly furnished with yellowish 
hairs, among which are a very few (on the uppersides of the tibial, genual, and meta- 
tarsal joints) erect and darker-coloured. 
Palpi not very long, nor strong; colour yellow; the fore extremity of the radial joint 
is tinged with reddish; cubital joint longer than the radial, curved, and slightly enlarged 
at its fore extremity; radial joint enlarged at its extremity, produced in front, mostly 
towards the inner side, into a subangular point, with an irregular margin, forming two 
or three short points. Digital joint short-oval, and not very large. Palpal organs well 
developed and rather complicated; they have two short, stout, black, eorneous spines at 
their extremity, one of which is slightly tortuous, or corkscrew-shaped. 
Falces strong, subconical, retreating beneath the lower margin of the clypeus; length 
rather greater than the height of the clypeus, inclined towards the sternum, and in 
colour the same as the cephalothorax. | 
Macille much enlarged laterally at the base, moderately long, obliquely truncate, and 
rounded: on the outer sides towards the extremities ; they are inclined towards the labium, 
which is short and semicircular ; these parts are similar in colour to the gs 
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