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Both sexes. — Cephalothorax red-brown or pale yellow, 

 eloiigatc-oval, sliglitly narrowed and blutily rounded in i'ront. 

 Caput slightly depressed in front ; dorsal profile horizontal, 

 sliglitly concave in middle, gradually inclined towards the 

 base; median line set with six or eight isolated curved 

 hairs. 



Eyes large and closely grouped ; posterior row straight, 

 eyes equal, equidL-^tant, one diameter apart; anterior row 

 slightly curved, convexity forwards, centrals smaller, half a 

 diameter apart, one diameter from laterals. 



Clypeus as high as ocular area, vertical. 



Maxillte with several setigerous granulations. 



Sternum as broad as long, light brown, set with short 

 isolated black hairs, terminating behind between posterior 

 coxaj in a conical point. 



Legs dull yellow-brown, clothed with short hairs ; femora 

 without spines, exhibiting a double row of long fine hairs 

 beneath ; genua with one spine at apex; tibise i., ii., iii. with 

 two spines on upperside, tibiaj iv. * with one spine only, 

 situated towards the base. Tarsal claws 3 ; superiors 

 slender, pectinate, inferior with one tooth. 



Abdomen dull whity-brown pinkish or darker olive-green, 

 mottled with pale dull white spots, often exhibiting (female 

 sex chiefly) a posterior, central, dorsal series of slender 

 A -shaped bars ; ventral surface margined on either side with 

 a pale line. 



Mcde. — Falces four times the length of the clypeus ; basal 

 joint very stout, convex on upper side, striate on outer side, 

 exhibiting on the outer side in front rather towards the apex 

 some fine setigerous granules ; attenuated and divergent 

 towards apex, bearing between the inner angle and the apex 

 a long, stout, slightly curving, bluntly pointed tooth, directed 

 outwards and forwards, its apex set with a single fine hair; 

 upper margin of fang-groove furnished with five small teeth 

 (PI. XX. fig. 5, B). 



Palpus short ; cubital joint one half longer than broad, 

 bearing at apex a single curving spine, liadial joint twice 

 as long as broad, clothed with short hairs, its outer, upper, 

 anterior angle produced into a short, sharp, up-curving spur 

 (PI. XX. fig. 5, E (a)). 



Digital joint very small, one half only longer than radial 

 joint, prominent at base on outer side, clothed with hairs, its 

 apex exhibiting four or five bristles. Palpal organs simple, 



* Tibiae i., iv., &c. signifies the tibiul joints of the first pair or fourth 

 pair of legs, as the case may be. Thus also femora i,, ii., &c. 



