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truncated in front, rounded on the sides, and has a large in- 

 dentation in the medial line of the posterior region ; it is of a 

 pale yellowish-brown colour, with a somewhat obscure soot- 

 coloured band, which is bifid before, extending from the me- 

 dial indentation nearly to the eyes, and a short streak of the 

 same hue directed backwards from each lateral pair of eyes. 

 The falces are powerful, conical, convex near the base in 

 front, somewhat inclined towards the sternum, armed with 

 teeth on the inner surface, and of a brownish-yellow hue, the 

 anterior convexity being rather the darkest. The maxillge are 

 straight and increase in breadth from the base to the extremity, 

 which is rounded ; they are of a dull reddish-brown colour, 

 being darkest in the medial line. The lip is semicircular 5 

 and the sternum is heart-shaped, with prominences on the 

 sides, opposite to the legs. These parts are of a dark reddish- 

 brown hue, the base of the former and the lateral margins of 

 the latter being much the darkest. The legs are long, slender, 

 provided with hairs and erect black spines, and of a yellowish- 

 brown colour, the tibise and metatarsi of the third and fourth 

 pairs having a few obscure brownish annuli ; the first pair is 

 the longest, then the second, and the third pair is the shortest ; 

 each tarsus is terminated by three claws of the usual structure, 

 and below them there are several smaller ones. The palpi 

 resemble the legs in colour, but they are without annuli, and 

 have a slightly curved, minutely pectinated claw at their ex- 

 tremity. The eyes are seated on black spots on the anterior 

 part of the cephalothorax ; the four intermediate ones nearly 

 form a square, the two posterior ones being rather wider apart 

 than the anterior ones, which are seated on a slight promi- 

 nence ; and those of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a 

 tubercle, and are near to each other, but not in contact. The 

 abdomen is oviform, sparingly clothed with short hairs, convex 

 above, and proiects over the base of the cephalothorax ; at its 

 junction with the latter part a semicircular brown mark occurs 

 whose convexity is directed upwards ; on the upper part there 

 is a large, olive-brown, leaf-like mark, minutely freckled with 

 pale-yellow, and more or less tinged with red, on the posterior 

 half of whose sinuous margins there are several black spots ; 

 the anterior part of this leaf-like mark is the broadest, and 

 comprises a large irregular white mark, to which succeed se- 

 veral somewhat triangular ones that diminish in size as they 

 approach the spinners ; the entire series is bisected longitudi- 

 nally by a fine ramified black or brown line ; on each side of 

 the leaf-like mark there is a broad, irregular, white band, 

 sometimes having a tinge of pale red ; the sides have a dark- 

 brown hue mottled with pale yellow, and the under part, which 



