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dentations are well marked, and suffused with black-brown and dark 

 dusky yellow-brown. The sides of the cephalothorax are furnished 

 with pale dull yellowish adpressed hairs. 



The eyes are in the usual position, two rather widely separated 

 divergently curved lines of four eyes each ; the central eyes of the 

 hinder row are smaller than the laterals, oval, and oblique ; and the 

 space between them is greater than that between each and the lateral 

 of the same row on its side, these last two being almost contiguous to 

 each other. The height of the clypeus is less than half that of the 

 facial space. The eyes of each lateral pair are widely separated from 

 each other ; and the intervals between the eyes of the front row are 

 the same apparently as that between those of the hinder one. 



The leys are rather long and strong ; their relative length is 

 4, 1, 2, .3; they are of a brownish-yellow colour, furnished sparingly 

 with hairs and a few, mostly slender, spines. 



The palpi are short, strong, and similar in colour to the legs : 

 the radial and cubital joints are both short and of about equal length ; 

 but the former is the stronger, and has its outer extremity produced 

 into a strong apophysis, whose length is about a third of that of the 

 digital joint and longer than the radial joint itself; the extremity 

 of this apophysis is flattened, curved, and pointed ; and a little 

 way from the extremity is a corneous-looking, sharp-pointed, hooked 

 prominence directed outwards and backwards : the digital joint is 

 strong, equalling in length the humeral one, and exceeding the radial 

 and cubital together ; it is oval, drawn out at its fore extremity. The 

 palpal organs are well developed and rather prominent, but not very 

 complex, with a slender curved filiform spine issuing from their fore 

 extremity. 



The f alces are moderate in length and strength, vertical, conical, 

 and of a deep red chestnut-brown colour. 



The maxillce and labium are of normal form, and of a dark yellow- 

 brown colour, the extremities of the former being whitish. 



The abdomen is of an oblong-oval form, thinly furnished with 

 hairs ; the upper part and sides are of a sooty brown colour, marked 

 with numerous pale whitish drab spots and blotches somewhat sym- 

 metrically arranged ; some of them form some transverse broken 

 angular bars or chevrons on the hinder half of the upperside, the 

 dark intervals forming transverse curved bars, at the extremities of 

 which on either side is an circular depressed spot of a darker hue. 

 On the fore half of the upperside is an elongate central band of a 

 deep sooty brown, on either side of the posterior part of which are 

 three more conspicuous depressed spots in a parallel line. The 

 underside of the abdomen is of a pale dusky drab-yellow hue, with 

 the plates of the spiracles large and of a yellow-brown colour ; two 

 irregular blackish lines run from this point, a little converging to- 

 wards the spinners, which, however, they do not nearly reach. 



The inferior pair of spinners are long, strong, and of a yellow- 

 brown colour ; those of the superior pair are paler and not half the 

 length of the inferior. 



A single adult male of this distinct species, which is allied to both 



