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lothorax tinged with orange-brown (the ocular region being brown) 

 and clothed with short fine pale hairs; a rather indistinct, narrow 

 elongate wedge-shaped, brown stripe runs backwards from between 

 the hind central eyes, and the normal grooves and indentations are 

 marked by dusky converging stripes. In form the cephalothorax is 

 short, round behind, constricted laterally at the caput, truncate before, 

 but not so broad at this part as in some other species ; the hinder 

 slope is gradual ; and the whole profile describes a pretty uniform 

 curve, of which the occiput is the middle and the highest part 



lhe eyes are of moderate size, those of the fore central pair bein» 

 the largest ; their position is ordinary, the two rows occupying very 

 nearly the whole width of the fore part of the caput; the clypeus 

 is very low less than the diameter of one of the fore central eyes 

 lhe eyes of each row, severally, appeared to be as nearly as pos- 

 sible equidistant from each other ; the four central eyes form a square- 

 those ol each lateral pair are contiguous to each other and seated ob- 

 liquely on a tubercle ; all are on black spots, forming a narrow rim 

 to each. 



The legs are long and rather slender ; their relative length is 1 

 4, 1, 6 ; and they are furnished with hairs and spines : one of the latter 

 is noticeable ; it is beneath the fore extremity of the metatarsi of the 

 third and fourth (or two hinder) pairs, stronger than the rest, but 

 not so long as some of them, curved and black. Each tarsus ends 

 with two curved pectinated claws, beneath which is a compact scopula 

 lhe palpi are short, but appear to be longer, owing to the great 

 size and length of the digital joint and palpal organs. The cubital 

 joint is very short, the radial being somewhat longer; this latter has 

 its outer extremity produced into a small, black, rather bluntish- 

 pointed, very slightly curved apophysis, and is furnished with promi- 

 nent bristly hairs both on the upper and under side ; there is also a 

 small prominence underneath the extremity of the radial joint, rather 

 on the inner side, and a small spur-like spine from near the fore ex- 

 tremity of the upperside. The digital joint is almost as long as the 

 whole of the rest of the palpus ; looked at from above it is of a long 

 narrow, somewhat sinuous form ; the portion beyond the palpal 

 organs, often of considerable length in some species, is in the present 

 species short; the normal spur at the hinder extremity is short 

 strong, pointed, and directed outwards close over the radial apophysis' 

 lhe palpal organs have a sort of oval nucleus (with a corneous margin 

 on the outer side) beneath the middle of the digital joint, with a 

 considerable and somewhat membranous extension on all sides pro 

 jecting far beyond the limits of the joint; this membranous portion 

 is bounded by an extremely long, slender, sinuous, black, filiform 

 spine, which commences on the inner side and appears to terminate 

 in a coil near the centre of the palpal organs. 



The falces are tolerably strong, rather long; they project forwards 

 a little, and are slightly divergent ; their colour is a*deep, rich, black- 

 ish red-t>rown, that of the maxillae and labium being red-brown 



The abdomen is of an elongate-oval form, highest before, where it 

 projects a little over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull 

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