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also elevated into a similar horn, straight, sharp-pointed, and in- 
clining backwards; the surface of the cephalothorax is black; it 
reflects green and golden tints in a strong light, and is uniformly 
granular over the thorax; the caput is strongly and thickly punc- 
tured, and has a bright red-brown hue between the eyes; the cly- 
peus, which is of remarkable size, and wider than the upper part of 
the caput, is about double as broad as it is long; it is rounded on 
the dateral, and hollow on the fore margin ; the latter projects con- 
siderably over the base of the falces, and is armed along its edge 
with a row of small spines. 
The eyes may be described either as in two widely separated 
groups of four each, or in two nearly concentric long curved rows, 
the curve directed forwards, and the hinder row the longest. The 
external eyes of each row are larger than the centrals, and the space 
between each of the centrals of either row is equal; these four eyes 
thus form a transverse parallelogram, whose length is more than 
double its breadth ; the two hind central eyes are the smallest of the 
eight; the two laterals on either side spring (one before and the 
other behind) from the base of the two horns above mentioned. 
Legs black, furnished with a very few small spines, fine bristles, 
and hairs; those of the first three pairs seemed to have little or no 
difference in their relative length, those of the fourth pair being 
considerably the longest ; each femoral joint is prolonged on its 
upperside into a strong bluntish spur; a somewhat bent and long 
narrow cream-yellow stripe is conspicuous on the uppersides of the 
metatarsi of the first two pairs of legs, and a smaller one on those of 
the third pair. The tarsi as well as the fore extremity (on the un- 
derside) of the metatarsi are thickly furnished with hairs; and beneath 
the two terminal claws is a scopula, or brush of close-set hairs. 
Palpi short, strong, and tapering; they are similar to the legs in 
colour; the radial and digital joints are closely united and look 
almost like one joint, the latter are thickly furnished on their under- 
sides with short papillaform hairs. No terminal claw was visible ; 
but possibly a very minute one may be concealed by the hairs with 
which the extremity is furnished. 
Falces short, strong, conical, and nearly vertical; they are set 
back beneath the prominent lower margin of the clypeus; their 
colour is a brightish yellow, with the extremities dark red-brown ; 
and their upper surface is furnished with spiny bristles. 
The mazille, sternum, aud connecting pedicle between the abdo- 
men and cephalothorax are black. 
The abdomen is short, broad-oval or roundish, and a little pointed 
behind, moderately convex above, somewhat rugulose, longitudinally 
on the sides, and transversely below; it is sparingly clothed with 
short hairs and a few pale bristles, and is of a dull greyish olive-green 
hue, broadly darker along the median line of the upperside; on either 
side of this, and not very far from the centre of the abdomen, is a not 
very conspicuous circular impressed eye-like marking of a deep 
brown colour. The spiracular plates form one large deep-black- 
brown shining coriaceous area enclosing the epigyne, the aperture of 
