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of the central line ; these bands run the whole length of the cepha- 

 lothorax, leaving two broad yellow marginal bands, and a still broader 

 central one which has at its fore extremity two short, fine, dark brown 

 lines originating at the two hind central eyes, running backwards 

 for a little way, and converging into one. The normal indentation 

 which indicates the central junction of the caput and thorax is shown 

 by a fine, longitudinal, bright, red brown line ; this line is some- 

 times produced forwards and so meets the two above-mentioned 

 converging hues. 



The eyes are nearly equal in size, and are in two transverse rows ; 

 the front row is straight, and the curve of the hinder row is directed 

 backwards ; the eyes of each lateral pair are a little obliquely placed, 

 and are contiguous to each other ; those of the front row, which is 

 the shortest, are about equidistant from each other, and are appa- 

 rently smaller than those of the hinder row, of which the centrals are 

 slightly nearer to each other than each is to the lateral on its side ; 

 the height of the clypeus is about equal to the diameter of one of the 

 fore central eyes. The leys and palpi are a little deeper-coloured 

 than the cepbalothorax ; the former are long and strong ; their 

 relative length 4, 1, 2, 3, and are furnished with hairs, bristles, and 

 spines ; each tarsus has a kind of scopula beneath its whole length, 

 and terminates with two curved claws, beneath which is a strongish 

 tuft of hairs. 



The palpi are moderately long and strong ; the humeral joint is 

 enlarged gradually at its fore extremity, near which on the upper- 

 side it is encircled by a series of fine black spines, each end of the 

 series being a small compact group of several black bristles: the 

 cubital and radial joints are about equal in length ; the latter is the 

 least strong, and has numerous long bristly hairs, mostly on the 

 underside, and it is produced at its extremity on the outer side into 

 a short, bent, pointed, prominent, red-brown, corneous apophysis ; 

 the digital joint is large, of an oval form, and pointed at its extre- 

 mity : the palpal organs are well developed and not very complex ; 

 they consist of one or two corneous lobes, from the hinder one of 

 which towards the inner side a red-brown spine issues and curves 

 round backwards beneath the base of the radial joint, and so round 

 the outer margin of the digital joint, terminating near its fore extre- 

 mity in a fine filiform point. The falces are of ordinary form and 

 strength. The maxillce are moderately long and strong ; they are 

 somewhat oblong, rounded at their extremities on the outer side, and 

 slightly inclined to the labium, which is short, broad, and nearly 

 quadrate ; these parts, with the sternum, are similar to the cephalo- 

 thorax in colour, the falces being a little darker. 



The abdomen is of a long-oval form, and of a paler yellow than 

 the cepbalothorax ; it has on its upperside two longitudinal con- 

 verging brown-black bands, which appear like the continuation 

 of the bands on the cephalothorax ; near their hinder portion 

 these two (abdominal) bands are charged with a short longi- 

 tudinal series of nearly confluent and not very distinct yellowish 

 spots ; they are, however, sufficiently distinct to be a characteristic 



