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red-brown ; they are furnished with hairs, bristles, and numerous 

 deep black-brown spines, some of which, especially those on the 

 tibiae, tarsi, and metatarsi, are long and strong. Each tarsus ends 

 with three claws ; those of the superiors strong, curved, and pecti- 

 nated, and the inferior one small and much bent at its base. 



The palpi are short and similar in colour and armature to the 

 legs ; the cubital joint is somewhat nodose, and rather stouter, though 

 shorter, than the radial, which has a long pointed apophysis at its 

 outer extremity ; this apophysis bends sharply upwards, and is in 

 close contact with the digital joint, almost seeming as if it were 

 grown into the digital joint ; it has also a strong angular point 

 on its lower surface ; the digital joint is large and of an oval form, 

 bent or flattened in on the outer side, and armed with some short', 

 strong, black spines near its extremity on the upperside ; the palpal 

 organs are well developed but simple 'in structure, forming a slightly 

 prominent lobe almost divided transversely near the middle by a strong 

 constriction. 



The falces are large, powerful; and their colour is yellow; they 

 are densely clothed in front with short blackish hairs ; the fan°-s are 

 short, recurved, not very powerful, and of a deep red-brown colour. 

 The maxilla are short, strong, and curved towards the labium ; the 

 curve of their outer margin is almost that of a circle ; their colour 

 is pale yellow ; and they are furnished with strong bristlv prominent 

 black hairs. The labium is more than half the length of the maxillse • 

 it is of an oblong form, rather the narrowest at its apex, which is 

 somewhat rounded ; its colour is pale yellow ; and it is furnished 

 with a few dark hairs. 



The abdomen is rather small, of a short oval form, broadest towards 

 the hinder extremity ; and its ground-colour is yellow, furnished, but 

 not densely, with fine lnurs of a pale hue ; a broad transverse bar of 

 black-brown runs round and beneath its fore margin, and from the 

 centre of this, and at right angles to it, a narrower bar of the same 

 colour runs backwards for about half the length of the abdomen ; 

 this bar is strongly enlarged at about the middle into an obtusely 

 angular point on each side ; these angles are succeeded by another 

 small one on each side ; and the hinder extremity of the bar is also 

 a little enlarged and pointed, forming a somewhat diamond-shaped 

 termination ; this bar is succeeded towards the spinners by two 

 slightly converging rows of dark black- brown spots or short trans- 

 verse bars, five in each row ; the first two of these are in a line 

 with the extreme point of the longitudinal central bar ; between 

 the two second spots is a faint indication of a third ; and in a line 

 with (he large angular enlargements of the central bar, on either 

 side, is a strong irregular lateral patch of a similar colour ; and this 

 is followed on each side, backwards, by two other much smaller 

 patches, decreasing proportionally in size ; the spinners are short. 



An adult female, though much smaller, was evidently of this 

 species, and had the lateral markings on the abdomen longer, as well 

 as the inferior spinners of much greater length. 



A single adult male of this fine and striking species, upon which 



