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thoracic segments; the clypeus is rather less in height than the 
length of the space occupied by the four central eyes. 
Lyes eight, in two curved rows, of which the curves are directed 
backwards ; the front row is the shortest and least curved; the two 
fore central eyes are the largest of the eight, and the hind laterals 
slightly the smallest; those of the front row are equidistant from 
each other, and those of the hind central pair are rather nearer to 
each other than each is to the hind lateral on its side; the four 
central eyes form very nearly a square. 
Legs moderately long and strong, furnished with hairs, bristles, 
and spines, of which latter those beneath the tibize and metatarsi are 
most conspicuous; colour yellowish brown, clothed with a greyish- 
yellow pubescence ; the tarsi are thickly set on their undersides with 
short hairs, and terminate with two strong claws, beneath which is 
a blackish scopula. 
Palpi darker in colour than the legs, especially the digital joints, 
which are of a long, narrow, pointed-oval form, and equal in length 
to the radial and cubital joints together; the radial is longer than 
the cubital, it is rather produced at its extremity in front, and has 
two projections from its outer side, one (which is the smallest of the 
two) at the extremity, rather beneath, projecting over the base of the 
palpal organs, and with a curved dark red-brown spine issuing from 
above it, whose sharply bent point is in contact with the margin of 
che digital joint; it was difficult to see whether this spine issued 
from the radial joint or from the base of the palpal organs, but I 
believe it to be from the former; the other projection issues from 
near the dase of the radial joint on its outer side, it is very strong 
and has three corneous prong-like projections or claws at its ex- 
tremity ; the two upper ones sharp-pointed, the lower one broad and 
obtuse; the palpal organs are of a deep red-brown colour, well 
developed but not very complicated; they consist of a principal 
corneous lobe, at the extremity of which, near the outer side, are 
one or two strong curved points. 
Faices long, strong, conical, vertical, of a deep rich red-brown 
colour approaching black, and the surface rough as if from innu- 
merable minute tubercles; they have also on their surface many 
bristly reddish hairs. 
Mazille strong, curved, rounded on their outer sides, and ob- 
liquely truncate at their inner extremities. 
Labium short, broad, and square at its apex, which has its cor- 
ners slightly rounded off; these parts are of a dark red-brown 
colour, glossy, but furnished with hairs. 
Sternum short-oval, of a reddish yellow-brown colour covered with 
yellow-grey pubescence. 
The abdomen was much shrunken; but its form appeared to be 
oblong-oval, truncate at its fore extremity ; its colour (formed by a 
uniform pubescence) was greyish yellow; on the fore half of the 
upperside was a central longitudinal somewhat oblong band of dark 
black-brown, followed towards the spinners by a series of similarly 
coloured and strongly marked chevrons whose apices had been 
