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specimen of 3 lines long, 13 lines; breadth of cephalothorax rather 
over | line. 
Adult male. Length 14 lines. 
The sexes are very dissimilar in appearance. In the female the 
cephalothorax is oblong, caput very large, hinder slope abrupt, 
upper surface moderately convex; the ocular area occupies at least 
one third of the whole length of the cephalothorax, and the height 
of the clypeus is scarcely equal to the length of the area of the four 
central eyes. ‘The colour is yellow-brown, with a broad dark brown 
longitudinal band on each side. The whole is clothed with coarsish 
grey hairs, showing most conspicuously on the lateral margins, on 
the central space between the dark lateral bands, being especially 
long and conspicuous at the thoracie junction, and forming some 
white lines connecting the eyes and bisecting the area of the four 
central ones. 
The eyes form a very large quadrangle, whose posterior side is the 
shortest and its anterior much the longest. They are small, the 
posterior eyes of the central group largest, the rest apparently 
nearly equal. Those of the central group are close together at the 
fore extremity of the quadrangle, but not contiguous, forming a 
small square or trapezoid, whose anterior side is shorter than the 
posterior. The interval between the eyes of these two sides respec- 
tively is greater than a diameter, while the interval between each 
anterior and the posterior eve next to it is less than the diameter of 
an anterior eye. 
The legs are strong and of moderate length, 1, 4, 2, 3, of a yellow- 
brown colour; the femora, as well as the tibie of the first and 
second pairs, nearly black ; in some examples the legs have a some- 
what annulose appearance. They are almost entirely destitute of 
spines, but thickly clothed with hairs, of which many are grey, 
giving them a hoary look. ‘The tibize of the first two pairs are rather 
stouter than the rest, and the metatarsi of the first pair, in old 
females, are of a brightish red hue, those of the second pair less so. 
Towards the inner side of the metatarsi of the fourth pair is a 
calamistrum running the whole length of the joint, but much 
concealed by the other hairs. 
Falces strong, of moderate length, vertical, subconical, darker in 
colour than the cephalothorax, and clothed with grey hairs, a band 
across the base in front being more dense and conspicuously white. 
The fangs are bright red-brown, but rather weak. 
The mavilla, labium, and sternum are deep brown, clothed with 
grey hairs, and of normal form. 
The abdomen is oval, a little broader in some examples behind 
than in front ; its general colour is more or less bright warm yellow- 
brown, clothed with grey and other hairs; on the upperside are 
three longitudinal, more or less well-defined dark brown stripes, of 
which the central one is the narrowest and least conspicuous, and the 
lateral ones are often dentated posteriorly, The lateral margins and 
sides also are dark black-brown, and on the underside are two 
conspicuous reddish-yellow-brown patches, placed transversely and 
