go PLATE CCCCXXVII. 



The figures., which fhew both the upper and lower furface of this 

 gigantic fpider, fufficiently exemplifies its magnitude and general afpect, 

 being represented in its natural fize. The prevailing colour of the 

 upper furface is darker than the lower ; it is a livid brown faintly 

 Variegated with reddifh. On very clofe infpection, the thorax appears 

 to be obfcurely lineated and dotted with blackiih, radiating from the 

 ridge of the back, as from a center towards the outer margin : the 

 legs alio are lineated with about four or five equidiftant blackifh lines 

 fprinkled with a few dots,, (lightly hairy, and fparingly befet with fmall 

 fetiform fpines : the abdomen rather downy. 



The eyes of this fpider, eight in number, are difpofed on the ante- 

 rior part of the thorax in a lingular manner : the four anterior ones 

 form a tranfverfe curved line, behind which are two contiguous eyes 

 of a fimilar fize, and a little farther behind two more; but the laft 

 are placed much more remotely from each other than the former. 

 Thole pofterior eyes are diftinguifhed likewife fey being ftationed each, 

 upon the fummit of a rather large fmooth lateral tubercle of a rufous 

 colour. The exterior eye on each fide in the anterior line, it fhould 

 be obferved, is feated on a fimilar fmooth rufous tubercle, but which 

 is of a diminutive fize compared with thofe on which the pofterior 

 eyes are fitualed. 



As there is no fpecies of the family to which this fpider belongs 

 among thofe already defcribed by Linnaeus, Fabricius, or any other 

 entomological author within our knowledge, that correfponds with 

 our prefent infeft, we confider it as a new fpecies, 



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