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whitish, with numerous, colourless, apically notched, cylindrical 

 bristles and a small number of longer blackish brown ones ; the soft 

 skin on the sides blackish brown, sharply marked off from the pale 

 yellowish or whitish under surface, which is thickly covered with 

 pale notched bristles. 



Pedipalps blackish brown, the tip of the tarsus sometimes 

 yellowish, the trochanter pale and more or less tinged with dark 

 brown, the metatarsus thickly clothed on all sides with erect, trun- 

 cated, almost black cylinder-bristles, with some longer dark brown 

 bristles scattered amongst them, but without pointed spines ; the 

 rest of the limb, including the coxa, with mostly dark brown bristles, 

 the outer and dorsal surface of the tibia with a coat of short 

 truncated or notched cylindrical bristles. 



Fig. 6. — Hemiblossia o'ncili, n. sp. ; 

 tarsus of fourth leg of ad. c? and ? , 

 seen from the side (the segmentation 

 is much too distinctly marked in the 

 figure) . 



Fig. 7. — Hemiblossia o'ncili, n. sp. 

 chelicera of c? from medial side. 



Legs entirely pale yellowish or more or less tinged with blackish 

 brown, with numerous colourless shorter bristles and a smaller 

 number of longer dark brown ones ; tarsus of fourth leg short, the 

 thick part a little more than three times as long as high, often 

 indistinctly divided by a transverse dorsal groove and by fine oblique 

 lateral lines into 2 equal but not movably articulated segments, the 

 dorsal groove sometimes obsolete and the tarsus then apparently 

 unsegmented ; femur of fourth leg thick, about 2^ times as long as 

 high. Malleoli broadly black-edged. 



ChelicercB blackish-brown, with a lateral and 2 dorsal darker 

 stripes; the upper finger strong, curving downwards distally, the 



