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DOLOMEDES TRIDENTATUS, sp. n. (Text-fig. 96.) 



Female. The cephalothorax is a bright chestnut, a broad area 

 behind the eyes being thickly covered with silvery grey hairs, 

 from this a narrower median streak of similar hair reaches to the 

 rear slope, on each side of this is a broad area of chestnut 

 covered with short orange hairs, and thence nearly to the side 



Text-fiff. 96. 



Dolomedes tridentatus. Female. 

 a, eyes ; h, profile ; c, mandible fi-om inside ; d, tarsal claws ; e, epigjnie. 



margin is again a broad white-haired streak. The mandibles are 

 dark red-brown, thickly covered with long bristly hairs, nearly 

 white on the outer sides, darker grey on the inner. The fangs 

 are red. The lip, maxillae, and sternum are dark brown, thickly- 

 covered with long upstanding brown hairs. The legs and palpi 

 are bright orange, with long brown hairs darkening towards 



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