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Color. Cephalothorax very dark brown, almost black, 

 with white hairs around the anterior eyes and yellow hairs in 

 the constriction and qn the thoracic part. Abdomen dark 

 brown in one specimen, light brown in the other (both being 

 somewhat injured); the dark one having some long, white 

 hairs on the upper surface, while the light one shows a trans- 

 verse white band in front of the middle. Palpi, falces, mouth 

 parts and sternum dark brown. First legs, with coxse, pale ; 

 trochanter and femur dark brown, patella and tibia light 

 brown, with a black longitudinal line on each side, and meta- 

 tarsus and tarsus dark brown. Second leg, Avith coxa, tro- 

 chanter and femur, dark brown, and the remaining joints light 

 brown, with the two longitudinal black lines as in the first leg. 

 Third leg witli all the joints dark brown. Fourth leg all dark 

 brown excepting the trochanter and the proximal end of the 

 patella, which are pale. 



Habiiat. Madagascar. 



EMERTONIUS N. 



Cephalothorax moderatel}^ high and curiously shaped, the 

 anterior two-thirds of the thoracic part being raised into a 

 ridge or protuberance from which the slope to the posterior 

 margin is concave. The cephalic part is not inclined forward. 

 The quadrangle of the eyes is one-fourth wider than long, 

 wider behind than in front, and occupies nearly one-half of the 

 cephalothorax. First row of eyes slightly curved downward, 

 eyes all touching ; middle almost twice as large as lateral eyes. 

 Second row of eyes a very little nearer the first than the third 

 row. Dorsal eyes large, bulging out beyond the margin of the 

 cephalothorax. Lip much longer than wide. 



EMERTONIUS EXASPERAXS. 



PI. IV., Fig. 8, male; 8a, face and falces; 8b, side of 

 cephalothorax. 



S. Total length, 6.5 mm. 



Cephalothorax: Length, 3 mm.; width, L5 mm. 

 Legs, 4132 ; equally stout. 



