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Selenotholus foelschei, nov. sp. (Text-fig. 26.) 

 Female. The cephalothorax is reddish, covered _ with sliort 

 yellow to yellow-brown hair. Mandibles darker, with thick, but 

 smooth downlying yellow-brown hair, darkest in front ; fangs 

 black-brown, but "the outer side by palp bright red. Lip and 

 maxillfe red -brown with reddish hair. Sternum and coxae deep 

 brown : rest of legs and palpi same as mandibles ; the patella of 

 third and fourth pairs somewhat darker. The abdomen, both 

 upper and under sides, is a rich golden brown covered with smooth 



glossy hair. 



Text-fio-. 26. 



Selenotliolus foelschei. 

 a, profile (nat. size) ; h, eyes. 



The cephalothorax is one-eighth part longer than broad, sloping 

 moderately upwards from the clearly-recurved thoracic fovea lying 

 between the second and third pair of legs to the eye-space, which 

 is more than 2^ times as broad as long and situated on a tubercle, 

 3i mm. X 2, reaching to the margin of the carapace. 



^The front row of eyes is slightly procurved, the median pair 

 U diameters apart and 1^ of their diameter from the laterals ; 

 they are of a bright orange colour, standing on transparent black 

 rims, which I have not allowed for in their size. The front laterals 

 are U times the diameter of the median, and, together with the 

 rear row, are of a pale yellow. The rear row is straight ;^ the 

 laterals, half the diameter of the front laterals, are as far from 

 them as the latter from the front median. The rear median, 

 slightly smaller than the laterals in long diameter, are their 

 breadth away from the latter and twice their length from the 

 front median and ten times their own breadth, or five diameters 

 of the front middle, apart. ^ • i.x. 



The mandibles are thickly covered with close-lying hair, the 

 fangs long and powerful, the inner margin of falx-sheath furnished 

 with about 12 large teeth, and the intermediate area with about 



50 smaller, reaching almost to base of fang. The stridulatmg- 



