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Victoria have the same proportions, but there are no visible spots 

 on the back, the sternum and coxse are dark brown and not black, 

 the hair on the abdomen is rather finer, with wavy darker and 

 lighter streaks on the sides of the abdomen, and one spine only 

 instead of two on tibia iii. I do not think these dififerences are 

 sufficient to justify a new species. 



Text-fig. 90. 



Isopeda leishmanni. 

 A, eyes ; B, epigyne ; C, male palp. 



Isopeda leishmanni, nov. sp. (Text-fig. 90.) 



Female. — Cephalothoras and mandibles red-brown, v/ith yel- 

 lowish-grey hair. Lip and maxillse red-brown. Sterrum dark 

 brown, with nearly black hair. Abdomen dingy reddish bi'own 

 with greyish- yellow hair, lighter on the underside. A darker 

 brown median longitudinal stripe with scolloped pattern is just 



