FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 515 



and bristles. The two rear pairs of legs darken into yellow-brown 

 on the upper sui'face of the tibial and metatarsal joints. The 

 abdomen is black-brown on the upper side ; on the basal area, 

 along the sides of the rear half, and in a procurved fillet across 

 the middle, is a pattern formed of the green, red, and golden 

 scales. 



The under side is pale yellow-brown without any pattern. 



The eye-space is two-fifths of the total length of the cephalo- 

 thorax ; the rear row is as broad as the front row, which is 

 recurved ; the cephalothorax at the rear row of eyes, its broadest 

 part, considerably exceeds them in breadth. The clj^peus is less 

 than one-half the diameter of the front median eyes and termi- 

 nates in a thick flat marginal rim. The mandibles are short, 

 stout, and conical, the fang very thick at the base ; on the inner 

 margin of the falx-sheath the chitinous rim is continued only a 

 short way down as far as a conical tooth : this, though rather 

 small, is not " very minute," and below it the side is hollowed 

 away. On the outer margin are two points on a single base and 

 a thick fringe of bristles. The lip is as broad as long, rounded 

 anteriorly, half the height of the maxill8e, which are upright, 

 convex, broad, and rounded on the outer side. The first pair of 

 coxae, slightly wider apart than the breadth of the lip, are' longer 

 than any of the others. 



The abdomen is oval, about twice as long as broad. 



There are two pairs of stout spines on the under side of meta- 

 tarsus i. and similar smaller ones under metatarsus ii. 



Three pairs of spines under tibia i. with two single spines on 

 the inner side. One on each patella. On femora iii. and iv. there 

 are 1, 1 spines above, and numerous spines on the tibiae and 

 metatarsi. 



On the inner side of the patella, tibia, and metatarsus i. there 

 is a thick fringe of bristles. 



The front pair of legs are stouter than the others. 



The vulva consists of two broad oval depi-essions side by side, 

 separated by a narrow ridge with two other shallower and 

 smaller foveee below the first pair, the whole on an elevated, 

 rather square area. 



The measurements (in millimetres) are as follows : — 



Long. Broad. 



3 in front. 



Cephalothorax... 5 < . 



Abdomen 6 3 



Mandibles 2 



Pat. Metat. 



Coxa. Tr. & fem. & tib. & tars. 



Legs 1. 1| 4 4 3 = 12A 



2. 1 3i 3 2| = 10 



3. 1 4 4 3A = 12J 



4. 1 3i 3 H = ll" 

 Palpi i 1| U li = 5 



