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yellow patch in a corresponding position ; extremities of metatarsi, 

 and whole of tarsi, of a paler brown ; breadth of tibiae not more than 

 one-third that of femora ; two hinder pairs of legs very similar to the 

 fore ones in respect to colour, but (as before observed) not nearly so 

 long, nor so strong ; nor is there anything like the same relative dis- 

 proportion between the lengths of the tibiaj and femora; those of 

 first pair a little shorter than those of second ; and those of fourth 

 pair a little longer than those of third ; all are thereby furnished with 

 very short yellowish grey hairs, and each tarsus ends with two curved 

 black claws ; those on tarsi of the two hinder pairs small ; but one of 

 those on tai'si of two fore pairs is disproportionately large and strqng 

 in comparison with the other ; it curves sharply near its base, whence 

 to its point it is nearly straight. 



Palpi short, strong, similar to the legs in colour. 



Falces long, tolerably strong, inserted at some little distance behind 

 fore extremity of caput, and much inclined backwards. 



Maxillce short, strong, obliquely truncate at extremities, of which the 

 outer corners are rounded, the inner ones sharp ; slightly inclined to- 

 wards labium, which is very broad, short, rounded at corners of apex, 

 where it is a little depressed or hollow in centre. 



Sternum oval, truncate before, pointed behind ; this part, together with 

 the labium, maxillae, and falces, is similar to the cephalothorax in 

 colour. 



Abdomen much elevated, projects greatly over base of cephalothorax ; 

 it is of a globular form, crushed or bruised in beliind; near the 

 upper corner of the bruise, on either side, is a small blunt tubercular 

 prominence. 



I should have considered that the bruised-in appearance of the 

 abdomen was fortuitous, the result perhaps of the shrinking of the 

 cuticle, had it not been precisely similar in several specimens of 

 two very distinct species ; in the species now under consideration 

 there were specimens both dried and in spirit, but all possessing 

 this very characteristic form of the abdomen. Its colour is yeUow 

 mixed with different shades of brown and black, and with some 

 small tufts of whitish scale-like hairs here and there on upper 

 part and sides : those in the living spider probably form a more 

 or less regular pattern ; but the specimens that have come under 

 my notice were not sufficiently well preserved ifi. this respect to 

 enable me to trace the pattern satisfactorily. 



Two females in a dry state, and one in spirit, are in the Hope 

 Collection, at the Oxford University Museum. The British- 

 Museum Collection also contains several dry specimens ; all have 

 been received from New Holland : since examining them, I have 



