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the same side as the two hind centrals are from each other, and but 

 very little in advance of their straight line. 



Legs long and slender, a little paler in colour than the cephalothorax, 

 and furnished with hairs, and on the femoral, genual, and tibial points 

 are some conspicuous dark spines : relative length 1, 2, 4, 3 ; those of 

 the second pair are perceptibly longer than those of the fourth, and 

 those of the third pair are very much the shortest. 



Palpi short ; humeral, cubital, and nadial joints slight, the latter is a 

 little longer and stronger than the cubital ; each of these two has a 

 long, nearly erect, black bristle on its upperside ; digital joint long, 

 oval, longer than the radial and cubital joints together, and has a 

 longish, prominent, curved, rather obtuse-pointed, semitransparent, 

 corneous, spine-like process rising from near its base. Palpal organs 

 large, prominent, and directed outwards ; they consist of a somewhat 

 globular corneous lobe with a projecting portion at their extremity ; 

 and connected with this portion are one or two short black spines ; 

 the colour of the palpi is yellow, the digital joints and palpal organs 

 being tinged with a deeper hue. 



Falces rather long, strong, a little prominent near their base in front, 

 slightly divergent, and with a short, tooth-like, rather obtuse-pointed, 

 somewhat hooked spine, directed downwards, near their middle, in 

 front ; this spine is characteristic of the species, but seems to belong 

 only to the adult male ; the falces have also a few teeth on the inner 

 surface near their extremities ; and their colour is yellow tinged with 

 a deeper hue. 



Maxilla rather long, a little divergent, and enlarged at their extre- 

 mities. 



Labium about half the length of the maxillae, and rounded at the 

 apex. 

 , Sternum heart-shaped, and yellowish in colour, the maxillae and labium 

 being tinged with yellow-brown. 



Abdomen long oval, somewhat cylindrical, obtuse at each extremity, 

 but the hinder one falls abruptly from the upper edge to the spinners j 

 its colour is pale brownish yellow, the sides and underpart rather 

 closely spotted with shining silvery spots and blotches ; on either side 

 of the medial line of the upper part are some obscure black spots ar- 

 ranged longitudinally ; one of these on either side is situated about 

 one-third of the distance from the fore margin, the rest are equally dis- 

 poned on the posterior third part : there is also a similar obscure spot 

 on each side of the abdomen near its hinder extremity : the abdomen 

 in different examples differs in length relatively to the cephalothorax, 

 but seems, as a rule, to exceed it in absolute length. 



The female, as in others of this genus, has tlie legs shorter tl\an 

 the male, and less conspicuous in their armature ; the falces also 



