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The sternum dark yellow-brown with white hairs. 
The abdomen on the upper side has a broad median area from 
base to spinnerets of coarse white hair interspersed with orange 
and upstanding brown bristles; on each side of this is a longi- 
tudinal stripe of black hair reaching the whole length. ‘The 
sides and under side are yellowish white. The spinnerets and 
epigyne are dingy yellow-brown, with bright yellow inside the 
chitinous ring of the latter. 
The legs are pale yellow with white hair, brown spines, and 
dark grey claw-tufts. The palpi are thickly covered with long 
white upstanding hair. 
The cephalothorax is nearly 13 times as long as it is broad, 
straight in front, rounded at the rear, slightly narrowing from 
about the middle to the front row of eyes. The cephalic ‘part 1s 
flat above, sloping slightly to the sides, as does also the thoracic 
part, which is rather more convex, but has a broad shallow 
transverse depression at its anterior end, 
The eye-space is broader than long, the rear row being narrower 
by almost one-fourth than the cephalothorax at that point. The 
small eyes of the second row are rather nearer to those of the 
rear row than to the front laterals, and lie in a line between their 
centres. 
The front row is slightly recurved, the median eyes being close 
together; the laterals, half their diameter, are clearly separated 
from them and lie rather farther back. The clypeus is half the 
breadth of the front median eyes. 
The mandibles are short, flat and rather divergent, with 
moderately long tapering fangs. There is one tooth, strong and 
conical, on the inner margin of the falx-sheath, and two smaller 
near together on the outer. 
The maxille are upright, rounded anteriorly and at the outer 
margin. 
The lip, longer than broad, is more than half the length of the 
maxilla, It curves inwards from near the front, but is nearly 
straight at the end. ‘The front pair of coxe almost meet at their 
bases. and with their trochanters cover the lower part of the lip 
and maxille. 
The sternum narrows to a point between the front pair of coxe, 
broadens to its greatest width above coxe iii., and ends in front of 
the fourth pair, which are close together. 
The front two pairs of cox are parallel, pointing forwards at 
an angle of 45 degrees from the median line, the rear two pairs 
similarly pointing backwards at right angles to the front pairs, 
the 2nd and 3rd being slightly separated. The rear cox are 
longer than the others, which are all about the same length. 
The front pair of legs are stouter than the others, the femur 
being flat and club- shaped. The patella and tibia are longer 
than the metatarsus and tarsus in all legs, the lattex joint shorter 
than the metatarsus. 
On the under side of tibia i. and ii. are three pairs of short 
