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The cephalic part is marked off clearly by broad depressions, and ends at a procurved 

 fovea between the second and third pairs of legs. There are three other pairs of 

 radial depressions running therefrom which reach the margin between each pair of legs. 



The eyes are on a raised tubercle twice as broad as it is long. The rear row is 

 straight along the lower edges, the front row slightly procurved. The front median 

 pair are one-half of their diameter apart — the side eyes being, if anything, slightly 

 longer than the median, but only a little more than half as wide, on tubercles, and 

 half their width away from the median. The rear side eyes not quite as long as 

 those of the front row, one-third of their length away. The medians ovate with 

 the small end pointing backwards are about three-fourths as long as the former 

 and two-thirds of their length, away. The clypeus is once and a half as broad as 

 the front median eyes. 



The mandibles are long and powerful, stretching forward more than half of their 

 total length. The fangs, stout at the base and slightly curved, are three-fourths the 

 total length of the falx. On the inner margin of the falx-sheath are nine large teeth 

 with one smaller between the seventh and eighth. The first is not quite so long as 

 the others. The outer margin is covered with a thick bushy fringe, but has no teeth. 

 The lip is once and a half times broader than long, cup-shaped, and hollowed in front. 

 The maxillae are convex, twice as long as broad, the base curving round the lip ends in 

 a prolongation at the lower outer corner and a somewhat similar apophysis at the upper 

 inner corner. The lip in front and the maxillse on their lower area are thickly covered 

 with the low club-shaped spines. There is a stridulating organ of long tapering setae 

 on circular roots near the inner edge of the maxillae, and short upright fine bristles on 

 the lower corner of the outer side of the mandibles. The sternum is one-fifth longer 

 than broad, shghtly convex, straight in front, with a hollow between it and the lip, in 

 which is a pair of long, narrow, lunate sigilla. It is widest two-thirds of its length 

 from the front and rounded at the rear, but ends in a slight angular point above the 

 contiguous rear coxae ; the posterior end and sides are covered with short curved 

 bristles, the median area with recumbent flat hairs. The inferior sigilla are large, 

 lying midway between the margin and the median line. 



The legs are moderately long and stout, about equal in thickness, the fourth pair 

 longest. There are thick scopulae on the tarsus and metatarsus of the first, second, 

 and third pairs. On the fourth this only reaches two-thirds of the way along the 

 metatarsus. The two tarsal claws are sunken in the claw-tufts, and I am unable to 

 see any on tarsus 4. There is a pair of short stout spines at the anterior end of 

 each metatarsus on the underside. 



The palpi are scopulated on the distal segment only. 



The abdomen is oval and nearly as thick as it is broad. The hair is smooth and 

 recumbent, with scattered upstanding bristles on the basal area. The superior 

 spinnerets are long and tapering. The second and third joints of equal length, shorter 



