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brown, the darkest of all at the anterior end. Underneath yellow-brown, with white 

 hair in patches for two-thirds of the length from the base, then a brown ring, a 

 silvery-white ring, and a brown ring at the anterior end. The patellae dark brown ; 

 the tibise yellow-brown with faint darker rings, darkest at the anterior end. Metatarsi 

 and tarsi pale yellow-brown with similar-coloured bristly hair, brown spines, grey claw- 

 tufts and calamistrum (on metatarsus iv.). The palpi are pale yellow-brown with dai'k 

 brown patches at the anterior end of the femur, patella, and tibia ; spatulate white hair 

 underneath the femoral joint, a white patch in the middle of the tibial and at the 

 base of the tarsal joints ; spines brown. 



The abdomen on the upperside is pale yellow-brown in the median streak with 

 brown longitudinal lines each side from the base for a fourth of the length, continued in 

 patches to about midway, from whence to the spinnerets are alternate transverse bands 

 of white and dark brown hair ending in dark brown. At each side are three wide 

 sloping streaks of brown, reaching as far as a wavy longitudinal line of white hair 

 which runs the whole length. On the underside there is a median, wedge-shaped, 

 white hair-patch from the base to the genital line. Below this another similar, and 

 thence to the spinnerets a narrower white hair-streak. Each side of this olive-brown. 



The cephalothorax is one and a half times as long as broad, narrowing towards the 

 front both from its greatest breadth and from the lower corners of the clypeus, slightly 

 curved at the sides. The cephalic part is prominently raised up above the slightly 

 convex thoracic, from which it is separated by side depressions, the eye-space lying 

 on the highest point of the convexity. There is a deep, oval, longitudinal fovea just 

 above the rear slope. 



The rear row of eyes is slightly recurved, the median pair rather more than their 

 diameter apart and rather more again from the laterals. All the eyes of both rear and 

 front rows are equal in diameter. The front median pair are slightly less than their 

 diameter apart, half that distance from their laterals, and twice the former distance 

 from the rear median. The clypeus proper is three times as wide as the diameter of 

 the eye, with an additional streak of grey muscular tissue, making the total width 

 about the length of the median quadrilateral. The clypeus is recedent from the lower 

 edge of the front eyes, but curves out again to the front margin. 



The mandibles are only slightly geniculate at the base, as long as the front of the 

 cephalothorax, and furnished with long bristles on the inner margins. The fangs are 

 short, stout at the base, and well curved. There are three teeth on the inner margin of 

 the falx-sheath, four on the outer. 



The lip is straight with a slight hollow in front, nearly straight at the sides, longer 

 than broad, and more than half the length of the maxillag. These ai-e convex, rounded 

 anteriorly and on the upper half of the outer side, thence they curve inwards to the 

 insertion of the palpi at the base. Their troncature is long and sloping, and projects at 

 the lower end over the lip, whence the maxillse curve round it. 



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