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yellow-brown. The femora of the third pair of legs are yellow with black patches at 

 each end, but those of the first, second, and fourth pairs black-brown all over. The 

 patellae black-brown, the tibise yellow on the basalhalf, black-brown on the anterior. 

 Metatarsus and tarsus i. and ii. yellow. Metatarsus iii. and iv. yellow, but tarsus 

 black-brown. Dark brown bristly hair on the dark portions of the legs, greyish-white on 

 the lighter. The palpi are similarly coloured, with light femoral and dark distal joint. 

 The upperside of the abdomen is chocolate-brown witli white hairs and bristles ; 

 embedded in this is a black longitudinal spear-head pattern, pointing anteriorly, about 

 the middle it broadens out and ends in a short shaft ; a yellow border envelopes the 

 pattern as far as the rear end ; the broadening out tends to form an indistinct cross. 

 Near the juncture of the cross-bar Vt'ith the middle streak are two large round 

 depressions on the lower side and two smaller nearer together on the upper. The 



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Araneus granti, nat. size. a. Ej-es. h. Epigyne. 



underside is in corrugated ridges of black and yellow, with white hair ; on the side- 

 slopes, which are brown, are perpendicular yellow streaks. 



The cephalothorax is one-fourth longer than broad, truncate in front, rounded at 

 the sides, with well-marked depressions separating the cephalic from the thoracic part. 

 Long, coarse, forward-pointing hair and bristles. The front median eyes are rather 

 more than their diameter apart and the same distance from the rear median, which are 

 one-fifth diameter smaller and only half of their diameter apart ; they are two and 

 a half times their diameter from the laterals, the row being slightly recurved viewed 

 from above. The lateral eyes are on a joint protuberance, about equal in size, smaller 

 than the rear median and half their diameter apart. The clypeus is about as wide 

 as the front median eyes. 



The mandibles are as long as the front of the cephalothorax (?. e. half its greatest 

 ■width), geniculate, slightly divergent anteriorly. The fangs are long, powerful, 

 and slightly curved : on the inner side of the falx-sheath are three teeth, the lower 

 being the largest ; and four on the outer, the last but one larger than the others. 



The lip is broader than long, rounded to an obtuse point anteriorly — half the length 

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