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distant about one and a third times their diameter apart, the median being the 

 same distance away from the rear-median. These are separated from one another by 

 the same distance, and are two and a half times their diameter from the laterals. 

 The width of the clypeus is rather less than the breadth of the median eye square. 



The mandibles are conical, geniculate at the base, and thickly covered with long, 

 coarse, upstanding bristles, with a fringe on both inner and outer margins of the 

 falx-sheath. There are four long pointed teeth on the inner margin, and the same 

 number, rather smaller, on the outer, with two rows of quite small teeth between the 

 two. The fangs are long and moderately curved. 



The lip is about one and a half times as long as broad, square in front and thickly 

 covered with stout upstanding bristles on the lower one-third. It is more than one- 

 half the length of the maxillse, which are upright, rounded anteriorly, convex on 

 the outer side, straight on the inner ; the coxal portion of the palpi is particularly 

 broad and stout. 



The sternum is nearly as broad as long, and widest between the second and third 

 coxae. In front it narrows to the breadth of the lip and is hollowed to receive the first 

 and second pairs of coxae ; at the posterior end it is about twice that width, and truncate, 

 having a margin between itself and the third and fourth pairs of coxae, the latter pair 

 contiguous. It is thickly .covered with short, coarse, recumbent bristles, which are 

 longer and more upstanding at the margins of the rear half. 



The front-pair of legs are longer and stouter than the others. On the inner side of 

 the femur about the middle are two short stout spines, one at each corner of a square 

 dilatation. There are also three single and two pairs of very short spines, almost 

 points only, on the underside. The metatarsus of the front two pairs is flattened and 

 their tarsal joints are much thinner and quite short. On the underside of tibia i. are 

 five pairs of stout spines, and under tibia ii. one pair of short, three pairs of long, and 

 again one pair of short spines. The two rear pairs are without spines. 



All the legs are thickly covered with coarse recumbent bristles and a few upstanding, 

 also here and there a few club-shaped. 



The tarsal claws have one long pectination about the middle and three or four short 

 between it and the base. The femoral joint of the palpi is thin, curved on the inner 

 side and dilated anteriorly. The patellar joint as long as the tibial, the distal joint 

 short and flattened, and the claw with one long pectination only. 



The abdomen is ovate, truncate in front, widest posteriorly, where it is obtusely 

 rounded. On the upperside at the posterior end are two bare prominences, and in two 

 long lines five pairs of bare spots. There are four lines of spots, smaller but more in 

 number on the underside, which is thickly covered with short, stout, bristly, recumbent 

 hairs, with some longer upstanding, and at the posterior end a few club-shaped bristles. 



The spinnerets are short and conical, lying in a circular nest and thickly covered 

 with hair. 



