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argest male, wliich measures about 29 mm., with the carapace 

 almost 18 wide, has the femora of the 1st leg very short, only as 

 long, in fact, as the tibia of the 2nd. 



Taeantula Pallasii (Blanch.) *. (Pi. XL. figs. 3, 3 a.) 



Phrynus Pallasii, Blanch. Organisation du Regne An., Arachnides, 

 pt. XV. p. 170, pi. 10, &c. 



Colour. Carapace and chelae chestnut-brown ; legs and abdo- 

 men paler, the latter paler than the legs and without distinct 

 pattern ; spots on femora and carapace very indistinct. 



Granulation of the upper surface of the trunk rather coarse. 



Carapace with its frontal region gradually and gently sloped 

 downwards, nowhere vertical ; distance between the lateral eyes 

 about half the median length of the carapace, the tubercles 

 equidistant from the anterior and from the lateral edge, which 

 distance is almost half the distance between the eyes. The 

 median tubercle scarcely wider than long, distance between it 

 and the anterior border a little greater than its longitudinal 

 diameter ; the frontal border distinctly emarginate, coarsely 

 dentate at the sides ; the teeth very slightly upcurled. 



3£andihles almost smooth above ; external apical tubercle large. 



Clielod coarsely granular; tihia broad ; \\iq femur above about 

 one-third greater than the distance between the eyes ; spines 

 short, the longest on the femur less than the height of the 

 segment, and a trifle more than half the distance between the 

 lateral eyes ; the longest on the tibia {i. e. the third, which is 

 much longer than the second) less than the width of the segment 

 and about equal to three quarters of the distance between the eyes. 

 The spine- armature like that of harhndensis, except that the 

 2nd spine on the upper edge of the tibia is shorter as compared 

 with the 3rd, and there is a minute spinule at the base of the 6th. 

 Tarsus smooth externally, a little longer than the distance 

 between the eyes, armed below with one median long spine, the 

 other two being represented merely by small spinules. 



Legs : femur of 1st longer than the width of the carapace by 

 about one-third of its length; femur of the 2nd noticeably 

 greater than the width of the carapace, about as long as that of 



* I had described this species as new before I had an opportunity of ex- 

 amining Blanchard's paper. I there discovered that his specimen came from 

 Martinique, whence the British Museum also has received exam^^les. 



