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greater tlian the height of this segment and almost equal to the 

 distance between the lateral ocular tubercles. 



Legs very long : femur of the 1st twice and a half the width 

 of the carapace; that of the 2nd longer than the width of 

 the carapace by almost one-third of its length, considerably 

 shorter than the femur of the 3rd, and scarcely longer than that 

 of the 4th ; tibia of the 2nd distinctly longer than the femur, 

 that of the 3rd and 4th also very distinctly longer than the 

 femora; in the 4th leg the 2nd and 3rd tibial segments are 

 together longer than the protarsus, and two-thirds the length of 

 the first tibial ; the second tibial is about three-quarters the 

 length of the third, and is equal to the distance between the 

 lateral eyes. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 25 ; median length 

 of carapace 9, width 13"5, distance between lateral eyes 4'5. 

 Chela : height of femur 2*5, length 8'5, length of longest spine 

 3'5 ; width of tibia 3, length 11, length of longest spine 4-8 ; 

 length of tarsus 5*5, of digit 5'2. Legs : femur of 1st 34, of 

 2nd 22, of 3rd 25, of 4th 21 ; tibia of 2nd 25, of Brd 28, of 4th 

 27. 



Locality. Haiti ; a single example. 



Besembling the preceding in having the eyes rather close 

 together and in not being very coarsely granular, but easily 

 recognizable by the strongly sloped frontal region of the cara- 

 pace, the finer denticulation of its anterior border, longer chelae 

 and spines, much longer legs, &c. 



Since describing the above dried example, I have come across 

 two more specimens of the species, an adult female and a young, 

 both preserved in alcohol, and both ticketed Brazil. The young 

 example, a male, measures only 15 mm. long, and has the cara- 

 pace only 8 mm, wide. It is paler in colour than the adults, 

 and has the femora of the legs prettily mottled with yellow. 



The adult female gives the following measurements : — Total 

 length 32-5 ; carapace, median length 10*3, width 15, distance 

 between eyes 5. Chela : length of femur 9, of tibia 12, of 

 tarsus 7, of digit 6. Legs : femur of 1st 40, of 2nd 24*5, of 3rd 

 26'5, of 4th 23 ; the rest of the leg measurements are relatively 

 the same as those of the type, which is a male. 



Taeantula latifeons, sp. n. (PI. XL. fig. 6.) 



Colour f usco-castaneous ; legs and abdomen lighter than the 



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