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is darker reddish brown. Lip and maxillae bright red ; sternum 

 dark brown. The legs and palpi yellowish brown above, darker 

 and redder on tarsi and metatarsi. The coxae of all legs, and the 

 underside of the femur and trochanter of 1st and 2nd pairs are a 

 rich chocolate-brown. Scopulae a dirty dark brown. Abdomen 

 above is a rather pale reddish brown, yellower underneath ; spin- 

 nerets darker. 



The cephaloihorax is a tenth part longer than broad, tapering at 

 front and rear to little more than half its greatest breadth. 

 Thoracic fovea procurved. 



Text-fig. 28. 



Selenoeosmia vulpina. a. Palpal bulb from above ; b, ditto from beneath, 

 c. Whole of palp. d. Eyes. e. Profile. 



The eye-space is about twice as wide as long, a good deal 

 raised, the prominence extending 1^ times the diameter of the 

 front middle eyes beyond them, to over the margin of the clypeus. 



The front row of eyes is rather procurved; the middle pair being 

 three-fourths of their diameter apart. The oval side-eyes obliquely- 

 set, once and a half the diameter of middle and once and a half 

 their diameter away from middle. (A line across the top of the 

 middle eyes passes quite clear of the laterals, across the bottom 



