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lateral eyes minute, seated obliquely on tubercles and con- 

 tiguous to each other. Legs pale yellow, clothed with yellowish 

 pubescence, and armed with long black spines ; relative lengths : 

 1, 2, 4, 3. Palpi pale yellow, clothed with yellowish pubescence 

 and long black bristles ; copulatory organs dark brown, compli- 

 cated in structure. Falces pale yellow, divergent, clothed with 

 yellowish pubescence ; fangs glossy, dark brown at base, wine- 

 red at points. Maxilla? glossy, pale yellow, arched, inclining 

 inwards, fringed with long, coarse hairs at sides and ultimate 

 extremities. Labiuni somewhat darker, arched, broader than 

 long, furnished with a few moderately long yellowish hairs. 

 Sternum cordate, moderately convex, pale yellowish at its centre, 

 darker laterally, clothed with yellowish pubescence. Abdomen 

 ovate, overhanging base of cephalotharax, pale yellowish, with 

 dark brown leaf-like pattern down the centre, and clothed with 

 long, coarse, yellowish hairs ; sides yellowish, with dark brown 

 markings, and long, coarse yellow hairs ; inferior surface pale 

 yellow, with dark brown median patch, broader in front than 

 behind, narrowest at the centre. Spinnerets long, prominent. 



One specimen. 



(Plate iii., figs. 3, 3a, 36, 3c.) 



? . Cephalothorax, 5mm. long, 3mm. broad ; abdomen, 9mm. 

 long, G.^mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax convex, hairy, yellowish, with median and lateral 

 dark brown longitudinal bars. Caput moderately high, truncated 

 in front, rounded on the sides and upper part, normal grooves 

 distinct, thickly clothed with coarse hoary hairs. Clypeus broad, 

 strongly arched, clothed with long, coarse hoary hairs ; a deep 

 longitudinal cleft, situated at junction of cephalic and thoracic 

 segments from whence radiate the lateral grooves. Marginal band 

 broad, fringed with pale yellowish pubescence. Eyes of an opaline 

 tint with black rings ; the four central eyes are seated upon a 

 somewhat quadrangular eminence, and form a trapezium ; of 

 these, the two forming the front row are the largest of the group, 

 and are separated from each other by a space equal to once their 

 individual diameter ; the second row are somewhat smaller than 

 those of the first, and are separated from the latter by rather 

 more than one diameter of an eye of the second row, and from 

 each other by a space equal to about two-thirds of u diameter ; 

 lateral eyes seated on small tubercles and contiguous to each other. 

 Legs long and strong, pale yellow with dark brown annulations 

 at ultimate extremities of joints ; in addition to the annulations 

 referred to, the femurs of the first and second pairs of legs have 

 each a long, dark brown patch on the outer surface ; limbs 

 clothed with short yellowish pubescence, and armed with numerous 



