ARACHNIDAN FAUNA RAINBOW. 123 



Marginal band narrow, black. Eyes of a pearl-grey lustre with 

 black rings ; each is surrounded with a thick fringe of red scale- 

 like hairs ; those comprising the front series form a curved row, 

 the curvature directed forward ; of these the two central eyes 

 are much the largest ; the two comprising the second row are 

 exceedingly minute, and are placed midway between the lateral 

 eyes of the front row, and those of the third series ; the latter 

 are equal in size, or nearly so, to the lateral eyes of the front 

 row, and are separated from them by a distance of one and a half 

 millimeters. Legs moderately long, reddish-brown ; the anterior 

 pair are the longest and much the strongest ; each ambulatory 

 limb is clothed with yellowish hairs, and armed with long, strong, 

 black spines ; relative lengths, 1, 2, 4, 3. Palpi rather long, 

 slender, yellowish, clothed with long yellow hairs, and armed 

 with short, strong, black spines. Falces robust, moderately long, 

 strongly arched in front, divergent at apex, reddish-brown, with 

 a somewhat purple tinge, thickly clothed at base with rather long 

 yellowish hairs, and scantily so in front, and at outer margins 

 with short yellowish pubescence ; inner margins rather more 

 freely clothed with somewhat longer hairs ; the upper margin of 

 the furrow of each falx is armed with a row of four teeth, and 

 the lower margin with a row of two ; fangs long, strong, reddish- 

 brown. Maxillae long, club-shaped, moderately arched ; the surface 

 sparingly clothed with rather long hoary hairs, and the inner 

 margins at apex thickly so with long dark brown hairs. Labium 

 concolorous, long, conical, thickly clothed with long yellowish hairs. 

 Sternum elliptical, convex, pale-yellowish, thickly clothed with 

 long yellowish hairs. Abdomen oblong-ovate ; superior surface 

 thickly clothed with short, closely adpressed golden scale-like 

 hairs, and are furnished with a few long yellowish hairs ; com- 

 mencing at a distance of two millimetres from "anterior extremity, 

 and continuing towards spinnerets, there are two lateral sooty- 

 black bands, the margins of which are sinuous ; these Viands are 

 rounded off in front and pointed at posterior extremity ; sides 

 lightly grooved or furrowed, thickly clothed with short adpressed 

 golden scale-like hairs ; inferior surface pale yellow, thickly clothed 

 with short yellowish pubescence. Epigyne slightly elevated in 

 front, with two somewhat spherical lobes ; deeply grooved laterally 

 and in front. Spinnerets long, yellow-brown, thickly clothed 

 with long yellowish hairs. 



One specimen. 



Speaking of this capture Mr. Hedley says : " This example 

 was the only one seen by any of the party ; but no credit accrues 

 to me for collecting it, for the creature obligingly collected itself. 

 With an interest for biological research, and in a spirit of self- 

 sacrifice which other undescribed species would do well to copy, 

 she dropped straight into a collecting-tube. I was at the time 



