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and behind this is a yellow network pattern on a brown 

 ground. The posterior portion is all dark-grey; the epigyne, 

 pulmonary plates, and spinnerets dark-brown. The eephalo- 

 thorax, straight and broad in front and rounded at the side, is 

 flat over the thoracic part, the cephalic part being slightly 

 raised up therefrom. The rear row of eyes is straight, the 

 front row slightly recurved. The front median eyes are 

 slightly larger than the rear median ; those of each pair, and 

 the pairs themselves, are the same distance apart, slightly 

 more than the diameter of the larger. The side eyes, two- 

 thirds the diameter of their respective median, are also 

 slightly farther apart than the diameter of the larger, and lie 

 on a common tubercle. The whole breadth of the front 

 median pair separates them from their laterals, and the rear 

 median are one-fifth more from the rear lateral. The clypeus 

 is as broad as the distance between the front median eyes. 



The mandibles are short, broad, and slightly divergent. 

 The lip is broadest at the base, narrowing anteriorly. It is 

 more than half the length of the maxillae, and the upper 

 portion projects forward over the base. The maxillae are 

 upright, rather club-shaped : the inner margin fits round the 

 lip, and narrows posteriorly almost to a point. The anterior 

 portion of these, also, is projected forward in a boss- 

 like prominence. The sternum is shield-shaped, straight in 

 front, narrowing to a point at the posterior end, where it 

 passes between the rear pair of coxse. There is a rather 

 large prominence, and in front of the second and third pairs 

 of coxae are similar but smaller prominences. The whole of 

 the anterior portion is raised up in a broad ridge, about equal 

 in height to these. The legs are long and strong, with hair in 

 bunches, as described above. The tibial joint of the palpi 

 is the same length as the patellar joint. The abdomen is 

 oblong, straight in front and at the sides, but rounded at the 

 corners and rear end. The epigyne is of the normal type of 

 the genus, but the middle of the upper lip expands into a 

 rather broad septum. 



This species is near N. nigritarsis of L. Koch, but has no 

 separate pronounced hump on the front of the sternum behind 

 the lip, the whole front area being raised up. The epigyne 

 does not quite agree with that drawn by L. Koch, and the 

 legs are not so long in proportion to the body. 



The measurements in millimetres are as follow : — 



Ceph. ... 



Abd 



Mand 



Long. 



Broad. 



14J 



5J in front 





8 behind 



171 



9J 



4 



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