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a short sharp edge in front of the lateral eyes, not continuing to the central 

 eyes ; second joint of cheliceres ivitli six small, siibequal denticles, third not 

 longer than the fourth, with a little spine above and below ; first lower abdo' 

 minal segment very large, convex, centrally grooved. 



Sab. — South India, Western Bengal, and the Malay Peninsula. 



The cephalothorax is rather obtusely rounded, with the perpendicular 

 front side perfectly smooth ; the ocular tubercle is also smooth and very 

 high, the circumference round each black central eye being depressed. From 

 the ocular tubercle passes in a curve a rounded edge below the central eye, 

 and after a short distance from this one joins a thin, but sharp and finely 

 serrated, ridge which continues to the lateral eyes ; the latter are pale 

 amber yellow. The upper side of the cephalic thorax is flattened, indis- 

 tinctly granularly rugose, with a rather small central groove. The thoracic 

 portion is very finely granular and most minutely punctated, with the cen- 

 tral depressions distinct, but the lateral ones ill-defined. The abdomen is 

 one sixth broader than the thorax, very finely granular, with a fine central 

 carina, scarcely traceable on the fourth and fifth segments ; all have a poste- 

 rior submarginal row of very minute granules ; the last three narrow segments 

 are smooth. The first segment on the lower side is very large, smooth, 

 centrally grooved, with the posterior edge somewhat produced and broadly 

 truncate. All the other segments are finely rugose ; the second and third 

 being very narrow. 



All the joints of the cheliceres are internally distinctly pilose. 

 The first joint is sparingl}" punctated ; on the median anterior part 

 it is transversely rugose, terminating with a sigmoid, pointed process. 

 The second joint has an anterior rounded shovel-like edge provided with six 

 subequal denticles, of which the two outermost are more distant from the 

 other four than these among themselves ; on the lower edge there are two 

 unequal denticles. The third joint is short, with a small denticle at the 

 inner upper end and a larger one on the middle of the lower inner edge. 

 Both the second and third joints are densely punctated above and outward- 

 ly, and granular below ; the following are mostly smooth. The fourth joint 

 is slightly thicker than the third, with a long, pointed, anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly serrated process ; it has no spine on the lower side. The fifth joint is 

 again somewhat more inflated with a short, broad, depressed process, sharply 

 serrated on both sides ; on the front margin of the lower side there is a minute 

 denticle. The sixth joint is slender, considerably longer than the process op- 

 posite to it ; the upper and lower inner edges are, as usually, finely serrated, 

 and near the tip there is on the upper edge a conspicuously enlarged 

 tubercle. 



T^he tarsi on one of the first pair of feet are shorter than the precedino- 

 metatarsus. The femoral joints of the other feet are compressed, granular 

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