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has the occipital region, which is furnished with 

 a few hairs, rather elevated and rounded, and the 

 ocular area a little prominent, very much resembl- 

 ing in these respects Neriene atra, Bl. It is of a 

 deep shining black-brown colour ; and the clypeus 

 is rather sharply impressed immediately below the 

 eyes, but full, prominent, and rounded, at its lower 

 part, its height exceedinghalf thatof the facial space. 

 The eyes are small, dark-coloured, and in the usual 

 four pairs, or two transverse lines ; they are rather 

 obscure, and their exact relative position is difficult 

 to be ascertained with certainty — those of the hind 

 central pair appeared to be nearer to each other than 

 each is to the hind lateral on its side ; those of the 

 fore central pair are near together, but not quite 

 contiguous. The legs are short, and do not differ 

 greatly in length, their relative length being 1, 4, 

 2, 3 ; they are slender, but the several joints 

 are of tolerably uniform size: their colour is 

 yellowish red brown, and they are furnished with 

 hairs, and a few slender erect bristles. The palpi 

 are short, and similar in colour to the legs; the 

 cubital and radial joints are very short, and very 

 nearly of equal length : tho latter is the strongest, 

 and does not appear to be furnished with any 

 very marked projection or apophysis at its fore 

 extremity, though the upper and outer sides of that 

 part are slightly emarginate, leaving a small, pro- 

 minent, obtuse point at the middle of the fore 

 extremity ; the digital joint is large and of a regular 

 oval form ; the palpal organs are compact and not 

 very complex ; a strong dark-brown spiny process 

 curves closely round their inner margin from the 

 outer side of their base to the fore part of their 

 inner side, where it is met by the point of a slender 

 filiform black spine, which issues from near their 

 fore part on the outer side and runs over them, in 

 close contact, in a directly transverse direction. 

 The falces are moderately long, slender, and of a 

 dark-brown colour ; the inner surface towards the 

 extremity is armed with a few fine teeth. The 

 maxilla and labium are of normal form, and similar 

 in colour to the falces. The sternum, is similar in 

 colour to the cephalothorax, very convex, and fur- 

 nished with some coarse prominent hairs. The 

 abdomen is rather large and tolerably convex above ; 

 it does not project much over the base of the 



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