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the mesial segment. Anterior spinners short and stoutish, about 
their own diameter apart. 3 
Chelicere with 6 teeth in the inner row below. 
Pedipalps—Femur with several setiform spines above. Patella 
with an apical inner spine above. Tibia with an apical spine and 
3 slender, spiniform setze on the distal half of the inner surface, the 
under surface with numerous, long, fine sete, the outer surface with 
a single distal spine. Tarsus not spined. Bulb subspherical, the 
process curved, almost as long as the bulb, somewhat flattened and 
rather thick in the proximal three-fourths of its length but very fine 
and slender distally and finely pointed. 
Legs.—Metatarsus I almost straight, shghtly but noticeably 
swollen on the infero-internal side at the end of the basal fourth, 
the under side with 3 spines along the outer but none along the 
inner edge, the inner surface with 1 mesial spine; II with 1 inner 
and 2 outer apical, 2 mesial and 2 basal spines below, besides 
1-2 spines on the inner surface; III and IV numerously spined. 
Tibia I robust, shghtly incrassated towards the apex below, and 
provided at the inner inferior edge with a long, cylindrical, tubercular 
spur, which curves slightly outwards and is tipped with a stout, 
slightly curved spine, this spine being shorter than the tubercle ; 
under surface also with 3 outer and 2 inner spines, inner surface with 
2 spines and outer surface with 1 spine; II with 3 apical, 1 mesial 
and 2 basal spines below, and 2 spines on the inner surface ; III with 
3 apical, 2 mesial and 2 basal spines below, also 2 on the outer, 2 on 
the dorsal and 2 on the inner surfaces; IV with 3 pairs of spines 
below, also 2 spines on the inner and 2 on the outer surfaces. 
Patellaee with 1-2 internal spines, III also with 2 spines on the outer 
surface. Femora spined above. All the tarsi scopulate below, the 
scopule less dense than in Hermacha, entire in I-III but divided in 
IV by a band of sete, this band comparatively narrow. Metatar- 
sus I scopulate on both sides below in the distal half or more, the 
scopula almost obsolete along the middle line below, II thinly scopu- 
late in the distal third, III and IV not scopulate. 
Measurements.—Total length 94; length of carapace 44, width 3:1. 
Gun. PIONOTHELE nov. 
Closely allied to Hermacha Sim., but differing in having the ocular 
area more than twice as wide as long and close to the anterior 
margin of the carapace. In the ¢ the tarsus of the first pair of legs 
is somewhat swollen in the middle, appearing convex lengthways 
below and more attenuated distally, when seen from the side, while 
