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in front and blackened at the anterior margin, at least laterally. 

 Chelicera brown or brownish-yellow, black at apex. Abdomen 

 pallid, or the upper surface more or less suffused with dark purplish, 

 the ventral surface with a pair of purplish patches posteriorly and 

 sometimes one before the vulva. Legs almost uniformly pale 

 yellowish, the anterior tarsi often darker than the other segments, 

 which are without infuscated marks. Coxae and sternum pale 

 yellowish, the latter sometimes partly purplish ; labium mostly 

 infuscated at base, pale yellowish at apex. 



Carapace subequal to or almost as long as the tibia and metatarsus 

 of first leg, narrowed in front, its width just behind the ocular area 

 about ^ that of the tibia and subequal to that of the metatarsus of 

 first leg. Median eyes in close contact, their distance from the 

 posterior laterals generally less than (sometimes subequal to) their 

 united width. 



Legs rather short, stout, especially the fourth femur and first 

 tibia, the former very distinctly thicker than the first femur, its 

 dorsal length being only 2^ times its greatest thickness, anterior 

 tibia much stouter than the second pair and somewhat fusiform, its 

 width being subequal to the space between the posterior pair of 

 lateral eyes. Short hairs on the dorsal surface and upper part of 

 lateral surface of patellae and tibiae of the 3 anterior pairs peculiar, 

 being very numerous, curved, and suddenly swollen at the base, the 

 long hairs on the segments normal, the naked strips on the dorsal 

 surface narrower than usual, those on the patellae being narrower 

 than the setose strip between them. Metatarsus I. much shorter 

 than the tibia, I. and II. with a single series of 7-8 (rarely 9) spines 

 on each side, rarely with an additional superior spine on one of the 

 legs ; III. mostly with 2 anterior and 2 posterior rows of 1-3 spines 

 each ; IV. with 5 (sometimes only 4) stout spines below, including 

 an apical pair, the apical tuft composed of 5-7 setae. Tibice I. and 

 II. with 5-10 spines in the lower rows (the inner row of second leg 

 composed of only 3-4 spines), the upper row on each of 3-4 spines 

 in I. and 0-3 in II., intermediate spines absent ; III. with an infero- 

 posterior row of 3-4 spines and occasionally with a posterior spine 

 in addition, but without anterior spines; IV. with 0-2 inferior spines. 

 Patellce unspined. Femur I. with an internal and sometimes also a 

 dorsal apical spine ; II. unspined or with 1 internal and 1-2 dorsal 

 spines ; III. and IV. unspined. 



Chelicera with 3 tiny teeth on superior border and a very minute, 

 sometimes scarcely distinguishable, apical denticle on inferior border 

 of inner margin. 



Length of largest ? 9f , of carapace 4 mm. 



