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shorter than others. The falces are a little longer than the thorax, the 

 two segments being strongly inflated, thickly set with moderately long 

 stiff hairs ; and two dark brown longitudinal stripes on the npper side of 

 each are distinct. Their claws are attenuated, slightly incurved ; the 

 upper is finely serrated inside, the lower moveable joint being the strong - 

 gerone ; they are unequal, the left pair of the falces being distinctly longer 

 than the right one, and each of them has, above near the claws, one long 

 horny appendage, something of the form of a plume. The palpi are 

 much longer than the entire body from the tip of the falces to the anus, 

 they are very stout; the last or terminal joint is the shortest, inflated 

 at the end, internally supplied with a brownish lamina, which has on 

 the inner side a circular rather prominent field, and next to it on the 

 outer side are two small tubercles, one below the other. 



The three segments forming the thorax are distinctly separated and 

 become gradually smaller towards the abdomen ; the last pair of feet is 

 by far the longest, then come the third and the first which are nearly 

 of the same size, each of them being about equal to the length of the 

 whole body. The first pair is without claws, the other pairs each 

 possess two slender claws. All the feet are covered with numerous 

 long and very thin hairs, unequal in size ; on the first pair and on the 

 palpi some of them are particularly elongated. 



The abdomen is eliptical, composed of 9 segments, thickly covered 

 with short hairs, equally narrow in front and behind, where it is 

 slightly raised ; in fresh specimens it is somewhat inflated, but in 

 dried ones it becomes more flattened ; the ventral side, at the beginning 

 of which the stigmata and the genital opening are situated, has central- 

 ly a deep longitudinal groove; the anus is terminal, situated in an 

 almost perpendicular slit ; the abdomen is, as stated before, blackish 

 grey above, yellowish on the sides and below. 



$ . The male is perfectly similar to the female in form and coloura- 

 tion, but very much smaller ; it has the left falces also a little longer 

 than the right ones, and both with similar plume-like appendages ; the 

 palpi appear to be in proportion a little longer than they are in the 

 female, (though not so well expressed in the figure, the body having 

 been made a little too long) ; the penultimate segment is dark brown, 

 the last one has at the end a white skin, slightly emarginated and 

 folded at the terminal edge. 



