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some Philodromi, so much so, that they could even easily be mistaken 

 one for the other ; they are rather sluggish in their habits, and defend 

 themselves with the feet and falces, when disturbed in their quiet 

 position ; they only spin a few threads but no net. 



Scytodes propinqua, Stoi. Pi. XIX., Fig. 4. 



9 The cephalothorax is regularly oval, tumid, highest near the 

 posterior end, higher and equal to, or usually a little longer and wider 

 than, the abdomen, except in old female specimens in which the 

 abdomen becomes slightly larger than the thorax. The general colour is 

 brownish yellow, with two longitudinal dark brown lines extending 

 from each lateral pair of eyes backwards, these undulating lines being 

 more distinct than those at the middle, and at the sides of the 

 thorax which are generally irregularly streaked or marbled with brown. 

 Younger specimens have a very fine, but distinct, central, longitudinal 

 dark line, and two or three similar continuous, curved lines near and 

 parallel to the posterior end and to the sides of the thorax. 



The central pair of eyes is on a broad prominence like a rostrum, 

 and the laterals are also placed on oblique prominences which are 

 usually black. 



The falces are short and stout, cylindrical, yellowish, with rudimen- 

 tary brownish claws. 



The lip is elongated, obtusely pointed at the end ; the maxillae, 

 narrow, converging, and little shorter than the falces ; they are not 

 particularly thickened at the base whei'e the palpi are inserted, the 

 latter being thin and, like the former organs, yellowish with a few 

 black hairs near their tips. 



The sternum is elongated, oval, flat with minute prominences op- 

 posite each coxa, all of which are thickened. The feet are of consider- 

 able length and slender, they are yellowish, like the sternum : the 

 femora each have, below, two longitudinal dark lines, and the tarsi 

 possess two segments, the last being the shorter, terminating with two 

 black thin claws. Young specimens have the joints of the various 

 segments of the feet brown. 



The abdomen is roundish oval, quite separated from the thorax and 

 not covering its base, very obtusely pointed behind; it is yellowish 

 white., like the rest of the body thickly covered with hairs, in the 



