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somewhat depressed in the middle ; the entire surface of the cephalo- 

 thorax is uniformly covered with short depressed silvery white hairs. 

 Each pair of eyes is situated on a small, but distinct brownish prominence; 

 those of the posterior middle pair are placed somewhat more distant than 

 those of the anterior, and all of them are pretty nearly equal in size ; 

 the anterior laterals are very small, situated almost wholely on the 

 under-side of the small tubercles, which bear laterally the hinder pair of 

 the lateral eyes. 



The falces are subcylindrical, brown, with short claws and very minute 

 scattered hairs ; when in a vertical position they project a trifle beyond 

 the maxillae, just preventing them from becoming visible in a front view. 

 The lip is short, semicircular, with a very small protuberance in the 

 centre of the internal front side. The niaxillee are twice the size of the 

 lip, thick and hairy on the inner edges. The palpes are rather thickened, 

 like the two former organs yellowish, towards the end covered with 

 somewhat elongated black hairs, and tipped with small black claws. 



The sternum is elliptical, rather wide, very slightly emarginated in 

 front, and terminates posteriorly with a small obtuse prominence ; 

 it is pale yellowish in the middle, and brownish laterally. A small 

 elongated tubercle is seen near the margin, opposite each of the 

 three anterior pairs of feet. 



The first pair of feet is the longest, the third the shortest, being a 

 little longer than one half of the former ; the second and fourth pairs are 

 very nearly equal. All the feet are covered with very small silvery 

 white hairs and with scattered shorter and longer blackish spines. The 

 coxas and femora are yellowish, the tibise and tarsi of the two first 

 pairs are banded alternately with brown and yellow ; on the third pair, 

 however, these bands become very indistinct, and on the fourth they are 

 replaced by a uniform dark brown hue. The two claws on each of the 

 tarsi are very small, black. 



The abdomen is oval, elongated, convex in front, covering the cepha- 

 lothorax to a considerable extent. Above, the anterior portion, marked 

 with a few minute pits, is silvery white ; of the same colour is a longi- 

 tudinal central band, narrowing posteriorly, and on each side there are 

 four large subquadrangular spots on a black ground, separated by 

 short transverse yellow bands ; the last of the four spots is almost ob- 

 solete in young specimens. The sides are striped and freckled with 



