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The falces are cylindrical, somewhat longer than broad, pale greenish 

 slightly narrowed towards the tips, and furnished with short brown claws. 



The lip is very small, semicircular ; the maxillae much larger, sub- 

 quadrangular, flattened, roundish anteriorly, slightly widened at the 

 base where the thin palpi are inserted ; the former two organs are 

 brownish, the latter pale yellowish or greenish with a few black stiff 

 hairs towards their tips. 



The sternum is longer than broad, truncate anteriorly, pointed pos- 

 teriorly, with a slight prominence opposite the base of the lip and that 

 of each coxa of the three anterior pairs of feet ; it is deep black, general- 

 ly with a longitudinal central yellowish streak, and on its entire surface 

 thickly covered with short hairs. 



The feet do not vary greatly in length : the first is the longest, the 

 second and fourth are almost perfectly equal, but not much shorter 

 than the first, and the third is about equal to three-fifths of the first ; 

 they are greenish with minute black dots, giving origin to longer and 

 shorter black hairs, and with a few longitudinal black lines on the 

 femora, especially conspicuous on their upper sides. 



The abdomen is somewhat longer than the thorax, the base of which 

 it slightly covers with its truncated front edge. On the anterior upper 

 portion it has two pairs of pointed prominences, those of the posterior 

 pair being a little nearer to each other than the anteriors. These promi- 

 nences are, at least on the inner sides, black, but the surface between and 

 all round them is marbled and streaked with white, reddish and partially 

 with black ; the surface near the posterior end, which is raised above the 

 spinners, is blackish brown with a few paler, very fine transverse lines. 

 The sides of the body are finely streaked with black and white. The 

 inferior side is blackish brown with a white streak on each side, 

 running in a slight curve from the sexual opening to the spinners ; 

 besides these, two small distant white spots are to be observed below 

 the epiginium, two pairs of similar spots in the middle between it 

 and the spinners, two larger white spots on each side of the spinners 

 and two white streaks running from the prominent spinners to the 

 end of the body. The epiginium is very little raised and brown. 

 Length of thorax 2.7 m.m. ; its width in the middle 1.9 m.m. 



abdomen 4 ,, ; 2.2 „ 



one of the first pair of feet 11 m.m. 



