90 PLATE CCCCXXVII. 
The figures, which fhew both the upper and lower furface of this 
gigantic {pider, fufliciently exemplifies its magnitude and general afpett, 
being reprefented in its natural fize. ‘The prevailing colour of the 
upper furface is darker than the lower; it 1s a livid brown faintly 
variegated with reddith. : On very clofe infpeétion, the thorax appears 
to be obfcurely lmeated and dotted with blackith, radiating from the 
ridge of the back, as from a center towards the outer margin: the 
legs alfo are lineated with about four or five equidiftant blackith lines 
{prinkled with a few dots, flightly hairy, and fparingly befet with {mall 
fetiform fpines: the abdomen rather downy. 
The eyes of this fpider, eight m number, are difpofed on the ante- 
rior part of the thorax in a fingular manner: the four anterior ones 
form a tranfverfe curved line, behind which are two contiguous eyes 
of a fimular fize, and a little farther behind two more; but the laft 
are placed much more remotely from each other than the former. 
‘Thofe pofterior eyes are diftinguifhed likewife by being ftatioried each 
upon the fummit of a rather large fmooth lateral tubercle of a rufous 
colour. The exterior eye on each fide in the anterior line, it fhould 
be obferved, is feated on a fimilar fmooth rufous tubercle, but which 
is of a diminutive fize compared with thofe on which the pofterior 
eyes are fituated. 
AAs there is no fpecies of the family to which this fpider belongs 
among thofe already defcribed by Linneus, Fabricius, or any other 
entomological author within our knowledge, that correfponds with 
eur prefent infect, we contider it as a new fpecies. 
FIG. 
