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marking, or bifid stripe, of the same colour in the medial line, 

 the prongs of the furcate portion are directed forwards, but ter- 

 minate before they roach the ocular area. The eyes of the 

 two central pairs foi-m nearly a square, the fore side boing rather 

 the shortest ; and the anterior row is very much shorter than the 

 posterior. The legs are pale reddish yellow-brown, annulated 

 with brownish-red ; the greater part of the femora of the first 

 and second pairs being dark reddish-brown in the males, but 

 paler and redder in the females. The radial and cubital joints 

 of the palpi (the former of which is produced on the outer side) 

 have each of them two, long, curved bristles directed forwards 

 from their extremity in front; the digital joint is large, and has 

 a curved process at its base, the extremity of the process being trun- 

 cated, notched, and directed outwards. The palpal organs have somo 

 strong processes connected with them, one of which terminates 

 in a strong, pointed spine directed prominently outwards. 



The abdomen has the upper cuticle of a coriaceous, some- 

 what punctuose nature, and round tho anterior margin of the 

 upper side is a single row of seven strongish spines, issuing from 

 small tubercular prominences, and directed forwards ; it is of a 

 reddish yellow-brown colour, mottled with a paler hue, and 

 along the central line of tho upper side is a, more or 

 less, well-defined yellowish (sometimes orange-coloured) 

 tapering band; this band has a dusky line down the middle, 

 emitting fine, irregular, lateral branches, and in some examples 

 it is somewhat curvi-dentate on its margins. In some specimens 

 of the female there is, on the hinder half of the upper side, a 

 series of tolerably distinct, transverse, dark, red-brown, slightly 

 sinuous lines, with an obscure spot of the same hue a little way 

 from its termination on each side. The under side is deep red- 

 brown, bordered laterally with a yellowish band. 



The males have the abdomen, at times, of a very dark colour, 

 the central band being very clear, and the only marking then 

 visible. The lateral bands on the cephalo-thorax are much less 

 distinct in some examples than in others, being at times almost 

 imperceptible. 



