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The three eye-groups are widely separated from each other, 

 the lateral pairs occupying the extreme fore corners of the upper 

 part of the caput, and (like others of this group) the area of 

 the fore-central eyes is prominent. 



The legs are rather long, and strong, of a yollowish colour, 

 broadly annulated with dark reddish brown ; like Epeira diademata 

 the tibia) of the second pair aro incrassatod, and armed on the 

 inner-side with very strong, modorately long spines. Tho palpi 

 (of the male) are very short; the cubital joint is rather pro- 

 minent in front, where it has also two long, strong, tapering 

 bristles ; and the radial point is produced on tho outer-side. 

 The digital joint is large but elongated, and has, at its base, a 

 curved blackish process, whose obtuse point is dircctod out- 

 wards and rather forwards ; the palpal organs are very prom- 

 inent, and complex, but tolerably compact. 



The abdomen (of the female) is of extremely large size, and 

 projects over the cephalo-thorax so as almost ontirely to con- 

 coal it when looked at from a very little way behind ; it is 

 broader in front than behind, but not so sub-angular in form as 

 that of Epeira diademata, nor has it any angular prominences on 

 the fore corners, but is very obtusely pointed at the middle of 

 the fore extremity. The form of the abdomen of the male is a 

 more regular oval, and much less convex above than that of the 

 female, projecting also far less over the cephalo-thorax. Its 

 colour is pale yellow with a broad, contral, longitudinal, deep 

 brown-black band on the hinder half of tho upper side, slightly 

 and gradually narrowing as it runs backwards ; the fore extremity 

 of this band is (like the whole of it) exceedingly clearly defined, 

 and angularly prominent ; it is also closoly reticulated with 

 yellow. The sides and undor part aro streaked and mottled 

 with deep brown and yellow-brown ; tho under sido having a 

 very broad, blackish, longitudinal, central band, with two, curved, 

 longitudinal, yellow stripes, whose extremities are enlarged on 

 the inner sides, and thus partially enclose a largo quadrate area 

 on the middle of the under part. The process connocted with 



