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with yellow-grey liairs, is brown, with a longitudinal, central, 

 and two (one on each side) lateral bands of a darker hue. The 

 central group of eyos is placed on a prominence forming nearly 

 a square, whoso posterior side is distinctly shortor than the 

 anterior. The legs are strong, of a pale yellow-brown colour, 

 annulated with dark brown, and clothed with greyish hairs ; the 

 spines are neither very long, nor very strong ; the relative length 

 of the legs is 1.2.4.3. The sternum is yellow-brown, broadly 

 margined with dark-brown ; or it may be described as dark- 

 brown with a broad, central, longitudinal, yellow-brown band. 

 The abdomen is of the shape detailed above, and projects well 

 over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; the upper side is almost 

 entirely occupiod by a broad, longitudinal, boldly and sharply den- 

 tated, black-brown band, which narrows gradually to the spinners ; 

 this band includes the inside halves of the conical prominences, and 

 generally continues over the fore-extremity of the abdomen, ending 

 in an indistinctly angular form ; the margins of this band behind 

 the protuberances is very clear and distinct, formed by fine, con- 

 tiguous, black, and yellowish lines, tho hinder part of the band 

 being the darkest; a blackish, transverse band also runs 

 between the points of tho protuberances. In front of this 

 transverse band are two yellowish, transverse, angular stripes, 

 and upon and behind it is an elongate, somewhat diamond- 

 shaped, black, central marking, broadly edged with yellowish ; 

 this is continued backwards for some little distance, in 

 the medial line, by an obscure band or stripe indicated 

 by its yellowish irregular margins. The sides are obliquely 

 streaked with black, and in some examples there are some 

 longitudinal black streaks close to the under side, which last is 

 usually of a blackish hue, and has two large, round, yellow 

 spots, wide apart, in a transverse line half way between the 

 genital aperture and tho spinners. The basal process connected 

 with tho genital aperture is strong and prominent ; and from it 

 another, similar in form and direction to that of Epiiira diademata, 

 but broador and stronger, runs backwards, reaching a point mid- 

 way between tho two yellow spots above-mentioned. 



