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ing on the fore part (close behind the eyes) is of a pointed oval 

 form at its hinder extremity ; it is of a brownish hue, always 

 faint and often obsolete ; on each side towards the hinder 

 Gitromity of the central longitudinal band is a patch of a much 

 deeper brown than tho rest. 



The legs are marblod with whito, yellow-brown, and various 

 shades of red-brown ; sometimes, but not often, in a somewhat 

 irregularly annulated form. 



The palpi are short, the radial joint has two apophyses at its 

 extremity on the outer side, the foremost of these is rather 

 obtusely pointed, and the hinder one is depressed and rounded at 

 its extremity. 



The digital joint is of moderate size, and tho palpal organs are 

 neither very prominent nor complex. 



Tho abdomen is oval (in the female it is broador behind than in 

 front) and somewhat flattened on the upper side. This is of a 

 dull brownish-grey hue, more or less marked and peppered with 

 black, and broadly margined with greyish- white ; the dentated 

 hand is greyish- white, slightly speckled with minute dark points, 

 and tolerably well denned ; it differs from that of the three fore- 

 going species, by its getting much narrower, after tho two first 

 donticulations, and being then but very slightly denticulated 

 during the rest of its progress to the spinners. Close behind the 

 foremost denticulation, on each side, is a strong, but short, trans- 

 verse conspicuous, black bar, which, together with the black 

 spots in the shallow denticulations near the hinder extremity of 

 the band, give a strongly distinctive character to the abdominal 

 markings of this species. The sides are dark grey, markod with 

 several broken oblique lines of black spots, which emanato from 

 the upper side, crossing also its white marginal border. The 

 under side is of a pale greyish yellow-brown colour. In some 

 examples the fore part of the upper side (on each side of the 

 dentated band) is red-brown, now and then of a brightish rust- 

 red hue, the dentated band being also much darker than usual. 

 This variety has been described as a distinct species — Thomism 

 rufopictue (I.e. supra) though with a conjecture at the time that 



