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of a bright orange-yellow colour, and clothed with fine hairs, of 

 which a fow stand erect along the upper sides. 



The palpi are moderate in length, the cubital joint is rather 

 long, strong, and somewhat clavate. The radial joint is much 

 shorter but strong, and has its inner side produced into a longish 

 curved tapering apophysis, whose termination is pointed and 

 appears like a corneous addition to the apophysis ; the outer, as 

 well as the posterior side, of the radial joint are also produced 

 in an obtuse form. The digital joint is large, and, with the 

 radial, of a dark brown colour, the rest of the palpus being 

 similar in colour to the legs. The palpal organs are prominent 

 and complex, with a strong black spine, curvod in a circular 

 form at their extromity on the outer side. 



The falces are neither long nor strong, and aro similar in 

 colour to the cephalo-thorax, as also are the maxillse, labium, 

 and sternum, neither of which present any unusual feature. 



The abdomen is of moderate size, and of a somewhat cjdindric- 

 oval form, of a dull blackish-brown colour, and pretty thickly 

 clothed with fine hairs. 



The female resembles the male in colours and general appear- 

 ance, but wants the knob on the caput. Looked at in profile 

 thoro is a considerable dip or depression behind the occiput, 

 gradually running out to the somewhat raised thorax. A similar 

 dip is also observable in tbe male. Each of the eyes of the hind 

 central pair is contiguous to the hind lateral eye on its side ; the 

 rest being (as in the malo) also contiguous to each other. They 

 altogether form nearly a circle, whose posterior side or circumfer- 

 ence is flattened, and has a gap in the middle equal to (apparently) 

 rather less than tho diameter of one of the hind-central eyes. 

 Tho height of the clypeus is less than half that of the facial 

 space. This sex is so very similar to the female of Walckenaera 

 cucullata, 0. Koch, that were it not for a different relative position 

 of the hind-contral eyes, and a slight difference in the form of 

 the genital aperture, it would be very difficult to distinguish them. 

 In this latter species, however, each hind-central eye, instead 

 of being nearly or quito contiguous to the hind-lateral oyo next 



