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in hue, while the falces, maxillae, labium, and sternum are 

 darker. The falces are long, powerful, vertical, and prominent 

 near their base in front, being also armed with a row of five 

 strongish teeth on the inner side of the extremity of each. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position and seated on dark 

 tubercles ; they are rather small, and do not differ very greatly 

 in size. Those of the hind-central pair are much nearer to each 

 other than each is to the hind-lateral eye on its side, the interval 

 between them being equal to a little moro than an eye's 

 diameter ; those of the fore-central pair are almost contiguous 

 to each other. The clypeus projects evenly forwards, and its 

 height rather exceeds half that of the facial space. The palpi 

 are tolerably long, similar in colour to the logs (the radial and 

 digital joint having a deeper tinge), and devoid of any terminal 

 claw. 



The abdomen is of an oblong, somewhat cylindric-ovate form, 

 rather broadest at its hinder extremity ; its colour is black, and it 

 is thinly clothed with hairs. The genital aperture is large, 

 prominent, of characteristic form, and of a dark blackish and 

 red-brown colour. A damaged example of the male appeared 

 to show but little difference from the female in general characters 

 and appearance. The falces, however, are less powerful, and 

 the abdomen shorter and less cylindric in its form. The palpi 

 have the cubital and radial joints short; the latter is consider- 

 ably produced at its fore extremity on the upper side ; the 

 termination being obtusely pointed and directed slightly out- 

 wards; and on the outer margin of the joint is a rather dense 

 tuft of strong black hairs. The digital joint is large, and of 

 a short roundish-oval form ; the palpal organs are prominent 

 and complex ; near their extremity, on the inner side, is a strong, 

 tapering, sharp pointed black spine, which curves round in a 

 nearly circular form underneath the fore extremity of the digital 

 joint, and has its hair-like point in contact with the outer side 

 of the palpal organs, at whose extremity there are also several 

 other prominent corneous processes and spines. At the base 

 of the palpal organs, on tho outer side, is a strong, curved 



