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thorax of tho female yellow, margined with dusky blackish. A 

 large wedge-shaped marking bohind the eyes, and some con- 

 verging thoracic lines are suffused with sooty brown. 



Legs moderately long, 1.2.4.3., very slender, yellow, slightly 

 marked with black at tho joints, and furnished with hairs and 

 fine black spines. 



Abdomenlarge, oval, but not excessively convex above. General 

 colour dull brownish yellow, pretty thickly covered above and on 

 the sides with irregular, cretaceous, yellowish-white spots. In 

 the central line of the fore part is an elongate, tapering, 

 angularly-edged black band, followed by throe black spots in a 

 transverso line, the central spot being connected with the point 

 of the band ; to these succeed a series of six or eight angular 

 black lines, broken or interrupted at the angles, thus forming a 

 double series of opposod dashes, some of which are slightly 

 curved ; one pair of these unite to form, almost on the hinder 

 extremity, a continuous transverse curved lino, ending on each 

 side in a blotch ; between this lino and the spinners are two 

 largo black patches closely succeeding each other, and on tho 

 middle of each side is a strong irregular, longitudinal, black 

 patch ; the underside is dark brown with a black margin. 



The malo (which has not been before described) is similar to 

 the female in colours and markings, but these are not quite so 

 clearly and distinctly defined as in the latter sex. The palpi are 

 short ; the cubital joint is slightly angular in front, and from its 

 most prominent part, near the fore extremity, a long, strong, 

 tapering slightly bent, spine -like bristle is dirocted downwards 

 and forwards, its hair-like point extending to nearly half-way 

 over the digital joint, though not in contact with it. Tho radial 

 is equal to tho cubital joint in length, and is furnished with 

 short fine bristly hairs only. The digital is large, with a strong 

 lobe near the middle of the outer side, and a small, obtuse, 

 somewhat truncated, prominence on tho same side at its base ; 

 the palpal organs are prominent and complex with various 

 characteristic corneous spines and processes, of which it would 

 be (as in so many other cases) impossible to give any correct idea 



