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The eyes are of tolerable size, rather closely grouped together, 

 and seated on black spots ; those of the hind-lateral and lateral 

 pairs are about equal in siz9, and of a dull, bluish, pearly hue. 

 Those of the posterior row are separated by about equal 

 intervals of slightly less than an eye's diamoter ; those of the 

 fore-central pair are minute, indistinct, and soparatod from each 

 other by a small but distinct interval. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength (4.1.2.3.), 

 furnished with hairs and a few slender spines, two or three on 

 the tibiae, and one on the genual joints. The tibice of the first 

 and second pairs are of a darker hue than the rest. 



The palpi are short; the cubital joint ia very short, and, 

 besides some hairs, has a single, strongish, tapering bristle of 

 about double its length, directed forwards from the extremity on 

 the upper side. 



The radial joint is much stronger than the cubital, prominent 

 behind, and has its fore extremity produced into a strongish, 

 tapering, but obtusely pointed, slightly curved apophysis, whose 

 extremity is directed outwards. The digital joint is of moderate 

 size, it has a lobe on the outer side, and is somewhat sub- 

 angularly prominent on the same side near its base ; the palpal 

 organs are complex, but tolerably compact, and present no very 

 striking processes. 



The falces are moderate in length and strength, directed 

 rather backwards, and slightly divergent at their extremities. 



The abdomen is of a rathei 1 narrow-oval form, of a glossy 

 black hue, thinly clothed with coarsish hairs, and projects a little 

 over the ba8e of the cephalo-thorax. 



The female is similar to the malo in colours and general 

 characters ; the process connected with the genital aperture is 

 broad, strong, vertically prominent and very conspicuous ; the 

 abdomen is very large and projects considerably over the base of 

 the cephalo-thorax. 



From Neriene saxatilis, Bl.,this spidermaybedistinguishedby its 

 rather larger size, the deeper, richer colouring of the legs, and 



