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former is very strongly constricted laterally forwards, the caput being 

 produced, and broader at the fore margin than at the point of constric- 

 tion, and the thorax round (oval when looked at from above). There 

 is a strong dip or indentation in the profile line at the junction of the 

 caput and thorax ; and the junction of the thoracic segments is marked 

 by a deeply impressed red-brown line ; the other normal indentations 

 are of a dusky hue : the caput has some long black bristles on its fore 

 part directed forwards ; and the rest of the cephalothorax has a few 

 short fine hairs upon it : the height of the clypeus is less than half 

 of that of the facial space. 



The eyes are in two nearly concentric curved rows well separated from 

 each other, the curves directed forwards, the hinder row being con- 

 siderably the longest : the two central eyes of the hinder row are 

 the largest of the eight, and are further from each other than each is 

 from the hind lateral on its side ; and a similar separation is observ- 

 able between the eyes of the front row. 



The legs are moderately long and rather strong, but not greatly differ- 

 ing in length ; their relative length is 4, 1, 3, 2 ; they are of a dull 

 yellowish colour, tinged with brown, and without any annulations or 

 darker markings ; they are furnished with longish hairs, bristles, and 

 fine spines ; and each tarsus ends with three claws. 



The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, and are pretty well furnished 

 with hairs and long spine-like bristles. 



The falces are long and strong, a little directed backwards, prominent at 

 their base in front, and of a deep reddish-brown colour. 



The maxillce and labium are of normal form, of a yellowish-brown colour, 

 pale whitish at the extremities. 



The abdomen is hairy, of a dusky blackish colour above, striated with lines 

 of a pale dull hue on the sides ; and on the fore part of the upperside 

 in the central line is an elongate oblong marking of a pale dull colour, 

 having a roughly angular prominent point about the middle on either 

 side, and its posterior extremity strongly forked, branching off into an 

 oblique bar on each side; this is followed by 2-3 angular bars or 

 chevrons united at their apices, and decreasing in size towards the 

 spinners : on each side of the elongate marking are two other irre- 

 gular pale patches in a longitudinal and parallel line : on the under- 

 side the abdomen is of a dull whitish hue; and the sexual aper- 

 ture is of peculiar and characteristic form ; the spinners of the su- 

 perior pair are two-jointed, long, and upturned, and of a pale dull 

 yellowish- white colour. 



A single adult female of this spider (which in the abdominal 

 pattern greatly resembles spiders of the genus Tegenaria) was re- 

 ceived early in the present year from Mentone, where it was cap- 

 tured, and kindly sent to me by J. Traherne Moggridge, Esq. As 



