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Arachnida. 



Eyes black. The outer ones of the front row (which is exactly on 

 the upper edge of the forehead) are rather the largest of the 

 eight, and considerably larger than the two middle ones of the 

 same row ; these four eyes are equidistant from each other. The 

 hinder row is much the longer, and rather less curved than the 

 front row ; the eyes composing it are equidistant from each 

 other, the two central ones being slightly smaller than the outer 

 ones. 



Legs moderate in length, rather robust, of the same colour as the 

 cephalothorax, and similarly furnished with hairs and fine 

 spines. The tarsal and metatarsal joints have two rows of 

 papillaeform hairs on their under side ; but this character is not 

 nearly so strongly marked as in P. deletus (above described). 



Palpi like the legs in colour, and similarly clothed with hairs and 

 spines. 



Maxillae and falces similar in colour and clothing to the palpi, but 

 the bristly hairs on the maxillae are not of such a marked cha- 

 racter. 



Sternum and labium yellowish drab, freckled with dark brown, and 

 clothed with brown hairs. 



Abdomen oval, rather abruptly truncated at the upper end, and not 

 very sharply pointed at the spinners. Colour slightly paler 

 than that of the cephalothorax. Clothed with short yellowish 

 brown hairs, and, like the cephalothorax, legs, &c, the upper 

 part and sides are furnished with long erect blackish bristly 

 ones. On the upper side are five dark brown lines or bands, 

 formed by spots and blotches more or less near together ; one 

 of these bands is of a diamond shape much elongated ; it runs 

 down the centre, ending about half-way towards the spinners, 

 and is continued towards them by one or two isolated spots of 

 the same colour ; on either side of the hinder part of this band 

 is another, these tw T o coming together in a point just above the 

 spinners ; and on each upper margin of the forward end of the 

 abdomen is another, running (at first continuously and then 

 with irregular dots) round the whole margin towards the spin- 

 ners ; sundry small spots of the same colour as these bands 

 may be seen dispersed between them, and from these spots 

 spring the most conspicuous of the bristly hairs. On each side 

 of the abdomen, towards the under part, is another broad longi- 

 tudinal band of the same colour, reaching nearly, but not quite, 

 to the spinners. Three longitudinal bands of rather a lighter 



