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Arachnida. 



Legs long. Colour pale yellow. Clothed sparingly with hairs and 

 a few longish black spines. The fourth pair are the longest, and 

 the third pair the shortest, and but little shorter than the second 

 pair. 



Maxillae same colour as the legs. Longish, straight, enlarged at 

 the tops, where they are rounded on the outer sides. The inner 

 sides are obliquely hollowed, and thickly clothed with short 

 black hairs. 



Labium tinged with reddish brown, broader at the top than at the 

 base. The top is slightly hollowed or notched. 



Falces straight and cylindrical, but neither remarkably long nor 

 stout. Rather darker coloured than the cephalothorax, and cut 

 away on the inner sides near their extremity in an obliquely 

 transverse line. 



Sternum long-oval, pointed near the abdomen. Colour yellowish, 

 sometimes suffused with blackish brown. 



Palpi short and stout. Cubital joint slightly clavate, and the mar- 

 gin underneath protuberant ; it is longer than the radial joint, 

 which is enlarged at its extremity, and has on the outer side 

 three strong projections or apophyses, of a deep black-brown 

 colour tinged with red — one, towards the front, is broad, with 

 the extremity hollowed out or notched ; another, less strong 

 than the former, projects just behind it, at right angles to the 

 joint, and has its extremity sharply bent forwards ; the third is 

 flattish, and has the appearance of a dagger-blade slightly folded 

 on one side ; it is the longest of the three, and has a sharp 

 point ; it issues from beneath the other two, and applies closely 

 to the digital joint, rather underneath on its outer side, extend- 

 ing to nearly half its length. The radial joint has also two 

 slight conical protuberances at its extremity — one on its upper 

 side, the other on the inner side. The digital joint is long-oval 

 and hairy, its colour yellowish, slightly suffused with brown. 

 Palpal organs simple and not very prominent ; from their ex- 

 tremity on the inner side there projects a short, stout, slightly 

 curved, dark black-brown spine ; and from their extremity 

 towards the inner side is a longish, narrow, semitransparent 

 projection, in contact with which is the prominent sharp point 

 of a slender reddish spine ; this spine issues from underneath 

 the extremity of the palpal organs, but its true origin and 

 situation I could not satisfactorily ascertain ; but apparently its 

 origin is underneath the outer extremity of the outer lobe. 



