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Arachnida. 



silky ; the radial joint of the palpi of C. holosericea also wants the 

 stout notched projection at its extremity in front. 



Family Ciniflonid^e. 



ClNIFLO PUTA. 



Female, immature. Length 1 -fifteenth of an inch. Length of 

 cephalothorax 1- thirty -first. Relative length of legs, 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Cephalothorax broadly truncated in front, and slightly compressed 

 on the sides forwards. It is rather convex behind the eyes, 

 towards which it slopes gradually. Hinder slope abrupt, and 

 with a broadish, shallow, longitudinal indentation. Colour yel- 

 low-brown ; margins and ocular region rather darker. The 

 hinder part has some long bristly hairs, slightly directed for- 

 wards. 



Eyes in two curved rows 5 the curves directed backwards ; the hind 

 row the most strongly curved. The eyes of that row are about 

 equidistant from each other ; the end ones are the largest. The 

 two centre ones of the front row are dark-coloured, and rather 

 closer together than each is to the end one on its side. The 

 eyes of the lateral pairs near together, but not contiguous ; the 

 front eye of these pairs the largest of the eight. The front row 

 is situated close above the frontal margin. 



Legs stout, moderate in length, clothed with hairs and spines, and 

 with a calamistrum on the upper side of the metatarsi of the 

 hinder pair. Colour yellowish, tinged with brown. 



Falces short, very powerful, slightly compressed at their base on the 

 sides, prominent in front. Hairy, and similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax. 



Maxillae strong, hairy, slightly inclined to the labium, which is 

 longer than broad, and squarish at the top. These parts are 

 similar in colour to the falces, the labium being rather darker. 



Sternum broad, convex, heart-shaped and hairy. Colour yellowish 

 brown, mottled with darker brown, and the margin bounded by 

 a dark brown line. 



Palpi moderately long, hairy, and like the legs in colour. 



Abdomen large, very convex above, abruptly sloping at the spin- 

 ners, and much projecting over the base of the cephalothorax. 

 It is clothed with hairs, of which there are a good many strong 

 dark ones just uuderneath the upper end, directed upwards and 

 forwards. Colour yellow-brown, thickly mottled and suffused 



