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founded on immature specimens. The species now described differs 
from either of the above in the granulation of the Carapace and in 
the ornamentation of the upper surface of the abdomen. 
Carapace closely and father coarsely granulated throughout. 
Posterior row of eyes slightly recurved, the distance between posterior 
median and posterior lateral scarcely 1J times the long diameter of 
the latter. The surface blackish, sparsely provided throughout with 
rather short white hairs. 
Abdomen blackish, ornamented above with a golden band shaped 
like an elongated ellipse, which posteriorly is acutely pointed (see fig.). 
The yellow band is made up of. short, stout, fleshy looking adpressed 
hairs, and the black areas on the upper surface are also covered with 
thick hairs, though these are not quite so thick as the yellow hairs : on 
the ventral surface all the hairs are long and slender. 
Sternum brown, the surface clothed with long, slender dark hairs, 
amongst which are a few white ones. The surface is roughened owing 
to the presence of the numerous raised hair pits. 
Legs . — First and fourth subequal, third shortest. Tarsi slender, 
the unpaired claw obsolete, though the protuberance, relating to this 
claw, is large and well developed. Tarsi I and II without spines or 
spinules, III and IV with spines laterally. Tarsi I and II rather 
strongly scopulate. Distal 2/5ths of metatarsus I also scopulate, but 
at the distal end of metatarsus II, and to a less extent also of III and 
IV, there is a dense tuft of long hairs. The appendages are all dark 
brown, the chelicerae, palps, femora of legs and metatarsi III and IV 
being sparselv clothed with white hairs. 
Palp short and stout. External apophysis of tibia projects out- 
wards and is strongly bent distally : viewed from the side its lower 
margin has a sigmoid curve. Tarsus armed with a double row of short 
but strong spines along its inner margin, and several along the external 
margin distally : the apex is forked into two strong spinifoim 
processes. 
Total length 9.5 mm. 
The presence of scopulae and the absence of spines or spinules on 
tlie anterior tarsi are noteworthy characters, as in the allied genus 
Cydrela, the front tarsi are spined but not scopulate. 
