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equal to perhaps a little over two diameters. Those of the fore-central pair are also nearer 
to each other than each is to the fore-lateral on its side, being less than two diameters’ dis- 
tance from each other; those of each lateral pair are seated rather obliquely on a tubercle 
and are contiguous to each other ; the interval between each fore-central eye and the hind- 
central opposite to it is rather greater than the diameter of the former, the height of the 
clypeus being less. 
The legs are long, slender, and tapering ; they are of a rather dull straw-yellow colour, 
all furnished with hairs and spines, and their relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3. Each tarsus ends 
with two claws hidden by a dense black claw-tuft, from which a thin scopula extends back- 
wards beneath the joint, and some little way also along the undei side of the metatarsi, where 
it merges among the ordinary hairs with which those parts are furnished. 
The palpi are short and moderately strong, their colour is. similar to that of the legs, 
except that the digital joint is dark brown ; the humeral joint is rather longer than the 
cubital and radial joints together, the latter being double the length of the cubital, furnished 
with long bristly hiars, and terminating at its fore extremity with two apophyses ; one of 
these on the outer side is tolerably long, of a deep red-brown colour, and corneous nature, 
sinuously bent, tapering, single-pointed, the. point sharp, but not attenuated; the other 
apophysis is on the inner side, short, obtuse, rounded at its extremity, and margined with 
red-brown; the digital joint is large and hairy, the basal half roundish, the fore half some- 
what cylindrically attenuate, the division between the two portions being (as usual) well 
marked by a sudden notch-like, or angular, depression on the outer side; the normal spur, 
directed backwards from the hinder part of the digital joint, is of a deep black red-brown 
colour ; it tapers to a sharp point and is directed outwards, crosses the outer radial apophysis, 
its length being nearly about equal to that portion of the outer margin of the digital joint 
where the abrupt indentation divides it from the semi-cylindrical extremity. The palpal 
organs consist of a large roundish bulb, from the outer side of the fore part of which a 
tapering spine coils round to the base, where it ends in a filiform point ; and along the 
middle is a rather long, pale, corneous process, broad, roundish, blunt, and reddish-brown at 
its fore extremity, which extends well beyond the bulb and has a semi-diaphanous mevnbran. 
ous point in connection with it. 
The f aloes are straight, moderately long, strong, and not very much porrected; they are 
roundly prominent near their base in front, when looked at in profile, aud roundly cut away 
for a very little space on the inner side of the fore extremity ; their colour is a deep, rich, 
shining red-brown. , . ... ,. , . 
The maxillae are of the ordinary form, inclined a little towards the la num, w nch is 
oblong and truncated at the apex, the corners being a little rounded off ; t ie colour of the 
labium is dark red-brown, the apex narrowly margined with pale win is l-ve ow , ie oie 
half of the maxilke is of a less deep red-brown colour, the basal portion being yellow. 
The sternum is heart-shaped, yellow, and depressed between ie pom so ie inser ion 
The abdomen is oval, broadest in the middle, and projects fairly ovei the base of the 
cephalothorax ; it is clothed thinly with hairs, and is of a dull, luteous-yellow colour, thickly 
spotted with small, yellowish- white, cretaceous-looking spots, eavm 0 ^ e noima e 01 i o a n 
macula distinct on the forehalf of the upper side; this macula is rather pom cd at its 
hinder extremity. The spinners are rather small, of moderate length, and of a brownish- 
yellow colour. 
