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!s ordinary form ; it has a brownish-black marginal line, or border, and a longitudinal, 
Median, blackish-yellow-brown band extending from the eyes to the hinder margin (where 
is narrower than at its commencement), and divided longitudinally by a fine paler 
iine. 
The eyes are small, and in the usual four pairs, occupying the whole width of the 
u pper side of the fore part of the caput. Those of the hind- central pair are a little nearer 
to each other than each is to the hind-lateral eye on its side ; those of the front row are 
equidistant from each other ; and those of each lateral pair are contiguous to each other, and 
piaced obliquely on a slight tubercle. The four central eyes form a square. The clypeus is 
^pressed immediately below the fore-central eyes, but prominent towards its lower margin, 
and its height exceeds half that of the facial space. 
The legs are tolerably long, and rather slender ; they are furnished with hairs and 
numerous bristles ; many of the latter, especially of those henath the metatarsi and tarsi 
being of a spine-like character. Their relative length is 1, 4, 2, 3, those of the first pair con- 
siderably the longest. 
The palpi are short and slender ; the cubital joint is half the length of the radial, and 
the digital is nearly double the length of the radial. Their armature is like that of the 
kgs. 
The falces are rather weak, moderate in length, and straight, hut a little projecting. 
The maxillce are long, of normal form, and their extremities are even with the extremities 
°f the falces. 
The labium is short, but of ordinary form. 
The sternum is heart-shaped. 
The abdomen is almost globular above, and projects over the base of the cephalothorax ; 
1 t is of a dull luteous colour with a broad median dentated white hand along the middle of the 
^Pper side, prolonged to the spinners in a narrow white stripe ; the upper part of the sides 
a ^e also an irregular longitudinal white hand connected with the median hand by three 
°blique narrow white stripes or lines ; and close to the base of each of these oblique lines, i.e., 
w bere they join the lateral white bands, is a distinct black spot. There is also another black 
s Pot at the hinder termination of the lateral band, with another on each side immediately 
a ud close above the base of the spinners, and one underneath immediately in front of tho 
®Pinners. All these blade spots, which are very distinct and characteristic, form two longi- 
tudinal lines converging to the spot under the spinners, which are also surrounded by some 
w bite spots ; the lower part of the sides, and a broad longitudinal band on the under side 
are more or less mottled with small white spots. 
The male resembles the female in colours and markings, hut its abdomen is far less 
convex above, and the first pair of legs are much longer ; the fore-extremities also of the 
e niora and tibiae of those of the first and second pairs are of a reddish-yellow-brown. 
The palpi are short ; the humeral joint is enlarged and tumid towards its hinder extre- 
^uty, an( i tlic radial is much, and broadly, produced at its outer extremity, where it is fringed 
ATl th a single row of strong bristles ; the digital joints are of moderate size, oval, and bristly 
Uath their convex sides turned towards each other. The palpal organs (which are thus 
auected outwards) are rather complex, but possess no very markedly prominent processes. 
Sab. — Sind Valley, August 5th to 13th, 1874. 
This spider is nearly allied to T. nervosum (Walck.), which it resembles in the general 
character of its markings, though its colours are quite different. 
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