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unusually long, slightly curved, and have four or five denticulations at their posterior 
extremity. 
The maxilla are not very long, but rather enlarged at their extremities, where they are 
rounded ; and, instead of forming a straight line with the labium, they are turned distinctly 
sideways, thus in another point resembling Dinopis. 
The labium is short, broad, and truncated in a slightly curved convex line at the apex. 
The palpi of the female are truncated at the extremity, and the terminal claw, which is 
nearly straight and finely pectinated, issues from the middle of the truncation. 
118. Boebe benevola, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 4-|- lines. 
The cephalothorax is clothed with short, sandy-grey pubescence, and is of a yellow- 
brown colour, with a broad yellow longitudinal median band, strongly constricted at the 
occiput, and enlarged at the thoracic indentation, the portion in front of the constriction 
forming a very distinct, transverse, oblong-oval area. There is also a broken, narrow, sub- 
marginal yellowish band on each side. The height of the clvpeus is equal to twice the 
diameter of one of the fore central eyes, and the colour of the ocular area- is black. 
The eyes of the front row form a straight line shorter than that of the middle row ; the 
central pair of the front row are larger than the laterals, and are separated by an interval 
wider than that which divides each ftom the lateral eye on its side ; those of the middle row 
are very large, and are separated by nearly about one and a half diameter’s interval, forming 
a line not far from equal to that formed by each and the posterior eye opposite to it ; the 
eyes of the hinder row are large, but smaller than those of the middle one, and form a much 
longer line. 
The legs of the fourth pair are considerably the longest ; and those of the second pair 
apparently the shortest; while there is not so much difference between those of the first and 
third pairs, the first being the longer of the two. They are yellow in colour ; the femora 
marked distinctly with brown spots, patches, and some other linear markings of the same 
hue ; the spines beneath the tarsi are numerous, of equal length, much shorter than those 
on the other joints, and give the joint a comb-like appearance. 
The palpi are like the legs in colours, and in the markings on the humeral joints, and 
are furnished with hairs and a few spine-like bristles. 
The falces are powerful, of moderate length, rounded in profile, clothed with sandy-grey 
hairs and long bristles, and of a dark reddish yellow-brown colour. 
The maxilla are yellow, strongly tinged with yellow-brown, particularly on their inner 
sides, and pale yellowish at their inner extremities. 
The labium is dark yellowish -brown with a pale apex. 
The sternum is of a short heart-shape and dark yellow-brown colour, thinly clothed with 
sandy- grey pubescence. 
The abdomen is oval and moderately convex above ; its colour is a dull brownish-yellow, 
marked with dark brown, occasionally approaching to black ; the intersecting portions of the 
yellow ground-colour are spotted more or less with cretaceous-white spots. The normal 
longitudinal median marking (of a deep brown colour) on the fore half of the upper side is 
large, somewhat wedge-shaped, and roughly dentated on its margins, and its posterior extre- 
