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at the apex. These organs are of a reddish-brown colour, the lip being the darkest. The 
sternum is heart-shaped, thinly clothed with long, black hairs, glossy, and of a pale, yellowish- 
brown colour. The legs are robust, provided with hairs and sessile spines, and have a 
yellowish-brown hue, with obscure, soot-coloured annuli; the coxae and femora are much the 
palest, and the metatarsi and tarsi are sometimes tinged with red; each tarsus is terminated 
by three claws ; the two superior ones are curved and pectinated, and the inferior one is 
inflected near its base, on each side of w'hich there is a fine tooth. The palpi resemble the legs 
in colour, but are without annuli, and the digital joint, which is the darkest, has a curved, 
pectinated claw at its extremity. The abdomen is oviform, hairy, convex above, and projects 
over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a brownish-black colour, freckled with yellowish- 
white ; three large, yellowish-white bands extend from the anterior extremity of the upper 
part more than a third of its length; the intermediate one terminates in a point, and the 
lateral ones are enlarged and curved inwards at the extremity; these bands are succeeded by 
a series of four oblique, yellowish-white spots on each side of the medial line; they are 
disposed in pairs, and diminish in size as they approach the spinners, which have a brown hue, 
with yellowish-white extremities; on the under part there are four longitudinal, yellowish- 
white lines; the two intermediate ones, which are composed of confluent spots, are the least 
conspicuous, and near to each other; the sexual organs are well developed, and of a very 
dark, reddish-brown colour, that of the branchial opercula being yellowish-white. 
The male, though somewhat smaller than the female, resembles her in the design formed 
by the distribution of its colours, and in the relative length of its legs, but their absolute length 
is greater. Its palpi have a pale, brownish-yellow hue, the digital joint being the darkest; the 
cubital and radial joints are short, and the latter, which is the larger, and bifid at its extremity, 
underneath, has two conspicuous apophyses in front; one, situated towards the outer side, 
is straight, and has its extremity somewhat enlarged, and prominent at the outer side; the 
other, situated towards the inner side, is large, and terminates in a short, slightly curved 
point; underneath it has a prominent, semicircular, dark, red-brown margin, the inner side of 
which is notched or emarginated; the digital joint is somewhat oval, with a prominent lobe on 
the outer side, and a protuberance at its base; it is convex and hairy externally, concave 
within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed, complicated in structure, 
very protuberant and convex at the base and outer side, and terminate in two curved pro¬ 
cesses, one of which, more curved, pointed, and prominent than the other, has its extremity 
in contact with some delicate, white membrane; near the middle there is a short, curved, 
protuberant process, w’hich has a prominence at its base, both on the outer and inner side ; 
the colour of these organs is red-brown and yellowish-white intermixed, the outer side of the 
convex, protuberant part being almost white. 
This species varies greatly in colour, some individuals being much darker than others. 
The Rev. O. P. Cambridge has found Ciniflo ferox abundant in Portland, under stones 
and fragments of rock; and Mr. R. FI. Meade has taken it in Buckinghamshire, and in cellars 
and neglected buildings in Bradford. 
