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CINIFLONIDjE. 
ClNIFLO MORDAX. PI. IX, fig. 91. 
Ciniflo mordax, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. iii, p. 93. 
Length of the female, §ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ,th, breadth, ^th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, 1th ; length of an anterior leg, gths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, l§ths. 
The eyes are disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in two transverse rows ; 
the anterior row, which is straight, is situated near the frontal margin, and the posterior row 
is slightly curved, with its convexity directed backwards; the intermediate eyes of both rows 
describe a trapezoid whose anterior side is the shortest; and the eyes of each lateral pair, 
which are rather the largest of the eight, are seated obliquely on a tubercle. The cephalo- 
thorax is large, convex, glossy, compressed before, and rounded on the sides, which are 
marked with furrows converging towards an elongated indentation in the medial line; it is 
depressed, and broadly truncated in front, and of a red-brown colour; the cephalic region, 
which is much the darkest, having a brownish-black hue. The falces are very powerful, 
conical, vertical, convex in front, near the base, armed with teeth on the inner surface, and 
of a brownish-black hue. The maxillae are strong, enlarged and rounded at the extremity, 
and somewhat curved towards the lip; the lip is longer than broad, dilated about the middle, 
and truncated at the apex; and the sternum is oval and glossy. These parts have a red- 
brown hue, the sternum being much the palest, particularly in the middle. The legs are 
robust, provided with hairs and sessile spines, and of a red-brown colour; the metatarsi of 
the posterior pair are provided with calamistra on their superior surface, and each tarsus is 
terminated by three claws ; the two superior ones are curved and pectinated, and the inferior 
one is inflected near its base; the first pair is the longest, then the fourth, and the third pair 
is the shortest. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, the radial and digital joints being the 
darkest, and have a curved, pectinated claw at their extremity. The abdomen is oviform, 
convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is thinly clothed with 
hairs, and of a brown colour, obscurely freckled with yellowish-white, the under part being 
the palest; a yellowish-white band extends along the middle of the upper part, about two 
thirds of its length, and an obscure, longitudinal line of the same hue occurs on each side of 
the middle of the under part; the sexual organs are highly developed, and of a dark, reddish- 
brown colour; the spinners are eight in number, and, with the exception of those of the 
inferior pair, which are united throughout their entire length, and have a yellowish-white 
hue, are of a red-brown colour. 
This spider was captured in the Isle of "Wight, on the 1st of August, 1858, by 
Frederick Bond, Esq., who gave it to the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, from whom it was received. 
