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CINIFLONIDiE. 
Ergatis pallens. PI. X, fig. 94. 
Ergatis pallens, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. iii, p. 94. 
Length of the female, jth of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, 5 ’,th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of an anterior leg, <jth; length of a leg of the 
third pair, gth. 
The legs and palpi are moderately long, provided with hairs, and of a pale, dull-yellow 
hue. The legs of the first pair are the longest, then those of the second pair, and the 
posterior legs, which have a calamistrum on the superior surface of their metatarsi, are 
longer than those of the third pair; 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 
cephalo-thorax is compressed before, depressed and rounded on the sides, which are marked 
with furrows converging towards the middle, and the cephalic region is convex and rounded 
in front; it is of a dark-brown colour, with a broad, yellowish-brown band, which tapers to 
its posterior extremity, and is densely covered with yellowish-gray hairs, extending from the 
eyes along the middle, nearly two thirds of its length, and a dentated, yellowish-white band 
on each lateral margin. The eyes are nearly equal in size, and the four intermediate ones 
form a square. The falces are powerful, conical, and vertical; the maxillae are convex at 
the base, somewhat dilated near the middle, rounded at the extremity, which is more 
abruptly curved on the inner than on the outer side, and inclined towards the lip, which is 
large, triangular, and rounded at the apex; and the sternum is heart-shaped. These parts 
are of a reddish-brown colour, the sternum and lip being the darkest, and the falces much 
the palest. The abdomen is oviform, convex above, and projects over the base of the 
cephalo-thorax; it is clothed with short hairs, and is of a grayish-yellow colour; in the 
medial line of the upper part there is a dark, red-brown spot, nearly of a circular form, 
' situated full one third of its length from its anterior extremity; and at the posterior 
extremity a few short, curved, transverse bars of the same hue occur, which diminish in 
length as they approach the spinners; a few obscure, dark-brown streaks and spots are 
disposed along the sides, and a broad, longitudinal band, of the same colour, occupies the 
middle of the under part; the spinners are eight in number, and the two inferior ones are 
united throughout their entire length. 
This Ergatis was taken among heath at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, by the Rev. O. P. 
Cambridge, in September, 1858. 
