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vertical, and armed with a few teeth on the inner surface. These parts are of a brownish-red 
colour, the former having a band extending along each side, and a streak on each side of the 
posterior part of the cephalic region, which passes obliquely to the medial indentation, where 
the two meet in an angle; these bands and streaks have a brown hue, the indentation being 
much the darkest. The maxillse are short, strong, straight, and enlarged and rounded at the 
extremity; the lip is semicircular, but somewhat pointed at the apex; and the sternum, which 
is heart-shaped, has conspicuous prominences on the sides, opposite to the legs, and is thickly 
marked with punctures. These parts are of a very dark-brown colour, faintly tinged with 
red, the maxillae being rather the palest. The eyes are seated on black spots on the anterior 
part of the cephalo-thorax; the four intermediate ones form a square, the two posterior ones 
being the largest, and the two anterior ones, which are placed on a slight prominence, rather 
the smallest of the eight; those of each lateral pair are seated on a minute tubercle, and are 
near to each other, but not in contact. The abdomen is oviform, marked with numerous 
punctures, sparingly clothed with short, pale hairs, convex above, somewhat pointed before, 
where there are several short bristles, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is 
of a yellow colour on the upper part and sides, and is densely reticulated with dark-brown, 
particularly on the latter; the medial line, which is the palest and least reticulated, comprises 
in its broader anterior region six circular, dark-brown depressions disposed in pairs, the two 
anterior pairs, which are the most conspicuous, forming a square; and between this square 
and the spinners there is a series of transverse, slightly sinuous, dark-brown lines ; a broad, 
dark-brown band occupies the middle of the under part, and is bordered laterally with yellow; 
the sexual organs are rather prominent, and present a dark-brown, glossy convexity on each 
side, with a red-brown process in the middle, directed backwards, whose extremity is the 
broadest; the colour of the branchial opercula is dark-brown tinged with red. 
The sexes bear a strong resemblance to each other, but the male, which is the smaller 
and darker coloured, has the anterior part of its cephalo-thorax more pointed. The femora 
of the first and second pairs of legs are of a brownish-black hue, except at their base and 
extremity, which have a yellowish-red tint, and a small, slightly curved, pointed process 
occurs at the extremity of the coxae of the anterior pair, on the under side. Its palpi are 
short, and of a brownish-yellow colour, with the exception of the digital joint, which has a 
very dark-brown hue ; the radial joint is produced on the outer side, and both it and the 
cubital joint have two long, curved bristles directed forwards from their extremity, in front; 
the digital joint is somewhat oval, with a process at its base, which is curved outwards, and 
notched at its extremity; it is convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the 
palpal organs; these organs are highly developed, complex in structure, with a process at 
their base, which projects a strong, prominent spine directed obliquely outwards and upwards, 
and a finer and more pointed one directed obliquely downwards, towards the inner side ; 
their colour is very dark-brown intermixed with yellow-brown. The convex sides of the 
digital joints are directed towards each other. 
In the autumn of 1860, Mr. R. H. Meade captured at Newton Purcel, in Oxfordshire, 
an adult female and an immature male of this interesting Ejjeira, which is remarkable for 
having the posterior pair of legs longer than the anterior pair. Mr. Meade had previously 
obtained several young individuals of this species in the same locality; and in the autumn of 
1861 the Rev. O. P. Cambridge took an adult male and female at Bloxworth, in Dorsetshire. 
