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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATURAE [March, 1885. 
visible from above, and is a little curved. The lateral are 
placed further back than the middle eyes, and are less than half 
as large; the middle eyes are sub-touching and the lateral are 
separated from them by a space equal to >< their own diam¬ 
eter. The eyes of the second row are nearer the lateral than the 
dorsal eyes. The eyes of the third row are as large as the lateral 
eyes, and are placed on the margin of the cephalothorax; they 
are equally distant from each other and from the lateral borders. 
There is no frons. There are a few long stiff black hairs in the 
eye region. 
The clypeus is vertical, less than half as wide as the large 
middle eyes. 
The falces are stout and moderately long, inclined forward, and 
diverging; their color is glossy black. The fang is nearly as 
long as the falx, and has a tooth near the tip. 
The maxillm are a little wider and rounded at the tip, and are 
nearly parallel. They are black, with the inner edges white. 
The labium is more than half as long as the maxilte; it is 
rounded at base, narrower at extremity. It is black, except the 
tip, -which is -white. 
The sternum is wide and rounded behind, a little narrower 
and truncated in front; it is but little longer than wide. Its 
co or is black. The anterior coxa: are separated by the width of 
the labium. 
The relative length of the legs is 1, 4, 3, 2; the first and second 
pans are the stoutest. There are numerous strong spines on the 
femora , tibial and metatarsal joints of the four pairs, those on 
the me atarsi of the fourth extending to the base; and the patella: 
the PairS haVe CaCh ° ne s P ine - The color of 
the legs is black, excepting the tarsi, which are white. 
the base a n?, “ * a ^ s P°t of white hairs at 
kle one in ft 7° white Averse bands on each 
side, one m front of and one behind the middle 
1 he venter is black. 
Habitat. Madagascar. 
Prom the collection of Graf E. von Keyserling. 
