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Epeira (^Singa) gracilis, sp. n. (Fig. '3). 
Cephalotliorax, legs, palpi, mandibles, maxilUe a pale straw colour, slightly 
darker longitudinal stripe down the middle of the cephalotliorax from behind the 
second row of eyes through head part to the centre of the breast part. Lip and 
sternum yellowish-brown. Abdomen above striped longitudinally, with alternate 
grey and pale pink lines. Underneath yellow, mottled with darkish grey. Very 
fine, small upstanding white hairs sparsely scattered over the limbs and abdomen. 
Cephalotliorax twice as long as broad, narrow in front and gradually widening 
to the fourth pair of legs, rounded at the forehead and at the rear. Cephalic part 
rather indistinctly marked by faint side depressions. A round depression about 
the middle of the breast part, from whence the cephalotliorax slopes off gradually 
to the rear and sides. Whole of cephalotliorax arched transversely, smooth and 
shiny. 
Abdomen rounded in front, nearly cylindrical as far as spinnerets, whence a 
conical tail slopes off to a point one-half the length of the portion of the abdomen 
from the front end to the spinnerets. Upper surface bare of hair, but under¬ 
surface, sides and front end sparsely covered with fine white hairs. 
Eyes. —Four middle eyes form a trapezium narrowest at the rear ; the two 
hinder a diameter apart, the two front one-and-a-half diameter of the rear ; two 
of their diameters apart, and the same distance from the rear eyes. Side eyes 
small, almost touching ; front side eyes as far from the front middle eyes as the 
latter are from the rear middle eyes. Seen from above the side eyes are in longi¬ 
tudinal line and the hind row straight; from in front the front row slightly curved 
down. 
Mandibles conical, large at base, as long as patella I. ; fangs small and weak, 
of pale red colour, smooth and shiny. 
Maxillce. arched, triangular, truncate in front and pointed at the hinder end; 
twice as broad in front as high. 
Lip slightly darker in colour, free, triangular ; one half the height of the 
maxillte ; a few long hairs on top. 
Palpi slender, with large (not fully developed) clavicle ; a few white hairs on 
the lower joints and clavicle. 
Sternum flat, long, cordate, truncate in front, pointed at the hinder end, 
twice as long as broad, rather rough and bare,'darkish yellow-brown all round, but 
with a paler stripe in the centre. 
