HORN EXPEDITION—ARANEID^. 
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lateral impressions from the thoracic part, elevated, convex, a deep, narrow longi¬ 
tudinal fovea behind the pars cephalica, smooth and shiny, almost transparent. 
Mandibles protruding forwards, divergent, long, conical, truncate ; five teeth 
on the front edge of the falx, three on the inner; fangs rather stout, long and well 
curved. 
Palpi long and rather fine, digital joint covered with long fine hairs ; a palpal 
claw. 
Eyes .—Front row straight, the middle eyes round, the side eyes oval, about 
equal in size, e(][uidistant, the diameter of the middle eyes apart; their diameter 
from the margin of the clypeus. Hinder row curved forward, the same size. The 
middle eyes a diameter apart, the same distance from the front middle eyes, and 
two diameters distant from their side eyes. The front and rear side eyes on a 
common protuberance. 
Maxillce parallel, not quite twice the length of the lip, rounded on the outer 
edge, cut off slopingly on the inner side. 
Lip truncated at the top, with an indentation in the centre, constricted at the 
base, narrowing from above the constriction towards the front edge. 
Sternum oval, truncate in front, one and a half times as long as broad. 
Abdomen contour oval, four pairs of depressions forming at a little distance, 
two rows of spots reaching from the front to the rear of the back ; sides straight 
and deep; mamilla3, two jointed, the second joint very sliort, the inferior much 
stouter and larger, but only a little longer than the superior j an inframamillary 
organ. 
Legs fine and slender, tapering to the extremity. Long brown spines, tarsal 
claws three; a tuft of long hairs on the end of the tarsal joint, calamistrum on 
metatarsus lY. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalothorax, length 
,, breadth - 
Abdomen, length 
,, breadth 
4 mm. 
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