HORN EXPEDITION-ARANEIDiE. 
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Eyes nearly equal in size ; liinder row strongly procurvecl, middle eyes a 
diameter apart. The side eyes one-and-a-half diameter from the middle eyes. 
Front row straight, side eyes almost touching the middle eyes, the latter three- 
quarters of a diameter apart. Front middle eyes two diameters from the margin 
of the clypeus, and slightly more from the hinder middle eyes. 
Maiidihles knee-formed at the base, much arched transvei’sely, widening from 
the base to one-third of the distance down, thence naiTOwing to the front edge, 
which is adorned with thick pale orange fringe. 
Fangs short, rather broad at the base, of deep brown colour. Tuner front 
edge of the falx bright red-brown. 
ATaxillce, divergent, arched transversely, rounded at the base and a long outer 
margin, truncated at the top and slopingly on inner edge. 
Lip less than one-half the height of the maxilla', rounded anteriorly, with a 
broad, pale coloui’ed, inwardly-sloping margin, thence gradually narrowing to the 
1 )ase. 
Sternum a short ovate, rather wide in front, pointed at the rear, slightly arched 
from the edges to the centre, and clothed all round the margin with thick, erect, 
pale yellowish-brown hairs or bristles. The centre smooth and shiny, black-brown. 
Abdomen oval, slightly smaller at the rear end than in front; sides and back 
arched from a flat under surface ; lightly clothed with erect thin long hairs and 
thick flat feathery scales, but bare in most parts. 
Legs .—Femoral joints ai’ched and thickened in the middle, smooth and shiny, 
with few thin erect haii’s. Tarsi and metatarsi clothed with thick, erect short 
yellow hairs. Two claws and thick claw-tuft at the end of the tarsus. Long 
black spines. Radial and digital joints of palpi thickly clothed with short erect 
yellowish hair, with three or four long spines at the base of the digital joint. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalothorax, length 
4 mm. 
,, breadth 
Abdomen, length - 
,, breadth 
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