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Idioctis, L. Kocli. 
Idioctis helvn, L. Koch. 
In seven female specimens the third pair of legs is longer in proportion, the 
lips are shorter and the body larger than in those described by L. Koch. 
Localilv .—Palm Creek. Previously de.scribed from Ovalau (Fiji). 
TlIOMISIDiE. 
Hedana, L. Koch. 
Hedmia maculosa, sp. n. (Fig. 11). 
Cephalothorax black-brown above, yellow round the front and side edges ; with 
thick dark liristles here and tliere over both surfaces ; two brown indentations in 
the centre of the back, one on each side. Legs yellow, with black-brown 23atches 
blotched irregularly over them ; thickly set with pale to dark brown bristly hairs. 
Abdomen yellow ground colour with broad ring of black-brown blotches round the 
upper surface (spots in younger specimen converging into continuous ring in 
older); under side yellowish-grey, with concentric rings of darker spots all 
round the outer margin concurrent with the contour; longer dark hairs round 
the margin, but the inner portion of the under surface covered with short fine 
dark hair all erect. Sternum dark brown, with upstanding pale hairs intertwined 
with black, and pale yellow margin. Lip and maxilhe yellow and brown mixed. 
Cephalothorax rather thick, raised up perpendicularly all round tlie margin, 
above flat all over; as broad as long, shorter than patella and tibia I. ; narrower 
but square in front, rounded at the sides. Skin warty and rough, but tlie colours 
deep and decided and altogether effective in appearance. Ko separate pars 
cephalica. Clypeus descending perpendicularly; nearly as wide from the front 
eyes to the margin as between the front and rear middle eyes, blinder slope of 
breast part smooth and shiny and steep, with black markings. 
Eyes .—Front row slightly, hinder strongly, recurved. Front eyes, on yellow 
colouring, black ringed with yellow ; hind row, on lirown colouring, black. Four 
side eyes twice the diameter of the front middle eyes and set so as to be looking 
from the four corners of quadrangle outwards. Hinder middle eyes (black) the 
size of inner black pupils of front middle eyes. Front middle eyes a diameter 
apart and two-and-a-half diameters from the side eyes, two diameters from the 
