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HORN EXPEDITION-ARANEID.®. 
from one anotlier. The posterior row longei’. The middle eyes the same diameter 
as tlie front middle eyes ; two-and-a-half diameters apart; one-and-a-half-diameters 
from the front middle eyes; two-and-a-half diameters fi’om tlie hinder side eyes, 
which are twice the diameter of the others and raised on a small protuberance and 
look sideways and backwards. 
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MaxillcB nearly parallel at the base and for half their length, but suddenly 
bent backwai’ds, having an impression in the outer margin; I’ounded at the upper 
mai’gin, with a thick, grey liair fringe. Lower portion of maxilla* bright golden, 
upper margin pale. 
Lip contracted at base, broadest just above the contraction, thence narrowing 
towards the anterior margin; truncated and straight at the upper edge, and less 
than one-half the length of the maxilla*. Golden-brown below and through golden 
to pale at the upper margin. 
Sternum broad, oval, bright and glossy golden colour with long, thin, brown 
hairs round the margin ; no projecting cover at the front end. 
Abdomen flattened on upper and under surface, ovate, truncated in front, 
covered with darker and lighter, rather rough, erect, grey hairs. Short black 
hairs on the hinder part of the under surface. 
Mammillce four, of equal length, two-jointed, second joint short, the superior 
thinner than the inferior. 
Legs long, .smooth and slender. Coxa; (especially coxa TV.) unusually pro¬ 
longed, sparsely covered with short flne hairs, brown and pale. Long spines, on 
the femur and metatarsus of all legs; first and second pairs of legs equal, fouinh 
pair longest; tarsal claws two, fine divided claw-tuft. 
Palpi covered with short brown and pale hairs. Male palp largely developed, 
white hairs on the upper slieath. AVhite bladder raised and covered by dark brown 
muscles, a protuberance on radial joint. 
Dimensions. 
Cephalothorax, length 
5 mm. 
,, breadth 
Abdomen, length - 
,, breadth - 
