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diameter apart, and distant from the front middle eyes the diameter of the front 
side eyes. The eyes of the hinder row (third) twice the diameter of the front 
middle eyes, three diameters apart. Eye space as long as broad, face high, the 
yellow part of the eyes surrounded by a white transparent rim. 
Mandibles only slightly divergent, rather arched in front, but not knee-formed, 
perpendicular, longer than tibia I. At the upper end and down the outer side 
thickly covered with brown hair, and with long erect bristles on the inner lower 
bare portion. 
Afaxillce arched, rather straight at the top and sloping to the inside, upright 
and parallel, a thick dark-grey fringe and long upstanding hair (black) ; no pale 
edge part; rather narrowed towai’ds the base. 
Lip less than half as long as the maxillie, truncated, slightly rounded towards 
the front corners, and notched in front. 
Sternum flat, truncate, heart-shaped, shiny, thickly covered with dark upright 
hair and paler down-lying ones. 
Abdomen a broad oval, smaller than the cephalothorax ; spinnerets aliout equal 
in length. (Inferior much stouter and more truncate at tlie top than the superior). 
xYlxlomen thickly covered with a mat of short thick upright hair arranged in 
transverse rows on both the upper and under surface. 
Palpi shorter than the cephalothorax ; the femoral joint curved towards the 
head and gradually thickened to the front end ; thickly covered with pale stili'- 
pointed hair ; tarsal joint more thickly haired and darker in colour. 
Legs moderately stout, covered with smooth, nearly white, hair. Long erect 
dark-brown bristles and black spines. Scopula on metatarsi and tarsi. 
This is near L. semicmcta (L. Koch), but in the latter the lip is more than 
half the length of the maxillie. The eyes of the second row not quite a diameter 
from the third and first row, as broad as the second, and the eyes equally distant. 
In this they are one-and-a-third the diameter, and the front row is not quite so 
broad as the second. The lip is less than half as long as the maxillae. The 
abdomen is shorter in proportion and the legs longer compared with the cephalo¬ 
thorax. The front middle eyes are further apart than from the side eyes. In 
other points the two species agree. 
