IIOUN EXPEDITION-AIIANE1D.E. 
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arclied longitudinally, sloping steeply to the sides and real-. Eye space flat and 
rectangular, wider than long. 
Eyes. —The front middle eyes touching one another, twice the diameter of the 
side eyes, one-fourth their diameter distant from the margin of the clypeus, the 
row straight at the rear edge. Hinder (third) row the same size as the front side 
eyes. The middle row of eyes very small, slightly nearer to the rear row than to 
the front, and situated on a line joining the outer margins of the front and rear 
side eyes. Quadrangle of eyes slightly narrower behind than in front, and its 
breadth less than that of the whole cephalothorax. 
iMandibles cylindrical, parallel, with small thin fangs, smooth and shiny, and 
without hair. 
MaxilliC upright, parallel, truncate at the anterior margin. Hat, and not 
tapering to either extremity. 
Lip free, triangular, barely one-half the length of the maxillai. 
Sternu/n ovate, broad and truncate at the anterior margin ; thick upstanding 
hairs round the margin, flat and shiny. 
Petiole joining the cephalothorax and abdomen, very unusually long, liroad 
and Hat, aliove half the length of the cephalothorax ; prominently visiljle from 
above. 
Legs. —Coxa of fourth pair of legs wholly attached to the petiole, and that of 
the third pair partially so. Legs short and strong, the third and fourth pair 
nearly eijual in length and longer than the front pairs ; in regular order of length 
from behind. All limbs well armed with long brown spines and long bristles, 
especially on the tarsal and metatarsal joints. Crey claw-tuft covering up the 
two claws. 
Abdomen ovate, broad, rounded at the anterior end, broadest one-third down 
and rather pointed at the rear; rather sparsely haired, with short down-lying 
hairs. Skin hard and slightly rough and harsh (like drawing paper). 
Epigyne. —Pair of circular depi-essions side by side in elliptical shell. 
Spinnerets four, conical, truncate at the top, the inferior pair rather longest 
and largest round ; single-jointed, springing from a common elevation. This species 
is not far removed from P. lignata, but diflers in the epigyne and in the colouring 
and marking of the abdomen. 
