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Show 434 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON [June 16, no special prominence or elevation ; it is, however, bold and full, the occiput well rounded, and the clypeus impressed below the eyes, but rather full and prominent near its lower margin, and exceeding considerably in height half that of the facial space ; the colour is dark black-brown, getting paler towards the margins; the whole surface (caput as well) thickly but minutely punctuose. The eyes are small and of nearly uniform size, disposed in two transverse curved rows of nearly equal length, and not far from each other ; the foremost row is the shortest, and the curves are directed away from each other: the eyes of the hinder row are equidistant from each other; those of the fore central pair are the smallest, and contiguous to each other ; those of each lateral pair are seated contiguously, and slightly obliquely, on a strongish tubercle. The legs are of moderate length, but rather slender, and their relative length appeared to be 4, 1, 2, 3 ; they are yellow, the femora being reddish orange, and are furnished with short fine hairs. The palpi are moderate in length and strength, nearly similar in colour to the legs; the humeral joint orange, the radial and digital tinged with dusky brown; they are furnished with a few fine hairs, those on the digital joint being much the longest. The humeral joint is bent and unusually strong, the cubital short and strongly curved in a sort of knee-joint form; the radial is shorter than the cubital, but stronger, and has its fore extremity (rather on the outer side) produced into a short obtuse prominence bent a little downwards ; the hinder part is also a little produced, and there is a small angular joint at the middle of its inner extremity ; the digital joint is oval and rather large, being longer than the radial and cubital joints together; the palpal organs are prominent and complex, and have a strongish black somewhat tortuously coiled, filiform, sharp-pointed spine near their fore extremity. The falces are strong, moderately long, with a curved profile-line, and are a little paler in colour than the cephalothorax. The maxilla and labium are of normal form, and similar in colour to the falces. The sternum is heart-shaped, of a deep rich black-brown colour, and its surface coarsely punctuose. The abdomen is short, round oval in form, very convex above, and projects strongly over the base of the cephalothorax ; its upper surface, on the middle of which four dark impressed spots form a quadrangular figure), is covered by a strong shining coriaceous epidermis of a bright orange colour, covered with minute punctures and clothed with a few short fine hairs; a somewhat similar epidermis beneath the fore part includes the spiracular plates, but is of a redder colour; and there is a bold patch of the same colour in front of the spinners ; the sides and remainder of the underside are yellowish, marked with dusky greenish brown, arranged somewhat in obscure parallel longitudinal lines on the sides and hinder part. The adult female resembles the male, except in wanting the coriaceous epidermis on the abdomen, which is of a uniform yellowish colour, mottled and marked with dull greenish brown, freckled with |
