HI I VGODES. 149 



121. Rhagodes semiflavus, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) iv. p. 473, 1889; 

 id. Jour. Horn. N II. Soc. ix, p. 450, t. B, fig. 2 (Rhax). 



Colour. Head and mandibles a uniform deep brown ; thoracic 

 terga pale : anterior four terga of abdomen and anterior portion 

 of the 5th blackish, posterior portion of 5th and the whole of the 

 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th pale yellow, the last or anal segment 

 black ; sides of abdomen yellowish brown in front opposite the 

 black terga, a deeper more chocolate brown behind opposite 

 the pale terga; ventral surface of abdomen yellowish, covered with 

 reddish-golden hairs ; palpi flavous," with tibia and tarsus deep 

 brown ; first leg flavous, with tarsus and distal end of tibia deep 

 brown and tibia clothed with reddish hairs ; remaining legs 

 uniformly flavous, with deep brown spines ; malleoli uniformly 

 flavous. Width of head about equal to patella and half the tibia 

 of the palp, to tibia and two-thirds of the patella of the 4th leg, 

 and to patella, tibia, and half the tarsus of the 3rd leg. Palp 

 scarcely exceeding twice the width of the head, 2nd leg with 

 patella armed above with one stout median apical spine, and below 

 with one pair of setiform spines at the distal end and some stout 

 seta? behind them; tibia armed with 6-7 stout spines above in an 

 irregular row, also" with a pair of spines below at the distal end 

 and two spiniform seta? in a row on the underside in front, the 

 distal of these much the stouter of the two ; tarsus armed with 

 three pairs of spines in addition to numerous stiff bristles : 3rd leg 

 armed like the 2nd, the inferior pair of setiform spines on patella 

 stouter, the proximal of the two spiniform seta? on the front of 

 the underside of tibia thinner as compared with the distal ; patella 

 of 4th with a pair of distal spiniform seta 1 , the anterior the 

 stouter and shorter of the two ; tibia not spined above, but armed 

 with a pair below at the distal end, one in front at the distal end 

 and two on the under surface in front. 



Measurements in mm. — $. Total length 33, width of head 9, 

 length of palp 21, of 4th leg 27, patella, tibia, and tarsus of 

 palp 14. 



Loc. Kohat in the Punjab (Batten). 



122. Rhagodes brevipes, Gervais, L'Institut, x, 1842, p. 7<*>; id. Ins. 

 Apt. hi, p. 87, 184 1 (Solpu^a) ; Pocock, Jour. Horn. A. II. Soc. ix, 

 p. 450, t. A, tig. 4, and t. 15. fig. :;. L895 (Rhax). 



2 . Colour. Head black, mandibles deep blackish brown; thoracic 

 segments yellow, lightly Lnfuscate; upper and lateral surface of 

 abdomen coal-black, lower surface deep brown; legs and palpi 

 uniform clear reddish yellow, the tibia, except Eor a narrow pale 

 ringat the base, and the tarsus of the palp almost black, and the tarsus 

 and distal half of tibia of 1st leg deep brown; malleoli with fuscous 

 border. Legs and palpi rather shorter than in R. semiflavus ; width 

 of head equal to patella and three-fourths of tibia of palpus, almost 

 as long as patella and tibia of 4th leg, and as long us patella, tibia, 

 and tarsus of 3rd ; palpus not so much as twice the width of the 



