MACROTHELE. 



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147. Ischnothele dumicola, sp. n. 



2 . Colour : integument yellowish brown, clouded with black 

 and covered with greyish hairs ; sternum dark ; abdomen orna- 

 mented above on each side with a row of six pale, obliquely set 



spots or short stripes. Carapace 

 as long as patella and tibia of 

 4th leg, and as patella, tibia, and 

 half the protarsus of 1st leg. 



c? . Smaller than £ ; s P ur on 

 tibia of ] st leg external, stout, 

 nearly straight, pointed ; protarsus 

 arcuate in its basal half. Palp 

 with tibia a little inflated ; spine of 

 palpal organ stout, straight at base, 

 filiform and curved apically. 



Measurements in mm. — § . Total 

 length 9, carapace 4, 1st leg 8, 

 4th leg 11. 6. Total length 6 r 

 carapace 3*5, 1st leg 7*5, 4th 

 leg 10-5. 

 Lot: Western India : Poona ( Wroughtori). 



Fig. 55. 

 Ischnothele dumicola, $ , X 2. 



Genus MACROTHELE, Ausserer. 



Macrothele, Ausserer, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxi, p. 181, 1871 ; 

 Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. i, p. 184, 18! 12. 



Differs from the preceding genus in having the thoracic fovea 

 straight or recurved, the labium studded with spicules, the tarsi 

 of the legs armed with spines, and the terminal segment of the 

 posterior spinners shorter than the 1st and 2nd taken together, 

 straight, and not flexible and sinuous. 



Type, Macrothele calpetana (Walck.). 



Distribution. Mediterranean Region ; Eastern Oriental Kegion 

 and New Zealand. 



148. Macrothele maculata, Thorell, Ann. Mm. Genova, xxviii, p. 409, 



1890 (Diplura) ; id. op. tit. xxxvii, p. 184, 1897 (Macrothele). 



5 . Colour blackish; abdomen spotted below and banded abm . 

 as in the foregoing species. Carapace as long as patella and tibia 

 of 4th or of 1st leg. 



Measurements in mm. — Total length 15, carapace 7*25, 1st Leg 

 21, 4th leg 23. 



hoc. Burma: Yado and Plapoo in Tenassei-im (^<")- 



