200 THERAPHOSIDiE. 



The specimen identified and described by Thorell in 1897 as 

 Musagetes soricinus appears from the leg-measurements to differ 

 specifically from the original soricinus. 



Chilobrachys oculatus, Thorell, Spiders of Burma, p. 13, 1895 

 (Phlogius). 



Based upon a mutilated and doubtfully adult specimen, re- 

 sembling the type of C. soricinus in having the anterior lateral eyes 

 of large size. 



hoc. Arrakan : Akyab (Oates). 



Genus SELENOCOSMIA, Auss. 



Selenocosmia, Ausserer, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 204; 



Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) xv, p. 170, 1895. 

 Phrictus, L. Koch, Arach. Austral.^. 488, 1874 (nom. praeocc). 

 Phlogius, Simon, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vii, p. cxcv, 1887 ; id. Hist. 



Nat. Araiyn. i, p. 146, 1892. 



Closely resembling Chilobrachys, but with the spines on the 

 outer side of the mandible long, setiform, and but little differ- 

 entiated from the oral fringe ; while on the maxilla the cluster of 

 bacilli is large and oval, the bacilli lying several rows deep, and 

 there is no fringe of hairs overhanging the bacilli. 



Type, S. javanensis, Walck. 



Distribution. Himalayas, Burma, thence eastwards and south- 

 wards into Australia. 



Synojisis of Indian Species. 



a. Patellae paler than the rest of the segments 



of the legs S. himalayana, p. 200. 



b. Patella? the same colour as the rest of seg- 



ments of the legs and palpi. 

 a 1 . Tarsal scopula of 4th leg divided ; cluster 



of bacilli on maxilla twice as long as 



broad S. fuliginea, p. 201. 



o 1 . Tarsal scopula of 4th leg undivided ; 



cluster of bacilli on maxilla only a little 



longer than broad S. javanensis, p. 201. 



198. Selenocosmia himalayana, PucocJc, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xii, 

 p. 740, 1899. 



$. Colour: integument blackish ; carapace and patellae covered 

 with greyish-yellow hairs, rest of the leg-segments and abdomen 

 blackish brown. Carapace with head low, a little longer than 

 patella and tibia of 1st and 4th legs ; eyes of anterior line straight. 

 Stridulatiny-bristles on mandible spiniform. Tarsal scopula of 4th 

 leg divided by band of setae ; patella and tibia of 1st and 4th 

 legs about equal. 



