STEGODYPHUS. 2U9 



208. Stegodyphus mirandus, Pocock, Jour. Bom. X. H. Sue. xii, 



p. 750, 1899. 



5 . Colour : carapace and limbs blackish, clothed with olive- 

 black hairs; hairs on sternum and coxa? paler; abdomen bronze- 

 black above, a rich golden red at the sides and below, with the 

 spinners black. 



<S . Uniformly black all over, with exception of the 2nd, 3rd, 

 and 4th legs and tibia, protarsus, and tarsus of 1st leg, which are 

 bright yellowish red. 



Measurements in mm. — 5 . Total length 20, carapace 8, 1st leg 

 20. 6 • Total length V2, carapace 6, 1st leg 19. 



Loc. Western India : Bombay, Buildup (Phipson) ; Uran 

 (Aitken) ; Poona Ghats ( Wroughton). 



209. Stegodyphus pacificus, sp. a. 



$ • As large as the preceding. Colour : integument yellowish 

 red, clothed with greyish hairs ; legs banded with black ; abdomen 

 with a pair of irregular longitudinal blackish bands above and at 

 the sides, black below, with a yellow band on each side ; man- 

 dibles black at tip. 



J . Legs less strongly banded ; abdomen pale below, ornamented 

 laterally with short transverse reddish stripes. 



Measurements in mm. — $ . Total length 20, carapace 10, 1st leg 

 23. d. Total length 12, carapace 6, 1st leg 21. 



Loc. Western India : Eastern Khandesh (Madan) ; Eastern 

 district of Poona ( Wroughton). 



210. Stegodyphus sarasinorum, Karseh, Berl. ent. Zeits. xxxvi, 



p. 275, pi. x, fig. 4, 1892. 



2 . Much smaller than the preceding, which it closely resembles 

 in colour but has the mandibles clothed with olive- 

 black hairs, 6* • Much smaller than that of S. paci- 

 Jirus, the mandibles covered with olive hairs ; palpal 

 organ relatively larger. 



Measurements in mm. — $. Total length 10, cara- 

 pace 4, 1st leg 95. J. Total length 6, carapace 3, 

 Lsl leg 9. 



Loc. Ceylon: Peradeniya (Sarasin, Fnrman), Palode 



(Yerbury). India: Madatory, Ponmudi and Trivan- 



Stegod'/phus drum in Travancore^Vr/wsuMj; Bangalore (Staunton); 



earasinorum, Chingleput (Jambunathan) ; Bilaspur, E. Khandesh 



*' (Madan); Poona (Wroughton) ; Uran (Aitken). 



It is no doubt this species or the preceding that Simon 



by mistake records as Stegodyphus gregarius, O. P. Cambr., from 



Ghizerat. 



211. Stegodyphus socialis, sp. u. 



$. Colour: carapace black, with lateral border and cephalic 

 region clothed with grey hairs ; mandibles black, with a transverse 



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