212 FSECHRIDJE. 



strongly procurved than in P. torvus. Legs much longer than in 

 the latter, 1st leg only a little less than eight times as long as 

 carapace. Abdomen long and subcylindrical. 



Measurements in mm. — Total length 15, carapace 6-5, 1st leg 49, 

 4th 38. 



Loc. Travancore : Ponmudi and Trivandrum {Ferguson). 



Genus FECENIA, Simon. 



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

 Nat. Araign. i, p. 226, 1892. 



Differs from Psechrus in having the head wider, more convex 

 above, and more rounded in front ; the ocular area wider, the 

 anterior medians larger than the laterals, the eyes of posterior line 

 straight, and the ocular quadrangle about square. 



Type, F. angustata, Thorell. 



Distribution. S. India to the Solomon Islands. 



The two British Indian species may be diagnosed as follows : — 



a. 1st leg in female six times as long as cara- 



pace ; vulva divided F. travancoria, p. 212. 



b. 1st leg in female live times as long as cara- 



pace ; vulva undivided F. cylindrata, p. 212. 



216. Fecenia travancoria, Pocock, Joum. Bom. N. H. Soc. xii, p. 750, 



1899. 



5 . Colour : carapace clothed with ashy-grey hairs ; legs with 

 yellowish hairs, femora dark apically, patellar dark, tibia of 3rd and 

 4th pairs biannulate ; abdomen greyish yellow above, black below 

 with a triangular yellow patch ; yellow round vulva and in front of 

 spinners. Carapace with eyes of posterior line slightly procurved, 

 medians separated by a space exceeding twice their diameter. Legs 

 long, first pair about six times as long as carapace. Abdomen not 

 quite twice as long as wide. Vulva marked with two pits sepa- 

 rated by a high longitudinal keel. 



Measurements in mm. — § . Total length 13, carapace 5'3, 1st 

 leg 34. 



Loc. S. India : Madatory in Travancore (Ferguson). 



217. Fecenia cylindrata, Thorell, Spiders of Burma, p. 64, 1895; id. 



Ann. Mus. Genova, xxxvii, p. 263, 1897. 



$ . Distinguishable from the preceding by having the patelhe 

 pale, the eyes of the posterior line lightly recurved, the medians less 

 than twice their diameter apart, the 1st leg about five times as long 

 as carapace, the abdomen more than twice as long as wide, the cri- 

 bellum undivided, and the vulva impressed with a deep undivided pit. 



c?. Smaller than female, 1st leg about eight times as long as 

 carapace. 



Length of $ from 10 to 15 mm. 



Loc. Burma : Tharrawaddy and Eeef Island in the Tavoy 

 Kiver (Oales) ; Bhamo and Palon (Fea). 



