ARGYROEPEIIU. 



215 



Total length 10 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon. India : Chingleput (Jambunathan), "Uran (Aitken), 

 Dekkan (Simon). Calcutta (Stoliczka). Burma : Moulmein (Oates), 

 Bhamo (Fea). Andamaus, Celebes, &c. 



219. Tetragnatha geniculata, Ranch, Berl. ent. Zeits. xxxvi, p. 286, 

 1892. V 



Carapace with posterior lateral eyes not prominent ; ocular 

 quadrangle only slightly narrower in front. Mandibles long ; fang 

 strongly geniculate in its distal half, armed near the base with two 

 strong teeth, one inferior, the other external, more basal and 

 projecting forwards. 



Total length 15 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon (Saraain) : Trincomali (Yerbury). India : Uran 

 (Aitken), Poona Ghats ( Wrouyhtou). 



220. Tetragnatha mandibulata, Walck. Ins. Apt. \\, p. 211j 

 1837 : minatoria, Simon, Ann. Hoc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii, p. 83, 1877: 

 leptogmitha, Thorett, Ami. Mus. Genova, x, p. 441, 1877. 



$ . Eyes more widely separated than in T. yenicu- 

 lata. Mandible with fang not strongly geniculate, 

 lightly sinuous, armed with two small teeth, one 

 beneath at the base, the other on the inner side in 

 the basal half. 



<3 . Fang evenly curved at base, straightish, 

 unarmed ; mandible armed above with one shortish 

 apical spiniform tooth. 



Total length about 13 mm. 



Loc. Burma : Bangoon (Oates), Shwegoo Myo 

 (Fea). Nicobar Is.; Indo- and Austro-Malaysia. 



Fig. 67. 

 Tetragnatha 

 maridibulata. 

 $?. (Legs ab- 

 breviated.) 



Genus ARGYROEPEIRA, Emerton. 



Argyroepeira, Emerton. Tr. Conn. Acad, vi, p. 331, I880 ; Simon, 

 Hist. Xat. A rai ;l , 1. i, p. 736, 1894. 



Distinguishable from the succeeding genera by having the maxiUa 

 long, narrow at the base, dilated, and externally angled at the 

 apex, and by the presence of one row or more of bristles on the 

 outer side of the femur of the 4th leg. The abdomen is orna- 

 mented with bauds or spots of silvery pigment. 



Type. A. Jiortorum, Hentz. 



Distribution. Tropical ami subtropical countries. 



The following four may be regarded as representative types of 

 the many species of this genus that inhabit British India ; — 



