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Type, C. yrubei, Keys. 



Distribution. Mediterranean, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian 

 Regions. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



a. Abdomen not pointed behind, black with yellow 



lateral ring C. cinyulata, p. 229. 



b. Abdomen pointed behind, mostly yellow. 



a 1 . Abdomen with black patch below ; vulva 



triangular C. inccqualis, p. 229. 



b\ Abdomen not black below ; vulva quadrate . C. raniceps, p. 229. 



250. Cyrtarachne raniceps, sp. n. 



? Cvrtarachne perspicillata, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. xxxvi, p. 278, 

 1892 (not of Doleschall). 



2 . Carapace and abdomen ochre-yellow, scantily clothed with 

 pale hairs : abdomen a brighter more lemon-yellow above, testaceous 

 beneath, the shoulder prominences amber at the tip, partially 

 surrounded at the base by darker and paler lines. Abdomen one- 

 fourth wider than long, triangular, broadest in its anterior half, 

 where it runs out laterally into a large smooth conical prominence, 

 the area between the prominences tolerably even. Vulva with 

 scape in the form of a short, narrow, subquadrate tubercle. 



Length of abdomen 7 mm., width 9. 



Loc. Ceylon (Barnes). 



251. Cyrtarachne inaequalis, Thorell, Spiders of Burma, p. 201, 1896. 



$ . Nearly allied to the preceding, hut with the ventral surface 

 of the abdomen black behind the epigastric fold, and the fore part 

 of its lateral surface bulging out and furnished with a dark 

 •coloured patch beneath the conical prominence. Scape of vulva 

 triangular at base, apically pointed. 



Length of abdomen 8 mm., width 11. 



Loc. Burma: Tounghoo and Tharrawaddy (Oates). 



252. Cyrtarachne cingulata, Thorell, Spiders nf Burma,?. 202, 1895 



$ . Carapace and legs deep brown ; abdo- 

 men black, with a broad yellow ring nar- 

 rowly interrupted below round its lateral 

 extremities. Abdonn n twice as broad as long, 

 Fig 75 l — Cyrtarachne wide lv rounded posteriorly. Vulva with sub- 

 cinyuiata, % , x 2. triangular scape. 



Length of abdomen 5, width 10 mm. 

 Loc. Burma : Bangoon (Oates). 



