SMERINGOPUS. 239 



$. Colour: carapace yellow, with median brown patch and 



brown stripe on clypeus ; legs 



yellow, with brown patella? and 



a brown ring round extremity 



of femora and tibiae ; abdomen 



greyish yellow, ornamented with 



three rows of dusky grey spots. 



Mandible and palpus normal. 



Vulva consisting of a brown, 



thickly horny plate, with the 



posterior border concave. 



cf . Like $ , but with palp very 



thick and mandibles furnished 



externally, with large serrated 



crest 

 Fig. SI.- -Arfema atlanta, J, X 2. ' .' ' , . ,, , _ 



Total length about 8 mm. 

 hoc. Ceylon: Jaffna, Trincomali (Yerbury). India: Travan- 

 core (Ferguson)- Guntakal ; Chingleput (Jamhunathan); Dekkan ; 

 Tanna (Fdie); Meerut ; eastern district of Poona (J rani); 

 E. Khandesh; Karachi (Toivnsend). Burma: Tharrawaddy(Oates). 

 Tropical countries. 



Genus SMERINGOPUS, Simon. 



Smeringopus, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 94 ; id. Hist. Nat. 

 Araign. i, p. 476, 1893. 



Eyes of anterior and posterior line recurved, ocular quadrangle 

 longer than wide, space between posterior medians about twice 

 the diameter of an eye. Abdomen long, narrow, subcylindrical. 

 Sternum broadly truncate behind. 



Type, S. elonijalus, Vinson. 



Distribution. Tropical countries of the world. 



272. Smeringopus elongatus, Vinson, Aran. Reunion, etc. p. 135, 

 t. iii, fig. 5, 1863 : distinctus, O. P. Cambridge, Journ. Linn. Soc., 

 Zool, x, p. 380, t. xi, iigs. 28, 29, 30, 18G9 (Pholcus). 



2 . Colour : carapace yellow, with radiating triangular dark 

 patches ; legs yellow-brown, with pale white band round end of 

 femora and tibia 1 ; abdomen greyish white, ornamented above with 

 a double series of black spots and at the sides with large black 

 patches, ventral surface with a broad reddish-brown median band, 

 divided posteriorly by a pale stripe. 



J . Like 2 i but with palpus much inflated, and the mandible 

 armed in front below with a small tooth. 

 Total length 6 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon. India: Trevandrum (Ferguson), Pondichery, 

 Dekkan. Burma: liangoon, Tharrawaddv, Tniasserim (Oata, 

 Fea). Andaman Islands, lndo- and Austro-Malaysia, and tropical 

 Africa, &c. 



