248 



LYCOSID^. 



286. Thalassius phipsoni, F. Cambridge, 

 P. Z. S. 1898, p. 31, t. iv, fig. 5. 



2 . Colour : integument covered with 

 olive or greyish-brown pubescence; cara- 

 pace and abdomen ornamented laterally 

 with a white stripe extending from the 

 sides of the head almost to the spinners, 

 and separated from the middle of the 

 lateral border of the carapace by a space 

 equalling its own width. Carapace a 

 little longer than tibia of 1st leg. Legs 

 of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd pairs subequal and 

 much shorter than 4th. Lateral lobes 

 of vulva strongly clavate and in contact 

 posteriorly. 



Measurements in nun. — Total length 

 26, carapace 10, 1st leg 37, 4th 43. 



Loc. Bombay : Mahim and Dorun 

 (Phipson). 



The characters of the following forms, 

 known in Burma only from immature 

 specimens, are doubtful : — 



Thalassius marginellus, Simon, Ami. Mus. 

 Genova, xx, p. 329, 1884 (Titurius) ; 

 id. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, p. 13, 1885. 



Thalassius albocinctus (Dol.), Thorell, 

 Spiders of Burma, p. 227, 1895. 



Fig. 84. 

 Thalamus phipsoni , <j> , x#. 



Genus EUPR0STHEN0PS, Pocock. 



Euprosthenops, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) xix, p. 116, 1897; Simon, 

 Hist. Nat. Araign. u, p. 291, 1898. [Podqphthalma, Capello and 

 recent authors, preoccupied.] 



Carapace low; facial area inclined; ocular quadrangle about 

 equal to clypeus in height, longer than wide, narrowed in front, its 

 posterior eves larger than the anterior ; anterior lateral eyes remote 

 from the rest and elevated, situated on the edge of the clypeus. 

 Tarsi normal. Tang-groove of mandible with 3 posterior teeth. 



Type, I'j. bayoniannus, Br. Capello. 



Distribution. Tropical Africa ; Madagascar; India. 



