iiippasa. 249 



287. Euprosthenops ellioti, O. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 567, 

 t. lvii, fig. 6 (Podophthalma). 



$ . Colour : carapace pale with a dark band on each side, clothed 

 with silvery-white hairs ; legs clothed with olive-brown hairs 

 varied with white, femora thickly spotted ; tibia? black at base and 

 apex ; abdomen darkish above, with median lanceolate band in 

 front, bordered at the sides with a broad pale band, sides and 

 lower surface covered with golden-yellow hairs, the former speckled 

 with brown. Carapace shorter than tibia of 3rd leg. Leys very 

 long, 4, 1, 2, 3 in length. Abdomen narrowed posteriorly, more 

 than twice as long as broad. 



Measurements in mm. — Total length 21, carapace 7*5, 1st leg 41, 

 4th 46. 



Loc. S. India : Chinglepnt (Jambunathan). 



Genus HIPPASA, Simon. 



Ilippasa, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zoo!. France, x, p. 31, 1885 ; Hist. Nat. 

 Araiyn. ii, p. 326, 1898. 



Differing from Lycosa in having the posterior spinners consider- 

 ably longer than the anterior, the posterior eyes more widely 

 separated, and the eyes of the anterior line a little exceeding those 

 of the second line in width. 



Type, H. ayelenoides, Simon. 



Distribution. Africa; Madagascar; Arabia; British India; 

 Malayasia. 



These Spiders spin a silken thread which expands into a sheet- 

 like snare. 



Synopsis of the principal Indian Species. 



a. Lower surface of abdomen with a thick fringe 



of hair on each side H. pantherina, p. 260. 



I). Lower surface of abdomen not laterally 



fringed. 

 a\ Of large Bize; carapace 8-9 mm. long; pit 



iif vulva exposed. 



a . Pit of vulva semicircular II. lycosina, p. 260. 



b . Pit of vulva transversely elliptical .... H. olivacea, p. 260. 

 b\ Smaller: carapace up to 5 mm.; pit of 

 vulva roofed over. 

 <•'. Plate of vulva produced into a l>>iiL r 



tnugut'-like process II. holmera } p. 251. 



If. Plate of vulva not produced into a long 

 tongue-like process. 

 a*. Process of vulva triangularly pointed 



behind //. pisaurina, p. 260. 



b l . Process of vulva Bquarely truncate 



behind II. agelenoides, p. 261. 



