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coloured, with the legs banded and mottled a^ in H.pantherina; 



abdomen banded with white below. Carapaa as long a* patella 



and tibia of 1st leg, but distinctly shorter than patella and tibia and 

 than protarsus ot 4th : eyes of anterior line very unequal in >iz •. 

 medians nearly twice the diameter of the laterals, their inferior 

 edges in a straight line. Vulva consisting of a plate triangularly 

 pointed behind and forming an archway over the cavity. 



Measurement* in mm. — Total length II, carapace 45, 1st leg 14, 

 4th 20. 



Loc. Western India: E. Khandesh (Madan) and E. Poona 

 ( Wroughton ) ; Bangalore ( Staunton). 



292. Hippasa agelenoides, Simon, Ann. Mus. Geneva, xx. p. -;34. 1884 

 (Pirata) : ThoreU, Spider* of Burma, p. 218. 1895 | Hippasa). 



In size, length of limbs, &c. nearly resembling the preceding; 

 darker in colour ; abdomen with a narrow black band on ea h side 

 below. Eyes of anterior line more nearly equal, medians at most 

 a little larger than the laterals, with their inferior edges standing 

 much higher. Vulva forming a vertical archw ay a> in H.pisaurma, 

 but the posterior border of the arch transversely truncate. 



Length up to about 10 mm., carapace 5, 1st leg 15, 4th 20. 



Loc. Burma: Bangoon, Tharrawaddy (Oa&es), Minhla (Comotto). 

 Also recorded by Simon, but perhaps erroneously, from the Konkan 

 and Dehra Dun. 



293. Hippasa holmerae. ThoreU, Spiders of Burma, p. 21*. 18 



A small paler-coloured species, with the legs not banded; recog- 

 nizable from all the foregoing by having the plate of the vulva 

 produced posteriorly into a long, backwardly-directed tongue-like 

 process. Total length s mm. 



Loc. Burma: Tharrawaddy (Gate*). Also Singapore. 



The following species are unknown to me : — 



Hippasa greenaUia, Blackball. A. M.N. II. i-'iixix. p. 387, IS ~ 

 ( Lycosa ». from Meerut, Agra, or D?ihi. Recorded by Simon 

 From Matheran and Karachi, and by Karsch from Pera- 

 deniya &c., in Ceylon. 



Hippasa partita, 0. P. Cambridge, P.Z.S. L876, p. 599 (2Vo- 

 chosa), From Alexandria. Recorded by Simon from Karachi. 



Genus OCYALE, And. 



Ocyale, Audoum, in Sav. Descr. JEgypte, Arach. p. 149, 1 32 Simon, 

 Hist. Nat. Aratgn. ii. p. :'<\~>. 1898. 



Allied to Lycosa, hut with the -*>ril leg Blightly longer than the 

 181 : quadrangle of posterior eves much wider behind, as in Hipp 



