PBUCETIA. 255 



Hunting Spiders, spinning no web, living amongst grass ami 

 other plants and fastening their cocoons to the leaves or stalks. 



The following genera are represented in India : — 



a. Eyes of the posterior line lightly procurved; fang- 



groove of mandible unarmed Peucetia, p. 255. 



b. Eyes of posterior line very strongly procurved; 



fang-groove of mandible weakly aimed .... Oxyopks*. 



Genus PEUCETIA, Thorell. 



Peucetia, Thorell, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal. (3) vii,p. 37, 1869 ; Simon. 

 Hist. Nat. Araign. ii, p. 378, 1898. 



Characters as above. 



Type, /'. viridis, Blackwall. 



Distribution. Tropical and temperate countries. 



Synopsis of Indian Species f. 



a. Carapace and limbs not varied with black 



spots and lines P. prasina, p. 256. 



b. Carapace and limbs varied with black spots 



and lines. 

 a 1 . Clypeus with obsolete lateral stripe ; 



mandibles spotted in front J', riridana, p. 255. 



ft 1 . Clypeue with distinct lateral stripe ; 

 mandibles with distinct median stripe. 

 a'-. Plates of vulva posteriorly produced 



and acuminate P. yraminea, p. 256. 



b 2 . Plates of vulva not acuminate pos- 

 teriorly P. procera } p. 250. 



301. Peucetia viridana, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxviii, p. 220, t. xx, 

 liir. 1, 18(59 (Spliasus) : nigropunctata, Simon, Ann. Mas. Genova 

 xx, ]>. 3<>r>, 1884 (Peucetia). 



Fig. 80. — Peucetia viridana, x 2. 



* This genus, which is omitted Prom the present volume, ia represented bv 



many species, mostly of small size, and recognizable by then- varied colouring 

 of silvery wbite and darker stripes. 



t Peucetia eUqam, Blackwall ( \. M. N. E.(3) riv, p.89, 1864 (Panthea)) from 

 the " East Indies." differs from those here described i„ having a black band on 

 the lower side of the abdomen. Probably it belongs to the genus Oxyopet 



