256 OXYOPID.E. 



$. Colour: carapace green, sparsely spotted; clypeus with a 

 pair of dark lines running from the anterior eyes ; mandibles 

 with a few spots at the base of the setal pores towards the inner 

 side in front and sometimes with one or two forming an imperfect 

 line externally ; legs yellow, densely spotted with black ; femora 

 often banded with red below ; abdomen a rich grass-green, 

 indistinctly banded above and below. Vulva with its piriform 

 sclerites transversely truncate behind. 



d . Palpi very long ; femur arched, tibia about twice as long as 

 patella ; external appendix of organ abruptly clavate at tip and 

 armed near the middle with a distinct conical tubercle. 



$ . Total length up to about 15 mm., carapace 5, 1st leg 30. 

 c? . Carapace 4, 1st leg 36. 



Loc. Ceylon : Trincomali and Andankalai (Yerbury). India : 

 Madras, Pondichery, Chingleput (Jambunatlian) ; Ponmudi and 

 Madatory in Travancore (Ferguson) ; Ootacamund (Hampson) ; 

 Calcutta (Stoliczka). 



302. Peucetia graminea, sp. n. 



? Peucetia viridana, Simon, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1897, p. 290 (not of 

 Stoliczka). 



5 . Nearly resembling the preceding in colour, but the clypeus 

 with a very distinct lateral band and the mandibles with distinct 

 anterior dark band ; sternum often with median black band. Vulva 

 with its sclerites posteriorly narrowed and separated by an angular 

 space. 



<S . Palpi a little shorter than in P. viridana, the external 

 appendix longer, mesially geniculate, and apically less abruptly 

 clavate. 



$. Total length 15 mm., carapace 4-5, 1st leg 24. J.Carapace3, 

 1st leg 26. 



Loc. Western India : Pulsar in Guzerat (Wroughton) ; ? Karachi. 



303. Peucetia prasina, Thorett, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxv, pp. 10 & 325, 



1887 : viridana, Simon, Ann. Mus. Genova, xx, p. 326, 1884 (not of 

 Stoliczka). 



Differs from all the preceding species in being tolerably uniform 

 greenish, not lined or spotted with black ; the anterior femora 

 reddish and varied with pale lines. Palp of male short, the 

 patella not twice as long as broad, and nearly as long as the tibia, 

 which is a little shorter than the tarsus. 



Total length ( 5 ) about 13 mm. 



Loc. Burma: Minhla (Comotto). 



304. Peucetia procera, Thorett, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxv, p. 321, 1887- 



$ . Pesembling P. graminea in colour, but differing in having 

 the plates of the vulva less acuminate behind and separated 

 posteriorly by a much shallower excision. 



Total length .14 mm., carapace 4, 1st leg 25. 



Loc. Burma: Kangoon (Oates) ; Me-tan-ja (Fea). 



