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PLATOR1DM. 



Family PLATORIDjE. 



Body very flat, legs completely laterigrade ; carapace much 

 wider than long, head narrow. Mandibles weakly armed, labium 

 longer than wide, inaxillae directed obliquely inwards. Sternum 

 much wider than long, not narrowed behind. Coxa? of legs long, 

 the posterior widely separated, 1st leg shorter than the rest, 2nd 

 longest ; no scopulae or ungual tufts ; anterior legs armed with 

 erect spiniform bristles ; claws two in number and toothed. 

 Spinners short, those of anterior pair widely separated, the inter- 

 mediate pair occupying the space between them. 



Distribution. North India; China; S.America. 



Genus PLATOR, Simon. 



Plator, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) x, p. 105, 1880 ; Hist. Nat. 

 Araign. ii. p. 18, 1897. 



Characters as above. 

 Type, P. insolcns, Sim. 

 Distribution. N. India : China. 



343. Plator indicus, Simon, Mem. Soc. Zoo!. France, x, p. 256, 1897 

 ( J ) : ixodinus, Pocock, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xii, p. 753, 1899 ( $ ). 



5 . Colour : carapace and legs reddish yellow ; carapace black 

 about the eyes, and with narrow black marginal line ; posterior legs 

 with black line running down the middle of patella, tibia, and 

 protarsus ; abdomen olive-green, paler below, darker round edge. 



Fig. 89.— Plator indicus, £ , x2. 



Eyes of anterior line distinctly separated ; anterior legs furnished 

 below with many spiniform setae, stronger on the protarsus than 

 elsewhere. Vulva consisting of a large piriform horny plate, 

 furnished posteriorly with a pair of crescentically-curved darker 

 contiguous thickenings. 



3 . Much like $ , but with anterior eyes larger and almost in 

 contact. 



Total length about 1 mm. 



hoc. Himalayas and Western India: Poonaand Konkan (Simon) j 

 Konain, 7800 ft. ; Mundali, 8000 ft. (Olettdow) ; Dalhousie (Towns- 

 end). 



