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In the first pair of copulatory feet the crest upon the second segment 

 runs, along the inner edge, and in the second pair the immovable digit 

 is wider and has no deep notch at its base. 



Length of 9 31 mm. ; of $ 22. 



Locality.— Coimbatore, Animallai Hills, 4,700 feet {W. Davison), 

 Arthrosphcera fumosa, Pocock. (PI. A, fig. 8.) 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) XVI, p. 412 (1895). 



Colour pale olivaceous, the posterior half of the tergites, except of the 

 second and anal, smoky black ; head, nuchal-plate, and 2nd tergite, 

 piceous, the latter and the rest of the segments mottled with pale 

 blotches and black spots ; legs and antennae deep olive-green, basal seg- 

 ment of former pale. 



$. Resembling A, Davisoni, but differing as follows: — Anterior 

 portion of tergites rugose and punctured ; posterior portion smooth and 

 highly polished. Second tergite polished, at most minutely punctu- 

 late ; lamina as in A, Davidsonij but the marginal thickening much 

 smaller. A7ial tergite densely and closely punctured, with anterior 

 angular pit. 



Vulva as in figure. - 



Length 35 mm.; width 16. 



Locality.— Goimbatore, 4,700 feet ( W. Davison). 



ArthrosphcBra Dalyi^ Pocock. (PI. A, figs. 9-9a.) 



Ann. Nat. Hist. (6), XVI, p. 412 (1895). 



Colour a deep olive-brown or green, the posterior border of the 

 tergites sometimes reddish ; head, nuchal-plate and 2nd tergite 

 piceous ; antennae and legs green, the former with the two basal seg- 

 ments ochraceous. 



Head., nuchal-plate^ and 2nd tergite polished, smooth, the first 

 densely punctured below ; lamina of second as in A, Ilendersoni, but 

 the marginal thickening smaller. The other terga pubescent and punc- 

 tulate in front as in A. Henderson!^ perfectly, smooth and polished in 

 their hinder half ; anal tergite punctured and pubescent above ; margin 

 not grooved but furnished with a small notch ; the inner crest single, 

 and rather longer than that on the tergite in front of it. 



Length 3Gmm., width 29. 



Locality. — Lone Cottage, Palnai Hills, 6,000 feet (J. R. Henderson); 

 also some smaller ( ? younger) specimens perhaps of the same species, 



