DIAGNOSES OF SOME NEW INDIAN ARACHNIDA. 749 



pad on 3rd ; tarsal pads of 2nd, 3rd and 4tli divided by a very broad 

 band of setae and present only at the sides of the segments. 



Total length '11 mm., carapace 13, 1st leg 29, 4:th 33. 



Locality, — Matheran {Bomhay Nat. Hist. Soc.^. 

 Genus Plesiophrictus, gen. nov. 



Thoracic fovea transverse, straight ; eyes of anterior line slightly 

 procurved. Sternal sigilla marginal. Legs spined, a few on the 

 anterior tibi^ and protarsi ; many on the posterior pairs ; protarsal 

 scopulae scanty on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd legs, absent on 4th ; tarsal scopulas 

 of 3rd and 4th divided by band of setse. Tibia of anterior leg armed 

 v?ith a strong inferior spur and a smaller tuberculifonn spur above it on 

 the inner side. 



Tyj:)e. — P, millardi. 



Plesiophrictus millardi, sp. n. 



Colour of carapace and legs a tolerably uniform mouse-brown, 

 except those clothing the upperside of the protarsus of the 1st leg, 

 which are snow-white. Carapace about as long as patella plus tibia of 

 1st and of 4th legs. Legs 4, 1 , 2, 3 in lengih, 4th a little longer than 

 1st, tibia of Ist incrassate distajly. Spine of palpal organ broad at 

 base, filiform apically a^d spirally twisted. 



Total length 12 mm., carapace 6. 



Locality, — Matheran {W. S. Millard). 



Plesiophrictus tenuipes, sp. n. 



9 . Colour as in the foregoing, but anterior protarsi not white above. 

 Carapace slightly less in length than patella plus tibia of 4th, and 

 slightly exceeding those of 1st ; its width about equal to protarsus of 

 4th. Legs 4, 1, 2 and 3 in length, 4th much longer than 1st and 

 scarcely thinner, nearly three times as long as carapace. 



Total length 16 mm., carapace 7, 1st leg 16, 4th 20. 



Locality. — Kandy in Ceylon (CoZ. Yerhury). 



Plesiophrictus CGllinus, sp. n. 

 $ . Eesembling P. tenuipes in colour, but differing in the pro- 

 portionate length and strength of the legs, the 1st leg being considerably 

 stouter than the 4th and only a little shorter than it ; the 2nd consider- 

 ably longer than the 3rd, and the 4th less than twice-aud-a-half times as 

 long as the carapace. 



Total length 18 ima,-> carapace 8"5, 1st leg 19, 4th 20. 



Locality, — Yercaud in the Shevaroy Hills (J. R. Henderson). 



