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Family CTENIYID^. 

 Genus Acanthodon. 

 Acanthodon opifexj sp. n. 

 Nearly allied to A. crassus, Sim., but darker in colour, the head- 

 palpi and front legs being deep fuscous, and no red tint observable 

 upon the appendages. Area of carapace behind ocular tubercle more 

 elevated than in A. crassus ; but with the median ocular tubercle flat 

 along the top, not higher in front than behind as in A. crassus; anterior 

 laterals more prominent than in the latter species. 

 Total length 20 mm., carapace 10. 

 Localitfj. — Bombay (H. M. Phipson). 



The only known specimen of this species was received alive in its 

 trap-door nest. 



Family ERESID^. 

 Genus Stegodyphus, Sim. 

 Stegodyplius mirandus, sp. n. 

 $. Colour. — Carapace, mandible, palpi, legs and mouth-parts black, 

 clothed with olive-black hairs ; sternum with narrow dark border and 

 marked with two parallel bands of yellowish-grey hairs ; abdomen testa- 

 ceous, clothed with yellowish hairs ; spinners and anal tubercle black. 

 Total length 20 mm., carapace 8. 



$. Colour. — Abdomen black ; tibia, protarsus and tarsus of 1st leg 

 and the whole of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th legs bright red, the coxa and 

 trochanters alone being blackish-brown. 

 Total length 12 mm, carapace 6. 

 Locality, — Bombay (Bombay Nat. Hist. tSoc). 

 Family PSECHRID^.. 

 Genus Feoenia, Thor. 

 Fecenia travancoria, sp. n. 

 Closely related to the Burmese species F. cylindrata, Thorell, but 

 with the eyes more widely spaced, those of the posterior line being 

 straight or slightly procurved. Depression of vulva completely divided 

 by a high longitudinal keel, the posterior border deeply and angularly 

 emarginate. (In F. cylindrata the depression of the vulva is undivided.) 

 Total length 13 mm., carapace 5'3. 

 Locality. — Madatory in Travancoro (H. Ferguson). 

 First record of the genus Fecenia from India. 



