DIAGNOSES OF SOME NEW INDIAN ARACENIDA. 751 



Genus Psechrus, Thor. 

 Psechrus alticeps, sp. n. 

 9 . Easily recognisable from the Ceylon species P. torvus, by having 

 the cephalic region of the carapace narrower, more sharply defined and 

 much higher, and the anterior line of eyes much more strongly pro- 

 curved. The legs are also much longer. 



Total length 15 mm., carapace 6*5, 1st leg 49. 

 Locality. — Ponraudi in Travancore {H. Ferguson). 

 First record of genus Psechrus from India. 



Family HERSILIID^. 

 Genus Tama, Sim. 

 Tama variata, sp. n. 

 9 . Colour. — Carapace brown in middle, blacker at sides, clothed 

 with grey and black hairs ; pale mark on head, red hairs about the eyes, 

 edge of clypeus testaceous, clothed with white hairs ; upper side of 

 abdomen blackish, variegated. Posterior border of vulva produced into 

 a median convex lobe. ^. Smaller than 9, with patellu and tibia of 

 palp unmodified : tibia twice as long as patella. 

 Total length ( 9) 10 mm., (<J) 6. 

 Locality. — Kandy {E. E. Green). 



Family LYCOSID^. 

 Genus Lycosa, Latr. 

 Lycosa phipsoni, sp . n. 

 Allied to the Burmese species L. nigrotihialis, Sim., but with stouter 

 legs and a little differently coloured, the femora of the legs being scarcely 

 paler than the coxse and without an apical fuscous band beneath. More- 

 over, in the female the carapace is longer than the patella and tibia of the 

 4:th leg, and in the male the carapace is equal to the protarsus of the 4tb. 

 Total length 9 20 mm., carapace 10. Total length of $ 19 mm., 

 carapace 10. 



Locality. — Bombay {H. M. Phipson). 



Lycosa wrougJitoni, sp. n. 



$ . Closely allied to the Ceylonese and Indian species L. indugatrix, 



Walck., in having the mandible clothed in front with red hairs and in 



general colour and structure, but differing in the darker colour of the 



anterior femora, the absence of a median white band on the anterior 



