DIAGNOSES OF SOME NEW INDIAN ARACHNIDA. 753 



Genus Pandercetes, L. Koch. 

 Pandercetes decipiensj sp, n. 

 Coloured above so as to match the lichen-covered bark of trees, 

 greyish and mottled Nvith brown ; sides of legs strongly tufted with 

 hairs; coxa, maxilla, labium and sternum shining black; femora of 1st 

 and 2nd legs orange-yellow below. 

 Total length 16 mm., carapace 7. 

 Locality. — Punduloya in Ceylon (E. E. Green), 

 Pandercetes celatus, sp, n. 

 9 , Dorsal surface covered with hairs of a greyish tint, forming 

 whitish plumes on the sides of the legs, as in P. decipiens ; but the 

 undersides of the femora of the anterior two pairs of legs a rich blackish- 

 brown, tinged with bronze, the underside of the tibise of the 3rd and 

 4th legs similarly coloured. 



Total length about 22 mm., carapace 8. 

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

 Genus Stasina. 

 Stasina nigropiata, sp. n. 

 $ . Closely allied to S. nalandica, Karsch, but differing at least in the 

 form of the tibial apophysis of the palp, which is large, long and blade- 

 like, and furnished with an inferior lobate expansion. In S. nalandica the 

 apophysis is thick, and has its apex produced inwards into a sharp tooth. 



Total length 9*5 mm., carapace 4-5. 

 Locality. — Punduloya in Ceylon {E. E. Greeii). 

 Family PLATORID^. 

 Genus Plator, Sim. 

 Plator ixodinus, sp. n. 

 9 . Resembling P. indicus, Simon, from Poena, in having a narrow 

 black line bordering the carapace, and a longitudinal black stripe 

 running down the posterior legs, but differing essentially in the 

 disposition of the eyes of the anterior Hue, which in P. indicus are said 

 to be almost in contact, whereas in P» ixodinus they are separated by 

 a very appreciable distance. 

 Total length 10 mm. 



Locality.— Kon^m, 7,800 ft., and Mundali, 8,000 ft., in the Himalayas 

 [F. Gleadoio). 



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