174 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Fakes vcd-mahogaiay colour ; project at an angle of 20^, 

 somewhat tumid at base in front, fore-third directed upwards 

 and outwards, about equal in breadth to the femur, and in 

 length to the tarsus of a leg of first pair ; 3 teeth on outer 

 row. 



Maxillce chocolate-brown, apices light ; long, taper some- 

 what to base, obliquely truncated on inferior side, superior 

 side rounded, moderately dilated, rather inclined over labium, 

 which is subquadrate, perceptibly curved outwards, less than 

 one-half length of maxillsD, transverse indentation; colour of 

 raaxillse. 



Sternuvi yellowish ; few black hairs ; cordate, eminences 

 opposite coxte. 



Abdomen oviform, flatly convex above; hairs pale-yellow, 

 somewhat sparse ; ground - colour pale olive - green , suffused 

 with moderate-sized, creamy-coloured, lake-spotted flecks ; 

 integument more or less stained with lake ; folium lyrate, fore- 

 half broad, ma.rgins undulating, dark-brown ; posterior half 

 tapers to spinners, compressed to about one-half width ; of a 

 slightly deeper shade and less flecked than lateral margins ; 

 between and projecting somewhat beyond the four reddish- 

 lake impressed spots is a hastate figure, apex directed back- 

 wards, haft prolonged round base, free from flecks, creamy- 

 white border ; dorsal field displays 8 dark-brown, transverse 

 marks, two anterior pairs subtriangular, placed on posterior 

 side of last pair of impressed dots ; second pair partially 

 encloses apex of hastate figure ; in centre of third bar — which, 

 like the fourth and fifth, is drawn out, apices curved, to 

 margin of folium — is a creamy spot ; two or three posterior 

 bars black-brown, or reddish, more or less obliterated in 

 different examples ; lateral margins longitudinally streaked 

 with black-brown dashes ; ventral shield defined — except at 

 fore-end — by a broad margin of pale-yellow metallic flecks 

 showing small lake spots ; centre of shield displays few flecks 

 and brown stains. 



Femina. — Ceph.-th., long, 4; wide, 3. Abd., long, G; 

 wide, 5. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 20, 14, 13-2, 8 mm. 



Cephalotliorax reddish amber-colour, ocular area reddish 

 dorsal figure mottled with brown at base, breadth of hind-row 

 of eyes, fore-third incurved, tapers from end of curves, mode- 

 rately to limit of caput, apex acute, dips into fovea ; displays 

 two large yellowish spots in line with its greater breadth ; 

 brownish stains on lateral margins of caput ; hairs light, 

 sparse ; pars cephalica somewhat aplanate above, roundly 

 truncated ; lateral index equals breadth of hind-row of eyes, 

 facial scarcely one-half width of thorax ; chijjens moderately 

 retreating, depth visibly shorter than breadth of a fore-central 



