ARACHNIDA. 803 



Locality. Minikoi; Inguradu, N. Mahlosmadulu ; Mahrus and Turadu, S. Mahlosmadulu ; 

 and Goidu, Goifurfehendu. Common in India and Ceylon. 



Family Thomisidae. 



Genus Thomisus Latr. 



19. Thomisus pugilis Stolicka (PI. LXVI. fig. 5). 



Thomisus pugilis Stolicka, Journ. As. Sue. Bengal, xxxvill. p. 246, 1869. 



Locality. Inguradu, N. Mahlosmadulu ; Madu, Hedufuri and Turadu, S. Mahlosmadulu ; 

 and Goidu, Goifurfehendu. Widely disti'ibuted throughout India. 



The pearl-like granulation of the face is very characteristic of this species. 



Family Clubionidae. 



Genus Olios C. Koch. 



20. Olios lamarcki (Latr.). 



Thomisus lamarckii Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. i. p. 113, 1806. 



Locality. Minikoi; Fainu, N. Mahlosmadulu; Turadu, S. Mahlosmadulu; Hulule, Male; 

 and Midu, Addu. Previously known from Madagascar, Ceylon and Southern India. 



Genus Heteropoda Latr. 



21. Heteropoda regia (Fabr.) {= H. venatoria of most recent authors). 



Locality. Minikoi ; and Inguradu, N. Mahlosmadulu. This species has been artificially 

 distributed throughout the tropics by the agency of shipping. 



22. Heteropoda atollicola sp. n. (PL LXVI. fig. 6 a — c). 



$ . Colour. Carapace yellowish-brown, marked with blackish patches, the latter clothed 

 with blackish hair; a posterior transverse pale stripe and a large pale central spot on 

 clypeus ; mandibles black, scantily clothed with pale hairs above ; legs and palpi yellowish- 

 brown, spotted and banded with blackish-grey patches above ; dorsal side of abdomen mouse- 

 brown, mottled with blackish patches above ; ventral surface testaceous ; sternum and coxae 

 ochraceous. Carapace a little longer than wide, its dorsal surface horizontal, as long as tibia 

 of 2nd leg, and as femur of 3rd or 1st. Posterior median eyes less than a diameter apart, 

 more than a diameter from the posterior laterals, eyes of anterior line nearly straight by 

 their upper edges, the laterals standing only a little higher, diameter of medians a little 

 exceeding radius of laterals, the latter rather less than their diameter above the edge of 

 the clypeus. Legs 2, 4, 1, 3, the 2nd rather less than four times the length of the carapace, 

 measured from the base of the femur. Vulva with the two lobes meeting posteriorly in 

 the middle line and circumscribing a longitudinally elliptical area bearing a narrow median 

 longitudinal crest (fig. 6 c). 



(/•. Like the $ in colour except that the mandibles are yellow. Smaller and with 

 considerably longer legs. Carapace a little shorter than tibia of 3rd leg. Palpus with tibial 

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