384 Fecords of the Indian Museum. [Vol. Ill, 



were found in the same Vjottle, but they do not differ in structure 

 from the female of D. oatesii. 



Genus Selenocosmia. 



In 1897 Mr. R. I. Pocock ^ instituted a new genus Phlogicllus 

 for a Selenocosmid spider in which the claws of the fourth leg are 

 three in number. This third claw is present, however,'^ in the great 

 majority of the species of Sdenocosmia and Chilobrachys (including 

 the type species of these two genera) and it will be necessary there- 

 fore to abandon the genus Phlogielliis and to regard it as a synonym 

 of Sdenocosmia. The division of the tarsal scopula^ of the legs of 

 all four pairs is mentioned by Mr. Pocock in his description of 

 Phlogiellus, and this character seems peculiar to the species for which 

 the genus was founded. It must be remembered, however, that 

 the structure of the tarsal scopulse varies considerably both in 

 Selenocosmia and Chilobrachys and can not be regarded as a satis- 

 factory generic character. In most of the species belonging to these 

 two genera the tarsi of the fourth legs alone are divided, but in S. 

 stirlingi^ Hogg, the fourth tarsus is entire or very indistinctly 

 divided. Whilst in S. insulana, sp. nov., 5. sarawakensis, C. sericeus, 

 Thorell, and C. suharmatus , Thorell, the tarsal scopulse of both the 

 posterior pairs are divided. 



Selenocosmia honesta, sp. nov. 



cf . Colour. Cephalothorax buff-coloured, appendages russet, 

 the abdomen ochraceous. 



Carapace shorter than patella and tibia of first or fourth legs 

 and almost equalling metatarsus of fourth in length. Anterior row 

 of eyes procurved ; anterior medians a little closer to one another 

 than to the anterior laterals. 



Mandible furnished with long and fine bristles on its outer 

 surface. 



Palp. Numerous long, fine hairs, which are not set so close 

 together as in a typical Chilobrachys are present above the stri- 

 dulatory bacilli. Spine of palpal organ long, curved and rather 

 thick, the point blunt and slightly enlarged (fig. 4). 



Legs 4,1,2, 3. Patella and tibia of first leg a little shorter than 

 the metatarsus and tarsus of fourth and much longer than its patella 

 and tibia. Metatarsi of the three anterior legs scopulate for almost 

 their entire length. Scopula of metatarsus of fourth leg occupying 



' Abhandl. d. Senckenb. natiirf. Ges., xxiii, pp. 595 — 597, pi. xxv (1897). 



2 In searching for this minute unpaired claw it is necessary to remove the 

 ungual tuft on one side and sometimes the pad supporting it also ; great care must 

 be used in doing this as the claw itself is easily destroyed. A third claw is present 

 in the following species — Selenocosmia fuliginea, Thorell, S. himalayana, Voc, S. 

 inermis, .'\iiss., S. javanensis, Walck., S. lanipes, Auss., and in the new species 

 described above; Chilobrachys brevipes, Thorell, C. fumosus. Poc, C. cervinus, 

 Thorell, C. fimbriatus,^ I'oc., C. hardwicki, Poc, C. nitelinus, Kar.sch, C. sericetis, 

 Thorell, C. stridulans, Wood-Mason, C. thorelli, Poc, and C. {Neochilobrachys) 

 suharmatus, Thorell. 



