260 Records of the Indian Museum. (VoL. XI, 
submitted to me the specimens he has been able to collect in 
Ceylon during his tours on behalf of the Colombo Museum; to Mr. 
T. Bainbrigge Fletcher of Pusa ; and to Mrs. Drake of Serampore. 
Family LIPHISTIIDAE. 
Genus Liphistius, Schiddte. 
This interesting genus is represented in our collection by a 
single damaged specimen from Moulmein in Lower Burma. 
Family AVICULARIIDAE. 
: Subfamily CTENIZINAE. 
Group PACHYLOMEREAE. 
Genus Conothele, Thorell. 
Two female or immature specimens were collected by Theo- 
bald in the Nicobars. These differ from C. birmanica, Thorell, in 
having the posterior series of eyes procurved, and in having more 
teeth on the labium; but they may perhaps belong to some Malay- 
sian species. 
Group IDIOPEAE. 
I am unable to follow Simon’s final revision of this group 
(Vol. II, pp. 888-890) except as regards the union of Acanthodon 
with Idiofs, a union the necessity of which is supported by the 
occurrence in our collection of the male of an Indian species with 
the eyes of the second group closely crowded and. strongly 
unequal. 
Simon separates the American genera of Idiopeae from those 
of the Old World on the grounds that in the former the eyes of 
the posterior line,.seen from above, are lightly procurved whereas 
in the latter they are lightly recurved, the area occupied by the - 
four median eyes being moreover parallel-sided in the former and 
broader behind than before in the latter. 
In all our specimens, however, and apparently also in those 
described in the ‘‘ Fauna,’’ the posterior line-of eyes is distinctly 
procurved and never recurved, the posterior margins of the large 
laterals never being behind, and the anterior margins of these 
eyes always being in front, of the corresponding margins of the 
smaller posterior median eyes. And the area occupied by the four 
median eyes is not always even slightly wider behind than before. 
Further, when these characters are disregarded, and an 
attempt is made to put our three specimens of the group into 
the Old World genera which would otherwise receive them, only 
one of the three (Heligmomerus sp.) is found to fit. The other 
two resemble Gorgyrella in the structure of the chelicerae, and 
Pachyidiops and Titanidiops im the shape of the lahium, differing 
markedly from all of these and from one another in their com- 
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