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tions and kind help given while I was working at the Indian 
Museum. 
Harmochirus [loydii, sp. nov. 
(Plate xxxii, figs. Ia-c.) 
The genus Harmochirus was first described by Simon (Faune 
Arachnologique de 1’Asie Méridionale, Bull. Soc. Zool. de France 
X, 1885, p. 440), who named his species Harmochirus malaccensis. 
Peckham describes another species which he calls’ H. albi-barbis 
(Spiders of the Homalattus Group, Milwaukee, 1895). Still a third 
species has been described by Thorell as H. brachiatus. 
It is a curious fact that in all these descriptions only @ 
spiders have been described. I have nowhere found any descrip- 
tions or diagrams of a female Harmochirus. ‘The present descrip- 
tion is based on a female specimen collected by Major R.E. Lloyd, 
I.M.S., from the Calcutta Medical College compound and preserved 
in the Indian Museum. 
Measurements. 
Total length 3°4 mm. 
Cephalothorax: length I1°4 mm.; width at dorsal eyes 
I'2 mm.; cephalic part I mm. 
Legs 1423. 
The cephalic part is moderately high, but a little lower than 
the abdomen. The thoracic part is very short and is on a sharp 
declivity behind the cephalic part. The eyes of the 2nd row are 
nearer the 3rd than the Ist row. The anterior eyes are directed 
forwards but the middle and dorsal eyes are situated on the sides. 
The interesting point about the chelicerae in this specimen (pl. 
xxxil, fig. 1b) is that, on the inferior margin from the ventral side, 
the right chelicera is fisstdentate and the left is distinctly wnidentate 
(cf. Simon, Hést. Nat. Araign., vol. ii, p. 383), but Simon includes 
this genus in Salticidae fissidentati. The ‘ piéces buccales’ are 
shown in pl. xxxii, fig. 1c, and the shape of the lower lip and the 
maxillary process of the palp are quite different from those of 
H. brachiatus (Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign., vol. ii, p. 867). 
The ist leg has the characteristic shape shown in pl. xxxii, 
fig. 1a, with the femur compressed 
and much dilated, claviform, 
and the tibia disciform and sub- 
i begin 77) globose. There are black stiff 
Mu bristles on both edges of the tibia 
together with three special sharp 
spines dorsally as well as ven- 
trally. The femur of the 2nd leg 
is compressed, while that of the 
3rd leg, as also of the 4th leg, is 
cylindrical. 
The epigynum (text-fig. 1) con- 
sists of two dark-red tubercles 
Text-FiG. 1.—Epigynum of Har- 
mochirus lloydii, sp. nov. 
