IQ15.] K. NARAYAN: Ant-like Spiders. 403 
fangs are of a deeper colour. ‘The legs are yellowish. Dorsally, 
the abdomen is covered with two chitinous pieces which bear 
some resemblance to the pieces of a carapace. The anterior piece 
occupies a little more than one-fourth of the abdomen and the 
posterior, which is larger, covers the rest of it. It is shining and 
olivaceous dorsally but white ventrally. It is sparsely covered 
with white hairs dorsally but thickly on its ventral side. 
Myrmarachne manducator, Westwood. (7) 
(Plate xxxi, fig. 7-) 
Salticus manducator, Westwood, Mag. de Zool., 1841, pl. 1. 
Salticus luridus, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1885, p. 453. 
Ascalus manducator, Thorell, Spiders of Burma, 1895, p- 323. 
There is one specimen of this species in the collection sent by 
Mr. Mackenzie from Siripur, Saran (Chapra) in Bihar. It has 
already been recorded from Singapore and Tharawaddy (Burma). 
Westwood gives its locality as “‘ India septentrionali.’’ 
The only contribution I have made is a diagram of the ¢ 
palpus (pl. xxxii, fig. 7) which is not found in the literature cited. 
Myrmarachne paivae, sp.nov. (co) 
(Plate xxxil, fig:"8)) 
This new species is described from a specimen collected by 
Mr. Paiva at Katihar in the Purnea district (Bihar). It is one 
of the largest ant-like spiders in the Indian Museum collection. 
Measurements. 
Total length 81 mm. 
Cephalothorax : length 4 mm.; width 2 mm.; cephalic 
eee ae part 1'7 mm. ; thoracic part 2°3 mm. 
The cephalothorax is moderately high; the cephalic part is 
only a little higher than the thoracic. There is a constriction 
separating the cephalic from the thoracic 
part, which cuts much more deeply into 
the sides than dorsally. The thoracic part 
is distinctly longer than the cephalic and 
has a hump which slopes abruptly behind. 
The cephalic part is rounded dorsally and 
laterally and, being rather short, gives a 
rounded appearance asa whole. The quad- 
rangle of eyes is one-fourth wider than long, 
wider behind than in front and occupies less Fe as pe 
than one-third of the cephalothorax. The jy, Qrachne_ pir k eagles 
anterior eyes are in a recurved row and the nov., from above. 
middle row is nearer the first than the third. 
The dorsal eyes are just a little larger than the lateral and are placed 
on the side of the cephalothorax. 
