532 Records of the Indian Museum. [VoL. XT, 
collected one evening in September, it appears that during the 
first year its width increases to about 2 mm., during the second 
year to about 25 mm., and during the third to about 3 mm. 
At this period the arms of the male assume their distinctive length, 
and maturity is probably reached. Whether large specimens reach 
their maximum size at the same time, or whether this maximum 
(about 3°5 mm. thorax-breadth) is only reached subsequently, I am 
unable to say. . 
In Phrynichus ceylonicus, variety pusillus, and probably in 
other Phrynichinae also, the period of growth appears to be about 
the same ; but the difference between the one-year-old specimens 
(thorax-width about 4 mm.), which are of a chequered green and 
yellow colour with conspicuously banded legs, and the much larger 
two-year-olds (thorax-width 7-8 mm. as a tule), of darker and 
more uniform colour, is very much more marked than between 
these and the adults, which as a rule are very little larger than 
them. 
SOLIFUGAE. 
C. E. C. Fischer contributes some notes on the habits of 
Galeodes indicus to the Journal of the Bombay Natural History 
Society (XX, pp. 886-7). 
ARANEAE.! 
Miscellaneous. 
An instance of an apparently unprovoked assault by a spider 
on man is given by Cunningham (‘‘ Plaguesjand Pleaures’’ , 
p- 209). The spider was dislodged with difficulty, but no after 
effects of the bite are recorded. 
A spider’s web suspended from a beam, and apparently kept 
taut only by the weight of a stone over four feet from the ground, 
is recorded by Sawrey-Cookson (J. Savawak Mus., I, p. 123). 
Aviculariidae.? 
Wood-Mason’s account of the discovery of stridulating organs 
in a member of this family—Chilobrachys (‘‘ Mygale”’) stridulans— 
is recorded in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 
1875 (p. 197). It has been reprinted in the Annals and Magazine 
of Natural History ([4] XVII, p. 96). A more detailed account is 
to be found in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of 
London (1877, pp. 281-2, pl. vii). In view of the fact that the 
stridulating organs of C. /umosus appear to be of a more primitive 
type than those of C. stvidulans (J.A.S.B. [n.s.] X, pp. 416-417, 
pl. xxi, figs. 5-6) I noticed with interest when at Kalimpong that, 
! See also Workman, “ Malaysian Spiders ’' (Belfast, 1896). 
2 Theraphosidae, Pocock, Fauna of British India, Arachnida. I have 
followed Simon's classification and nomenclature (Histoive Naturelle des Araig- 
nées, | and II, Paris 1892 and 1897) on account of its completeness. 
