1915.] F.H. Gravety: Indian Insects, Myriapods, etc. 533 
although the former species behaves like the latter when angry, 
it can only produce a faint rattling sound. The latter is said by 
Wood-Mason to hiss loudly. 
Notes ou the habits of large ‘‘ bird-eating ” spiders, doubtless 
of this family, are contributed by Macpherson and by Morris 
(J.B.N.H.S.1, pp. 28-29, and IV, pp. 69-70). In both cases the 
species is identified as ‘‘ Mygale’’ fasciate, a name now confined 
to a Ceylonese species of Poectlotheria. The subjects of the former 
note lived in burrows, so probably belonged to the genus Chilo- 
brachys. The genus of the subjects of the latter note may pos- 
sibly have been Poecilotheria, but the species was an Indian one. 
Pocock (J.B.N.H.S. XIII, pp. 121-2) discusses notes on the 
habits of ‘‘ bird-eating’’ spiders, and records observations showing 
that the genus Poecilotheria is arboreal. Annandale (Vem. A.S.B. 
I, p. 216) states that P. striata is apparently not uncommon on 
Acacia arabica near Pamben. Flower refers to the habits of the 
Malaysian Coremiocnemis cunicularius (J. Straits R. Asiatic Soc. 
No. 36, July Igor, p. 42). 
Walsh notices the habits of a trapdoor spider from Orissa, 
which he describes as Adelonychia nigrostriata (J.A.S B. LIX 
[IIj, pp. 269-270). Specimens which he sent to O. P. Cambridge 
were described by the latter at about the same time under the 
name Diflothele walshi, by which the species is now generally 
known. 
The nests of Sason cinctipes were pointed out to me at Pera- 
deniya by Mr. Green. ‘They are constructed on flat moss-covered 
rocks and walls, and are roofed in by two rounded flaps of equal 
size, hinged together to form a single 8-shaped structure, and 
attached to the lower part of the nest at either end of the hinge. 
These flaps are covered with fragments of moss, etc. and are flush 
with the moss growing round about them. Consequently they are 
very hard to see. The spider sits beneath them, and can get out 
by raising either of them. 
All species with which I am acquainted belonging to the sub- 
family Ischnocoleae live under stones and logs of wood. ‘They 
do not appear to make burrows. 
Cyriopagus (‘‘ Melopoeus’’) minax ' lives in silk-lined burrows 
which are not closed by a door of any kind. 
’ 
Uloboridae. 
Most of the Indian Uloboridae known to me live in groups, 
often in association with a web-spinning spider of some other 
family. In Cochin I found a nest of the common gregarious 
spider, Stegodyphus sarasinorum, with the orb-webs of a small 
Uloborid spread around it. When disturbed the Uloborids re- 
treated in among the Stegodyphi. I gathered the branch and 
destroyed most of the Uloborid webs in so doing ; but the spiders 
! Concerning the generic name of this spider see Rec. Ind. Mus. XI, p. 281. 
