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appears at an earl}' age and gradually increases so that large 

 immature males which still bear a cylindrical tail are at once 

 recognizable as such, this appendage being only five or six 

 times as long as broad. In very minute specimens the tail is 

 relatively short and stout in both sexes, that of the female be- 

 coming longer and slenderer with increasing age whilst that of 

 the male remains practically unchanged. 



Colour {in spirit). — Pale greenish brown, almost greyish, be- 

 coming slightly rufescent in front. A pair of brownish semi- 

 lunar areas present on the anterior margins of segments 5 to 

 7, but barely distinguishable as their colour scarcely differs from 

 that of the rest of the under surface of the abdomen. 



Length. — About 5 mm. 



TARANTULIDAE. 



Charinides, gen. nov. 



This genus closely resembles Char inns (Sim.) Kraep., but 

 differs therefrom in that the foot of each of the walking-legs is 

 four-jointed instead of five-jointed, and that the tibia of the last 

 pair is three-jointed (as in Catageus) instead of four-jointed. It is 

 distinguished from Catageus, Thor., by the Charinus-\ike arrange- 

 ment of the spines on the arms. 



Charinides bengalensis, sp. nov. 



Localities. — This species is abundant among old bricks that 

 have been loosel}' heaped together in the Museum compound 

 and left alone for several 3'ears ; I have also found it in simi- 

 lar heaps on some waste land belonging to the Zoological Gardens 

 at Alipur, at the Botanical Gardens at Sibpur, and beside 

 a ruined cottage in jungle at Tolh'gunge. It is probably therefore 

 abundant throughout Calcutta and its suburbs wherever there 

 is suitable cover for it. I have not yet had much opportunity 

 of looking for it in other parts of Bengal. Dr. Annandale on 

 one occasion found a specimen on the wall of a staircase in the 

 Museum ; and we have specimens collected in Calcutta by J. 

 Wood-Mason and B. Aitken, the former probably in 1876 and 

 the latter in 1899. 



cf . Ccphalothorax. — Rostrum small, triangular. Carapace 

 broadly heart-shaped, the anterior margin usually rather promi- 

 nent and flattened ; this margin is armed with six (sometimes 

 seven) spines, two (or three) placed near together in front of 

 the median eyes, and two on each side by the antero-lateral angle, 

 lyateral eyes situated not far from the slightly sinuous antero- 

 lateral margin of the carapace, their distance from the antero- 

 lateral angle being about one-half as great as that from the 

 lateral angle. Postero-lateral margin convex and about one-third 

 of the length of the antero-lateral. Posterior margin excavate, 

 about twice as long as the postero-lateral margin, A somewhat 



