1921.] F. H. Gravely : Fauna of Barkiida 1. 401 



meters, their outermost points being almost as far apart as those 

 ■of the anterior medians. The posterior laterals are long and 

 narrow, and markedly oblique, their posterior ends being sepa- 

 rated from the posterior medians by about one posterior median 

 diameter, and their anterior ends from the anterior medians by 

 about one anterior median diameter. The anterior laterals are 

 very strongly prominent, more so than in A. constructor from 

 Madras, which also has the anterior and posterior medians of 

 almost equal size, and the latter occupying a much wider area 

 than the former (text-fig. la). The protarsi of the 3rd and 4th legs 

 are much narrower distally than at the base, and the tarsi of these 

 legs are distinctly more slender than in .1 . constructor. 



<f . Males have onl}' been found in August, and then much 

 more rarely than females. They vary considerably in size. The type 

 specimen has a total length of 11 mm., its carapace being 5|^ mm. 

 long by 5 mm. broad. The eyes (text-fig. ic) are more compact 

 than in the female (this is more marked even than in A. construc- 

 tor) and the anterior laterals are somewhat less prominent. Their 

 arrangement otherwise resembles that of the female. The tibia 

 -of the palp (text-fig. ic) is inflated and furnished distally with a 

 ventral concavity' whose outer margin is bordered by stout spines 

 which are longer at the two ends than in the middle. This concav- 

 ity is longer and shallower than in A. constructor, occupying rather 

 more instead of less than half the length of the tibia, and not 

 forming a complete semicircle. The tarsus has a somewhat rounded 

 external process distally. The spine of the palpal organ is broad 

 at the base, slender and bent distalh' with blunt tip, much as in .-1 . 

 constructor . The tibia of the first leg is practically straight. It 

 bears a row of spines on its outer side as in .1. constructor, and 

 has its distal extremity armed on the inner side with two tubercles 

 situated one behind the other as in that species, but somewhat 

 smaller (text-fig. le). The proximal tubercle is a simple conical 

 process, somewhat blunter than in i. constructor. The distal one 

 is longer and is strongly grooved both above and below ; it is some- 

 what slenderer than in A . constructor distally. The protarsus lacks 

 the large submediau conical spur characteristic of A . constructor. 



The spinules on the hind coxae, which help to distinguish the 

 female of A. constructor irom that oi A. ha^kudensis, are not found 

 in the male. 



Nemesiellus sp. 



PI. xviii, fig. 8. 



This species appears to be darker in colour than N. niontanus 

 but as it fades in spirit from dark olive green to brownish it is 

 possible that it may fade still further. It resembles N. niontanus 

 in all ocher points mentioned in Pocock's very brief description 

 (igoo, pp. 167-8) but dift'ers from specimens which I have recently 

 obtained from an altitude of about 6500 7000 ft. in the Nilgi.is in 

 the dentition of the mandibles, a chatacter not referred to in the 



