410 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi.. XXII, 



9 . The markings are very variable in extent and the pos- 

 terior pair of transverse spots may be absent, as they appear to 

 have been from Simon's specimens. The ground colour of the 

 abdomen is black, and the markings pale ochraceous including the 

 spot on which the anal papilla stands; but the papilla itself is 

 of a snowy white. 



c? . The male is slightly smaller than the female, being only 

 about 2| mm. long, and has the dorsal surface of abdomen of a 

 lustrous blue-black hue throughout, except for the minute white 

 anal papilla. 



Family Hersiliidae. 



Hersilia savignyi, IvUcas. 



Hersilia savignyi. Pocock, 1900, p. 241. 

 Common on tree-trunks on the sandy shore of the northern 

 end of the island. 



Family Pholcidae. 

 Artema atlanta, Walck. 



Artema atlanta, Pocock, 1900, pp 238-g, text-fig. Si. 



One specimen found in the house. 



Smcringopus sp. 



A spider with small but somewhat elongate body and im- 

 inensely long legs, which spins untidy cobwebs in hollow trees and 

 sometimes among the lowest branches of Prickly Pears. It ap- 

 pears to form the chief article of diet of a remarkable Attid {Linus 

 sp., see below, p. 419). It is very like S. elongatus, but differs in 

 the structure of the vulva. The specimens in the Indian Museum 

 collection suggest that it is a widely distributed jungle spider, 

 while S. elongatus lives mainly in houses. 



Family Theridiidae. 



Rhomphaca sp. 



A single spider, apparently belonging to the genus Rhoni- 

 phaea, was found in an irregular web together with a specimen 

 of one of the species of Theridon referred to below. The latter 

 was much the larger spider of the two, and doubtless the rightful 

 owner of the web. 



Argyrodcs scintillulana, Cambridge. 



Argyrodes scifitiUulana, Cambridge, 1880, pp. 332-3. P'- ■"^^•"^'' ^S- '"• 

 This species is occasionally found in webs of Cyrtophora 

 cicntrosa, Stoliczka. 



