igii] F- H. Gravsly : Fimna of Barkuda 1 . 419 



Family Oxyopidae. 

 Peuccttia viridana (Stoliczka). 

 Peiicettia vin'i/nna, Pocock. 19(10, pp. 255-6, fifif- 86. 

 A large green Oxyopid, with the abdomen of young specimens 

 and the legs of adults often reddish below, the upper surface of 

 the abdomen ornamented with whitish lines, the legs covered with 

 numerous large black spines. 



Its colour and spiney legs make it most inconspicuous on 

 plants bearing glandular hairs, such as Jatropha gossypifolia , in 

 whose foliage it most frequently makes its home. 



Pcucettia and Oxyopes spp. 



Several other Oxyopids occur among foliage, none of which 

 I am at present able to determine. They are much less common 

 and for the most part much smaller than P. viridana. 



Family Attidae. 



Numbers of Attids, including some of the ant-mimicing spe- 

 cies, are common on Barkuda Island ; but it is impossible to deal 

 with them satisfactorily without going much more fully into the 

 Indian species generally than is possible in the present paper. One 

 form, however, requires special mention on account of its habits. 

 Its curious appearance makes it easy to identify getaericall}'. 



Linus sp. 

 n. xiv, fig. 15. 



A moderately large iumping-spider of mottled brown colour 

 and normal form, but rendered peculiarly grotesque by projecting 

 tufts of hair on the bodj' and localized fringes on the legs (pi. xiv. 

 fig. 15). It lives in crevices of Ficus and other trees, from the bark of 

 which it is not easily distinguishable until it moves. It feeds upon 

 the Pholcid, Smeringopus sp. (see above, p. 410) into whose untidy 

 webs it walks apparentlj- without any difficulty till within strik- 

 ing distance, when it raises itself slowlj- on its hind legs and then 

 springs like a flash upon its prey, which by this time is usually 

 swinging rapidly to and fro on its long legs, as Pholcid spiders 

 in common with Phalangids and Tipulid flies habitually do when 

 alarmed. 



I once found a young LinuR in the web of Cyvtopliora cica- 

 trosa, whose obvious alarm had attracted my attention ; but I have 

 never known a Cyrtophora to be eaten even b}- an adult Linus. 

 On the first occasion on which I tried the experiment the Linus 

 made straight towards the spider into whose web I had intro- 

 duced it; the Cyrtophora became greatly alarmed, rushed madlv 

 round inside its dome and eventually escaped. On a subsequent 

 occasion, in another web, the Cvriophora closely watched the move- 



