1921.J F. H. Gravely : Indian Spiders. 455 



Darjiling toSoom, 7000-5000 ft. ; Soom, 3000-3500 ft. ; Gopaldhara, 

 Lebong, 5500-6000 ft. ; Pashok, 3500 and 5000 ft. ; Kalimpong, 

 2000-4500 ft. and Labdah. 3000 ft. — all in the Darjiling District 

 of the E. Himalayas ; Shillong and Sonarpur in Assam ; Maymyo 

 in Burma. This species is very common round Calcutta among 

 long grass and low bushes, esjiecially over water during the rains. 



Simon [loc. cit.) has pointed out that the true L. celehesiana of 

 Walckenaer is common throughout Malaysia and part of Australia, 

 and that Blackwall's nigrotrivittata is identical with it, both 

 being distinct from the Indian decorata. L. decorafa is the species 

 distinguished by Thorell {loc. cit.) from nigrotrivittata under the 

 erronoeus name celebcsiana, an error in which he has been followed 

 b}' Pocock in the " Fauna." 



Females of L. decorata are somewhat smaller and slenderer 

 than those of L. celehesiana, with the posterior end of the abdomen 

 produced above the spinnerettes into a more acutely angular 

 process. The markings on the abdomen, moreover, are usually 

 somewhat better defined than in L. celehesiana, and the dorso-lateral 

 silver band is bifid instead of simple behind. 



In the male the inner tarsal apophysis of the palp is present in 

 L. decorata and absent in L celehesiana , and the palps as a whole 

 are much more slender in the former than in the latter, the tibia — 

 though varying greatly in different specimens — being not less than 

 three times as long as the patella, whereas it is barely twice as 

 long in L. celehesiana. 



Leucauge bengalensis, sp. nov. 



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Localities. — Calcutta and its suburb Maniktolla ; also Seram- 

 pore on the Hughli a few miles north of Calcutta. 



The female resembles L. argentata (Camb.) so closely that I 

 took it to be identical with that species until I had examined the 

 male. I can find no characters distinguishing the female from 

 those mentioned in the description of L. argentata; but in this 

 description there is no mention ol the sizes of the ej^es. In L. 

 bengalcnsis the anterior medians are much larger than any of the 

 others, so much so. that I think the fact must have been noted by 

 Cambridge in his description of L. argentata if it had existed there. 



The male, however, differs greatly from that of L. argentata, 

 both the palps and abdomen being very slender. In this it resem- 

 bles L. decorata, except that the abdomen is perhaps a little 

 longer and narrower, and is strongly marked with silver and black, 

 much as in the female. 



Leucauge tessellata (Thorell). 



Aygyroepeira tessellata, Thorell, 1887, pp. 135-138. 

 Argyroeneira tessellata, Pocock, 1900, p. 216. 



Localities.— Vore.st Tramway, 29-30th mile, 1600 ft. and 

 Parambikulam, 1700-3200 ft., Cochin ; PoUibetta, Coorg ; Ghumti, 



