456 Records of the Indian Museum. [vol. XXII, 



1500-5000 ft., Siiigla, 1500 ft., Gopaldhara, Sooni, 4000-5000 ft., 

 Pashok at various altitudes from 2000-4000 ft., Kalimpong, 600- 

 4500 ft., and Argarra above Teesta nr. Kalimpong, 1000 ft., all in 

 the Dariiling District; and above Tura (Garo Hills), 3500-3900 

 it., S'onarpur, and the Assam-Bhutan Frontier (Darrang District) 

 in Assam. 



This species is often found in the Darjiling District durin:^; 

 the rains together with L. celcbesiaiia, which it resembles in genera! 

 size, form and colour. The female may, however, readily be 

 distinguished from that of this and all other species described 

 above by the dense and somewhat long black hair covering the 

 distal two-thirds of the tibiae of the fourth pair of legs. The 

 male can be distinguished by its somewhat more prominent ej'es 

 and its large and dark coloured palpal organs armed with both 

 inner and outer tarsal apophyses. 



Leucauge fastigata (Simon). 



Argyroepeira fastigata,' S'xmon. KS77 (July), p. 79, pi. iii. fi.y. 10. 



M eta elegans, ThoreW. 1877 (001.-1)60.1, Aim. Mtis. Civ. Geno-oa X, pp. 



416-418; 1895. pp. 156-15Q. 

 Argyroepeira fasfigata. Pocock, 1900, p. 2ih. 



Localities. — Peradeniya in Ceylon ; Trichur, 0-300 ft. ; Forest 

 Tramway, ioth-i4th mile, 0-300 ft., and Parambikulam, 1700-3200 

 ft. in Cochin; Barkuda Island (Chilka Lake) in Ganjam ; Hardwar 

 and Saharanpur in the United Provinces ; Tavoy and Arakan in 

 Burma. 



The webs of this species are mostly spread more or less hori- 

 zontally in somewhat shady spaces among bushes or under trees. 

 The webs are large, and are often attached to their supports by 

 strands extending for a considerable distance. They are usually 

 situated about on a level with one's eyes which makes them some- 

 what difficult to detect and I have frequently walked right into 

 them without seeing them, even when searching for them. Males 

 are very difficult to find, as both they and their webs are quite 

 small, and the}- do not seem to associate themselves closely with 

 females, though they live in similar situations. 



The female resembles that of L. tessellata in having the hind 

 tibiae clothed with long thick black hair, but differs in having 

 the anterior end of the abdomen very strongly produced above the 

 carapace. The male differs from those of all other species of the 

 genus known to me, except L. ventralis and L. tessellata, in having 

 large globular palpal organs of a very dark colour. From these 

 two species it differs in its minute size (total length of body about 

 2 mm.), rotund abdomen and intensely spiney chelicerae. Both 

 the inner and outer tarsal apophyses are present on the palps. 



