226 Dr. W. Rae Sherriffs on 



Beach on tlie buslies there, but I have not yet found Scytodes 

 living in this fashion. S. univittata (Sim.) is recorded 

 from India. 



Prodidomidse. 

 Zimiris (Sim.), 1882. 



9. Zimiris doriai ? 



A very delicate, small, nocturnal spider, found always at 

 night running on the walls of rooms within the bungalow. 

 Entirely a house-spider and not at all common. Found often 

 behind pictures on the walls, the web being just a few 

 irregular threads on the back of the picture. Pair found 

 together there, and as the male is said by Simon (i. p. 335) 

 to be unknown, I give the following description : — 



cJ . 2 mm. long ; colours very much as in ? ; legs yellow 

 and smooth ; abdomen all round in front furnished with 

 short silvery hairs, which contrast with the grey colour of 

 the abdomen itself. Spinnerets long and very much as 

 in ? ; cephalothorax yellow-brown dorsally and quite 

 smooth ; palps robust and the palpal organ brown where the 

 chitin is thick. As might be expected, the palpal organ 

 greatly resembles that found in Prodidomus, cf. Simon, 

 i. p. 335. 



<£ caught running swiftly on the wall. When pursued it 

 jumps like an Attid. When alive the colours are pale 

 yellow, except the coxae, which are clear and almost trans- 

 parent ; head and sternum clear ; abdomen light grey ; dark 

 parts are the palpal organs, spinnerets, and feet, while the 

 pair of front eye3 are the darkest of all. Leg-span when at 

 rest about 7 mm., almost twice this when extended. 



Simon records only one -species from India, but does not 

 give its name. Presumably it is this one. 



Locality. Madras city only, all the year round. Not 

 obtained on the hills. Probably it is found throughout 

 the plains. 



Drassida. . 



Of this very large and difficult family I have met with 

 only two members : Drassodes lapidosus (or one of that 

 group) sent me from Palghat and Leptodrassus sp. ? from 

 within Madras city. 



