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Sparassus (Walck.), 1805. 



68. Sparassus lamarcki (Latr.) 



is the commonest species ; found often within the bunga- 

 low at night. Abdomen is marked dorsally by a median line 

 of small black dots and ventrally by a broad black median 

 stripe. The mandibles have also at the top of each to the 

 outside a characteristically red-brown spot. Outside in the 

 open the spider during the day retires under the shade 

 of a leaf. 



I have found the female with her cocoon attached to a 

 withered leaf of Calotropis yigantea on Madras Beach. The 

 globular mass of spiderlings measured 14 mm. in diameter, 

 and was fastened to the leaf under a stout tubular outer cover, 

 which protected the spider as well. There were 340 young 

 spiders within the cocoon. 



Locality. Madras city. 



69. Sparassus tarandus (Sim.). 



There are a large number of Sparassids on Calotropis that 

 are much smaller than S. lamarcki ( ? 10 mm., <$ 7 mm.). 

 These live within a curled up leaf, within which the simple 

 globular cocoon is placed. The cocoon measures 6 mm. in 

 diameter and contained 115 young. Often found within a 

 withered leaf containing the cocoon. 



Locality. Madras city and Beach. 



Heteropoda (Latr.), 1804. 

 70. Heteropoda venatoria (Linn.) 



is the common species and is often met with in houses 

 after dark. The cocoon is drab-white and measures 19x16 

 mm., being roughly oval in outline ; in thickness at greatest 

 depth it is 8 mm. The cocoon resembles a flat button, in 

 section doubly convex. It contained 275 young ones. 

 Locality. Madras city ; Kotagiri, Nilgiris. 



Thelcticopis (Karsch.), 1884. 

 71. Thelcticopis paripes ? (Karsch). 



A single male alone obtained. It agrees with Pocock's 

 description in having the branches of the tibial apophysis 

 unequal, but here the outer branch is long, curved, and sharp, 



