Mr. R. I. Pocock on the Genus Poecilotheria. 91 



Presidency. Taken in timber brought from the eastern 

 Ghats (H. R. P. Carter). 



The type of this species is a fine adult female example 

 which Mr, Carter brought alive from India and deposited in 

 the Zoological Gardens at Regent's Park. Unfortunately 

 the animal did not long survive the journey to London. I 

 am much indebted to Mr. Arthur Thomson, the head keeper, 

 for the pains he took in the preservation of the specimen and 

 for bringing it to the British Museum, at Mr. Carter's 

 request, when it was thoroughly dried. 



The species much resembles the Ceylonese P. fasciata in 

 the colouring of the body and limbs, but may be at once 

 distinguished as from all the other known species of the genus 

 by the presence of the broad reddish band on the lower side 

 of the abdomen. It further differs from fasciata in the 

 breadth of the bands on the lower side of the legs and the 

 presence of the fringes of hairs on the femora of the palpi and 

 front legs. In both of these respects it approaches the Pinang 

 species P. striata. P. striata, however, is a longer-legged 

 form, having the carapace shorter than the patella and tibia 

 of the fourth leg &c. (Compare measurements of the types.) 

 The British Museum possesses a dry example of what 



appears to be a male specimen of this species from Koorg 



(Mr. Macgilligan' s coll.) . It presents the following measure- 

 ments: — 



Total length 32; length of carapace 17"5, width 15*5; 



length of first leg 73, of second 63, of third 52"5, of fourth 65 ; 



protarsus of first 16*3, of fourth 17"2 ; tibia of fourth 14*5. 

 We also have an immature and badly preserved female 



specimen from the Nilgiri Hills (E. W. Gates) and a very 



much rubbed adult female from Dahanee in the Tana district, 



North Konkan (A. G. Edie). 



(6) Poecilotheria for mosa, sp. n. 



Colouring of the upperside of trunk and limbs much like 

 that of P. regalis) the browm bands on the thorax much 

 wider and spreading more over towards the margins ; the 

 pale band on the upperside of the abdomen less noticeably 

 lobate posteriorly, with the brown band that circumscribes it 

 and the brown stripes that radiate from it less clearly defined ; 

 there is also a larger pale area at the extremities of the tibiae 

 and protarsi of the legs, and the uppersides of the tarsi of the 

 legs are not distinctly spotted ; the lower sides of the legs and 

 palpi are strongly striped, but the tibia of the palp is entirely 



