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



brown beneath, and the legs are much more of a unitorm 

 dirty white, the anterior pairs being only tinted with yellow, 

 and the posterior pairs without the bluish tinge ; the dark 

 stripes, too, are blacker and narrower ; there is, moreover, a 

 largish black patch on the inner side of the anterior femora 

 at the base, and there is no white distal band on the lower 

 side of the femora of the third and fourth legs, or, at all 

 events, at most a very narrow one spreading down from the 

 dorsal side ; and the bands on the patella of the third and 

 fourth legs are broader than in P. regalis. Finally, the 

 lower side of the abdomen is entirely chocolate-brown, without 

 a pale band. 



Legs of first and second pairs shorter than in P. regalis, 

 the carapace being as long as the patella and tibia of the first 

 leg and longer than those of the second by the grey spot 

 on the protarsus ; patella and tibia of fourth a little longer 

 than of second ; femora and trochanters of palpi and anterior 

 legs not, or at all events only very slightly, fringed. 



Stridulating-organ on maxilla consisting of a short cluster 

 of two rows of longer and shorter clavate bristles, with usually 

 two or three strong black tooth-like ridges removed a little 

 distance from the distal end of the cluster. 



Measurements in millimetres of type specimen. — Total length 

 54 ; length of carapace 26, width 21 ; length of first leg 69, 

 of second 61, of third 54, of fourth 65; patella and tibia of 

 first 26, of fourth 23 ; protarsus of fourth 1 6. 



Loc. Kadiampatti and Mullapiiram, in the Salem District, 

 Sheveroy Hills (H. B. P. Carter and H. G. West). Taken 

 in stacks of locomotive fire-wood. 



This species differs from P. regalis in the characters 

 pointed out in the diagnosis. It resembles P.fasciata in the 

 absence of the femoral fringes of hair, these being the only 

 species with banded legs in which these fringes are not 

 developed. It, however, differs entirely from P.fasciata in 

 the much whiter colour of the lower side of the legs, the much 

 greater width of the black femoral bands, and the uniform 

 chocolate colour of the lower side of the tibia of the palp. 

 It is also a much shorter- legged species than P.fasciata, a 

 species in which the carapace is considerably shorter than the 

 patella and tibia of the first leg. 



That this species is not based upon females of the S.-Indian 

 species already described as P. vittata, which might perhaps 

 be suspected from the fact that the two somewhat resemble 

 each other in the whitish colour of the underside of the 

 anterior femora, is shown by the absence of the femoral 

 fringes, which are highly developed in P. vittata, by the pale 



