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median and posterior lateral eyes subequal, equidistant, and sepa- 

 rated by spaces not or scarcely exceeding the diameter of an eye. 

 Labium armed with a row of three larger and also with a few 

 smaller teeth. Legs with claws of anterior pairs strong, the 

 exterior armed with a simple basal tooth, the interior with a double 

 tooth ; claws of posterior legs armed with a single tooth. 



Length 14 mm. (young female). 



Loc. Ceylon : Kandy (Simon), 



138. Heligmomerus prostans, Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. i, p. 91 1 



1892. 



Differs from the foregoing in having the anterior median and 

 posterior lateral eyes farther apart from each other, and the 

 medians evidently smaller than the laterals. Tarsal claws thicker, 

 .all of them armed at the base with an unequally bifid tooth. 

 Labiuin armed with only three teeth. 



Length 21 mm. (adult $ ). 



Loc. S. India : Kodaikamil, Palni Hills (Simon). 



Genus CONOTHELE, Thorell. 



Conothele, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii, p. 303, 1878 ; Simon, 

 Hist. Nat. Araign. i, p. 88, 1892. 



Kesembling Acanthodon, but with the eyes normally arranged 

 near the anterior border of the carapace ; the anterior laterals 

 close to the posterior laterals ; eyes of anterior line procurved. 

 Mandibles not so prominent, depressed. Sternum with posterior 

 sigilla distinct and remote from the margin. Leys as in Heli- 

 gmomerus. Carapace of male rugose; labium and maxillae less 

 strongly toothed than in female; legs longer, less strongly spined, 

 with anterior tarsi scopulate ; palpi long, the tarsus short and 

 truncate. 



Type, C. malayana, Doleschall. 



Distribution. Burma to the Solomon Islands. 



Habits. So far as is known, the species of this genus build their 

 trap-door nests on the trunks of trees, spinning a silken tube in 

 a depression of the bark and covering the white silk with bits of 

 lichen aud moss. 



139. Conothele birmanica, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) v, p. 19, 



1887. 



$ (young). Colour : carapace and abdomen blackish, legs and 

 sternum paler. Carapace considerably longer than patella and 

 tibia of 1st and of 4th legs ; ocular area twice as wide as long ; 

 eyes of posterior line straight, diameter of anterior medians much 

 less than long diameter of anterior laterals. Labium with 5 teeth. 

 Tibiae of anterior legs without external apical area of spinules such 

 .as occurs in other species of the genus. 



