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147. Ischnothele dumicola, sp. n. 



5 . Colour : integument yellowish brown, clouded with black 

 and covered with greyish hairs ; sternum dark ; abdomen orna- 

 mented above on each side with a row of six pale, obliquely set 

 spots or short stripes. Carapace 



half the protarsus of 1st leg. 



d. Smaller than $ ; spur on 

 tibia of 1st leg external, stout, 

 nearly straight, pointed ; protarsus 

 arcuate in its basal half. Palp 

 with tibia a little inflated ; spine of 

 palpal organ stout, straight at base, 

 filiform and curved apically. 



Measurements in mm. $ . Total 

 length 9, carapace 4, 1st leg 8, 

 Fig . 55. 4th leg 11. cJ. Total length 6 r 



Ischnothele dumicola, $ , x 2. carapace 3'5, 1st leg 7'5, 4th 



leg 10-5. 

 Loc. Western India : Poona ( Wroughton). 



Genus MACROTHELE, Ausserer. 



Macrothele, Ausserer, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxi, p. 181, 1871 

 Hist. Nat. Araign. i, p. 184, 1892. 



Differs from the preceding genus in having the thoracic fovea 

 straight or recurved, the labium studded with spicules, the tarsi 

 of the legs armed with spines, and the terminal segment of the- 

 posterior spinners shorter than the 1st and 2nd taken together^ 

 straight, and not flexible and sinuous. 



Type, Macrofhele calpetana (Walck.). 



Distribution. Mediterranean Region ; Eastern Oriental Region 

 and New Zealand. 



148. Macrothele maculata, Thorell, Ann. M us. Genova, xxviii, p. 409,. 

 1890 (Diplura) ; id. op. cit. xxxvii, p. 184, 1897 (Macrothele). 



$ . Colour blackish ; abdomen spotted below and banded above 

 as in the foregoing species. Carapace as long as patella and tibia 

 of 4th or of 1st leg. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 15, carapace 7'25, 1st leg 

 21, 4th leg 23. 



Loc. Burma : Tado and Plapoo in Tenasserim (Fea). 



