190 THEBAPHOSIDjE. 



176. Pcecilotheria miranda, sp. n. 



. Colour : carapace greyish, with a pair of ill-defined brownish 

 bands on each side of the middle line ; the pale abdominal stripe 

 broken up by a row of four large brown spots ; legs variegated 

 above, patellae entirely white above and below except for a small 

 dark spot on those of the 3rd and 4th legs ; femora entirely velvety 

 black below ; tibiae white with median black stripe ; protarsi dark 

 below, with pale basal patch ; palpi uniformly dark below. First- 

 leg about three times, 4th about two and three quarter times as 

 long as carapace, which is as long as patella and tibia of 2nd or of 

 4th leg. Femora of palp and anterior legs fringed. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 46, carapace 22, 1st leg 64 r 

 2nd 58, 3rd 51, 4th 62. 



Loc. Bengal : Chota Nagpur (Logsdail}. 



177. Pcecilotheria subfusca, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (6) xv, p. 171, 1895 ; 



id. op. tit. (7) iii, p. 88, 1899. 



. Colour : carapace brown, paler laterally, with narrow white 

 lines radiating from the fovea ; pale abdominal baud broken up par- 

 tially or completely into two rows of spots ; legs coloured above 

 much as in P. miranda, but patellae dark, each with broad pale basal 

 band and apical pale spot and a much narrower pale area on base 

 of protarsus ; palp with patella and base of tibia pale below; legs- 

 mostly black below, femora with narrow pale distal stripe, patellae 

 with basal white patch, tibise with small pale patch at base and at 

 distal end, protarsus also with pale patch in front. Carapace about 

 equal to the patella and tibia of 4th and a little less than those 

 segments of 2nd leg. 



d . Like female in colour ; 1st and 4th legs only slightly unequal 

 and about four times as long as carapace. 



Measurements in mm. $ . Total length 50, carapace 23, 1st leg 

 68, 2nd 63, 3rd 54, 4th 64. 



rf. Total length 31, carapace 15, 1st leg 62, 2nd 56, 3rd 48 y 

 4th 60. 



Loc. Ceylon : Punduloya and Kandy (Green) ; Peradeniya 

 (Freeman). 



178. Poecilotheria regalis, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (7) iii, p. 89, t. vii, 



figs. 1-1 b, 1899. 



$ . Colour : carapace greyish, marked in the middle with a pair of 

 longitudinal dark stripes ; abdomen with a broad whitish, marginally 

 sinuous band, edged with black, whence black stripes pass laterally 

 on to the sides of the abdomen ; coxae, sternum, and lower side of 

 abdomen deep chocolate-brown, a broad transverse yellowish-red band 

 behind the epigastric fold ; upper side of legs and palpi variegated 

 with grey and black, femora black, patellae and tibiae whitish below; 

 lower and under sides of femora, patellae, and tibise of 1st and 2nd 

 legs bright sulphur-yellow, of 3rd and 4th bluish white ; femora 

 and tibia each ornamented with a broad blackish stripe, which on 



