CHILOBEACHYS. 193 



Large or small, mostly dull-coloured, Spiders, differing from 

 Pcecilotheria in having the carapace less flat, the fovea crescentically 

 procurved, the eyes of the anterior line practically straight, the 

 spines on the mandible and the bacilli on the maxilla more numer- 

 ous, and in the series of bacilli not being accompanied by tubercles. 

 Legs with scopulaB narrower and with spines at the tip of protarsi. 

 Palpal organ of the male ending in a long and slender or in a shorter 

 blade-like spine. 



Type, C. nitelinus, Karsch. 



Distribution. India, Ceylon, and Burma. 



Habits. Live on the ground in burrows or in natural crevices. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



a. Carapace shorter than protarsus of 4th and not 



exceeding patella and tibia of 3rd leg C. andersoni, p. 197. 



b. Carapace longer than protarsus of 4th and 



than patella and tibia of 3rd leg. 

 a 1 . Carapace as long as patella and tibia of 1st 



or of 4tli leg C. femoralis, p. 195. 



6 1 . Carapace shorter than patella and tibia of 

 1st or of 4th leg. 



a 2 . Palpus twice as long as carapace C. nitelinus, p. 197. 



b 2 . Palpus much less than twice as long as 



carapace. 

 a 3 . Spine of palpal organ stout, blade-like, 



abruptly narrowed at the point. 

 a 4 . Femora of palpi and of 1st and 2nd 

 legs sooty black below and externally 



fringed ." C.fimbriatm, p. 195. 



6 4 . Femora of palpi and of 1st and 

 2nd legs particoloured below ; not 

 fringed. 

 a 5 . Width of carapace exceeding tibia 



of 1st or protarsus of 4th leg .... C, bicolor, p. 196. 

 b 5 . Width of carapace equal to tibia 



of 1st and less than protarsus of [p. 196. 



4th leg C.Jlavo-pilosus, 



b 3 . Spine of palpal organ slender, attenuate. 

 a 6 . Area of palpal bulb remote from base 

 of spine, produced into an anguliform 



prominence C. thorellii, p. 199. 



3 alpal bulb with scarcely a trace of 

 prominence. 



a 1 . Fringe of hairs overlapping bacilli 

 on maxilla olive ; hairs of body 



and legs blackish C. pocockii, p. 195. 



b 7 . Fringe on maxilla shining red ; 



hairs of body and legs brown 

 a 8 . Femora of legs scantily clothed 

 with long hairs ; carapace just 

 exceeding protarsus of 4th leg. (J. stridulans, p, 198. 



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