210 PSECHBIDJ. 



band of yellowish-grey hairs in the upper half ; legs olive-brown, 

 indistinctly banded with grey ; abdomen golden yellow above and 

 at sides, thickly mottled with black below. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 13, carapace 7, 1st leg 13. 



Loc. S. India : Bangalore (Stauntori). 



212. Stegodyphus tibialis, O. P. Cambridge, A. M. N. H. (4) Hi, 

 p. 71, t. vi, figs. 70, 71, 1869 (Eresus). 



<$ . Colour : carapace black, with broad yellow marginal band ; 

 abdomen brownish black, the under side and anterior and posterior 

 ends of upper side thickly covered with yellow hairs ; legs blackish, 

 the three posterior pairs banded above. Structurally differing 

 from the previously described males in having the femur, patella, 

 and especially tibia of the anterior legs thick and furnished with 

 long black hairs, the height of the tibia being more than half its 

 length. 



Total length about 8 mm. 



Loc. S.India: Mysore. Burma: Minhla (Comotto). 



Family PSECHRID^. 



Medium-sized, cribellate Spiders with long and slender legs, 

 the anterior two pairs being much longer than the posterior two, 

 and all of them furnished with uugual tufts and 3 claws ; 

 the superior claws are strongly toothed. Head moderately elevated ; 

 eyes in two transverse lines ; clypeus high. Mandibles strong and 

 short, toothed below. Abdomen oval or cylindrical. Cribellum 

 large. 



Distribution. Ranging from Ceylon and India over the Indo- and 

 Austro-Malayan area. 



Sedentary Spiders spinning large sheet-like webs. 



The two Indian genera may be diagnosed as follows : 



a. Head narrower, ocular quadrangle longer than 



wide PSECHRUS, p. 210 



b. Head broader, ocular quadrangle square FECKNIA, p. 212. 



Genus PSECHRUS, Thorell. 



Psechrus, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xiii, p. 170, 1878; Simon, 

 Hist. Nat. Araign. i, p. 226, 1892. 



Carapace with cephalic region narrower, more prominent 

 anteriorly ; eyes of anterior line procurved, medians smaller than 

 laterals, of posterior line recurved, considerably behind the anterior 

 line, quadrangle longer than wide. 



Type, P. argentatus, Dol. 



Distribution. India and Ceylon to New Guinea. 



