ARGYROEPEIBA. 215 



Total length 10 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon. India: Ching\eput (Jambunathan], Uran (Aitkeri), 

 Dekkan (Simon). Calcutta (Stoliczka). Burma : Moulmein (Oates), 

 Bharao (Fea). Andamans, Celebes, &c. 



219. Tetragnatha geniculata, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeits. xxxvi, p. 286, 

 1892. 



Carapace with posterior lateral eyes not prominent ; ocular 

 quadrangle only slightly narrower in front. Mandibles long ; fang 

 strongly geniculate in its distal half, armed near the base with two 

 strong teeth, one inferior, the other external, more basal and 

 projecting forwards. 



Total length 15 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon (Sarasin) : Trincomali (Yerbury). India : Uran 

 (Aitken), Poona Grhats (Wroughton). 



220. Tetragnatha mandibulata, Walck. Ins. Apt. ii, p. 211, 

 1887 : minatoria, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii, p. 83, 1877 : 

 leptognatha, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, x, p. 441, 1877. 



$ . Eyes more widely separated than in T. genicu- 

 lata. Mandible with fang not strongly geniculate, 

 lightly sinuous, armed with two small teeth, one 

 beneath at the base, the other on the inner side in 

 the basal half. 



c? . Tang evenly curved at base, straightish, 

 unarmed ; mandible armed above with one shortish 

 apical spiniform tooth. 



Total length about 13 mm. 



Loc. Burma : Eangoon (Oates), Shwegoo Myo 



, Fea \ Nicobar Is. ; Indo- and Austro-Malaysia. 



mandibulata, 

 $. (Legsab- 

 breyiated.) 



Genus ARGYROEPEIRA, Emerton. 



Argvroepeira, Emerton, Tr. Conn. Acad. vi, p. 331, 1885 ; Simon, 

 Hist. Nat. Araign. i, p. 736, 1894. 



Distinguishable from the succeeding genera by having the maxillae 

 long, narrow at the base, dilated, and externally angled at the 

 apex, and by the presence of one row or more of bristles on the 

 outer side of the femur of the 4th leg. The abdomen is orna- 

 mented with bands or spots of silvery pigment. 



Type, A. hortorum, Hentz. 



Distribution. Tropical and subtropical countries. 



The following four may be regarded as representative types of 

 the many species of this genus that inhabit British India : 



