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prolonged into a longish subcylindrical tail. Vulva with scape 

 stout at base, downcurled at apex. 



Total length up to 10 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon : Peradeniya (Freeman) ; Trincomali (Yerburi/), 

 India: Ootacamund (Hampsori); Jaunsar, Thadyar, 2500 ft. (Old- 

 ham). Burma : Tounghoo, Tharrawaddy, Rangoon, Tenasserim, &c. 

 (Oates 6f Fea). Indo- and Austro-Malaysia. 



240. AranCUS Tinicolor, Doleschall, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, 

 xiii, p. 419, 1857 ; Thorell, Spiders of Surma, p. 171, 1895 (for 

 synonymy) (Epeira). 



Prevailing colour reddish brown, lightly infuscate on the upper 

 side of the abdomen, yellow below and laterally. Carapace broad, 

 coarsely granular or tubercular ; eyes of posterior line very dis- 

 tinctly recurved ; lateral eyes widely separated, quadrangle wider 

 in front. Legs strong but short, at most weakly spined ; anterior 

 femora tubercular. Abdomen somewhat heart-shaped, broadly 

 truncate in front, with large prominent shoulder-points, pointed 

 behind, high and prominent above spinners. Vulva small, without 

 scape. 



Total length about 20 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon. N.E. India, Naga Hills. Burma: Tharrawaddy 

 (Oates). 



A. acrobalia, Thorell (Spiders of Burma, p. 173, 1895 (Epeira)), 

 based upon an immature female from Tounghoo (Oates), is closely 

 allied to this species. 



241. Araneus dehaanii, Doleschall, Verh. Nat. Vereen. Nederl. Indie, v, 

 no. 5, p. 33, t. ii, fig. 7, 1859 ; Thorell, Ann. 

 Mm. Genova, xxviii, p. 125, 1890; id. Spidersqf 

 Burma, p. 170, 1895 (for synonymy) (Epeira). 



Colour: carapace reddish, blacker late- 

 rally, clothed with white hairs ; legs 

 and palpi blackish red, banded ; abdomen 

 dull yellowish brown laterally and be- 

 low, variable above, the area between the 

 shoulder-points and the extremity often 

 deep reddish chocolate, yellow at the sides, 

 sometimes with a few yellow spots in 

 front ; the yellow lateral portion some- 

 times broken up into a series of large 

 yellow spots. Carapace granular above, 

 with a conical tubercle on each side above 

 the lateral eyes. Abdomen triangular, 

 broad, with large sharp shoulder-points in 

 front, pointed behind, and ending in three 

 prominences set in a vertical scries. Vulva 

 small, with very stout scape. 

 Total length about 24 mm. 

 Loc. Ceylon: Trincomali (Yerbury). India: Kanara (Millet). 



Burma : Tharrawaddy, Bhamo, Tenasserim, &c. (Oates $ Fea) r 



Indo- and Austro-Malaysia. 



. 72. Araneus 

 dehaanii, $, Xf. 



