SMEEINGOPUS. 239 



$ . Colour : carapace yellow, with median brown patch and 

 brown stripe on clypeus ; legs 

 yellow, with brown patellae and 

 a brown ring round extremity 

 of femora and tibiae ; abdomen 

 greyish yellow, ornamented with 

 three rows of dusky grey spots. 

 Mandible and palpus normal. 

 Vulva consisting of a brown, 

 thickly horny plate, with the 

 posterior border concave. 



<3 . Like $ , but with palp very 

 thick and mandibles furnished 

 externally, with large serrated 



Fig. 81. Artema atlanta, J, X 2. , , 



Total length about 8 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon: Jaffna, Trincomali (Yerbury). India: Travan- 

 core (Ferguson) Gruntakal ; Chingleput (Jambunathan) Dekkan ; 

 Tanna (Edie)- Meerut ; eastern district of Poona (Irani)- 

 E. Khandesh; Karachi (Townsend). Burma: Tharrawaddy(Oates). 

 Tropical countries. 



Genus SMERINGOPTTS, Simon. 



Smeringopus, Simon., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 94 ; id. Hist. Nat. 

 Araiyn. i, p. 476, 1893. 



Eyes of anterior and posterior line recurved, ocular quadrangle 

 longer than wide, space between posterior medians about twice 

 the diameter of an eye. Abdomen long, narrow, subcylindrical. 

 Sternum broadly truncate behind. 



Type, S. elongatus, Vinson. 



Distribution. Tropical countries of the world. 



272. Smeringopus elongatus, Vinson, Aran. Reunion, etc. p. 135, 

 t. iii, fig. 5, 1863 : distinctus, O. P. Cambridge, Journ. Linn. Soc.. 

 Zool. x, p. 380, t. xi, figs. 28, 29, 30, 1869 (Pholcus). 



$ . Colour : carapace yellow, with radiating triangular dark 

 patches ; legs yellow-brown, with pale white band round end of 

 femora and tibiae ; abdomen greyish white, ornamented above with 

 a double series of black spots and at the sides with large black 

 patches, ventral surface with a broad reddish-brown median band, 

 divided posteriorly by a pale stripe. 



c? . Like $ , but with palpus much inflated, and the mandible 

 armed in front below with a small tooth. 



Total length 6 mm. 



Loc. Ceylon. India : Trevandrum (Ferguson), Pondichery, 

 Dekkan. Burma: Eangoon, Tharrawaddy, Tenasserim (Gates, 

 Fea). Andaman Islands. Indo- and Austro-Malaysia, and tropical 

 Africa, &c. 



