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anterior medians. Fang-groove of mandible armed behind with 4 

 strong teeth. Legs long, spiny ; tarsi long, slender, and flexible. 



Type, E. coronatus, Poc. 



Distribution. S. India. 



280. Eucamptopus coronatus, sp. n. 



c? . Colour a tolerably uniform dark chocolate-brown, paler 

 beneath, clothed with olive-brown hairs ; clypeus and anterior half 

 of sides of carapace covered with snow-white hairs. Carapace 

 almost as wide as long ; eyes of anterior line straight, subequally 

 spaced, medians a little the larger. Legs long and slender, with 

 long flexible tarsi. Palpi longer than the carapace by the length 

 of the tarsus; tibia slightly exceeding patella, incrassate, the 

 apophysis short, stout, subquadrate. 



Total length 17 mm., carapace 8-5, 1st leg 43, 4th 46. 



Loc. S. India : Tinnevelly (Barber). 



Genus HYGROPODA, Thorell. 



Hygropoda, Thorell, Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. xxvi, pt. iii, p. 4, 1894 ; 

 Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. ii, p. 315, 1898. 



Resembling the preceding in having the tarsi of all the legs, 

 with exception of the 3rd pair, long and flexible, but differing in 

 that the clypeus is less in height than the ocular quadrangle ; the 

 eyes are more scattered, and there are only 3 teeth on the posterior 

 border of the fang-groove of the mandible. 



Type, H. prognaiha, Thorell. 



Distribution. Tropical Africa ; Bourbon ; Oriental Region ; 

 S. America. 



281. Hygropoda procera, Thorell, Spiders of Surma, p. 222, 1895. 



5 . Colour : carapace with two parallel dark bands above ; abdo- 

 men yellowish above, with median dark anteriorly-bifurcating line 

 and a lateral posteriorly sinuous line ; pale below ; legs and sternnm 

 pale, with whitish hairs. Carapace a little longer than broad; eyes 

 of anterior line slightly procurved, the medians the largest. Legs 

 very long and slender. Abdomen sublanceolate ; vulva large, 

 deeply excavated, and surmounted in front by a pair of elevated 

 tubercles and ending behiud in a pair of smaller tubercles. 



Total length 12 mm., carapace 5 - 75, 1st leg 46*5. 



Loc. Burma: Tharrawaddy (Gates). 



Q-enus PEKENETHIS, L. Koch. 



Perenethis, L. Koch, Arach. Austral, p. 980, 1878. 

 Tetragonophthalma, Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. ii, p 293, 1898 (not 

 of Karsch). 



Differs from Dendrolycosa especially in having the eyes of the 



