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284. Dendrolycosa stauntoni, sp. n. 



$ . Colour : integument yellowish brown, carapace with a broad 

 white band extending almost to the margin on each side ; abdomen 

 covered above and below with whitish hairs, its upper side with a 

 median dark band, bordered with white in front ; legs covered with 

 whitish hairs intermixed with black ; extremities of the segments 

 darker ; lower side of femora infuscate. Carapace much longer 

 than broad, as long as tibia of 2nd leg ; eyes of anterior line very 

 slightly recurved, subequal, about a diameter apart, and half a 

 diameter from the laterals. Abdomen oval ; vulva with a median 

 excavation bordered in front by a ^V* -shaped crest. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 20, carapace 7'5, 1st leg 28, 

 4th leg 31. 



Loc. S. India : Bangalore (Staunton). 



285. Dendrolycosa robusta, T/iorell, Spiders of Burma, p. 224, 1895 



(Therimachus). 



$ . Closely resembling the preceding in form and colour. Vulva 

 with anterior transverse crest more ^-shaped. 



J . Smaller. Tibia of palp twice as long as patella, longer than 

 tarsus, the apophysis consisting of a single anteriorly-directed 

 pointed spur. 



Measurements in mm. $. Total length 22, carapace 8-5, 1st 

 leg 30, 4th 31-5. rf . Total length 26. 



Loc. Burma : Kyeikpadam and Tharrawaddy (Gates). 



The following species, based upon immature forms, are probably 

 congeneric with the foregoing, but are specifically indeter- 

 minable : 



Sphedanus spadicarius, Simon, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, p. 262, 1897. 

 Loc. North Guzerat. 



Sphedanus marginatus, Simon, J. A. S. B. Ivi, p. 284,1887. 

 Loc. Port Blair (Andamans). 



Genus THALASSIUS, Simon. 



Thalassius, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, p. 13,1885; Hist. Nat. 

 Araign. ii, p. 300, 1898. 



Facial area evenly inclined as in Eucamptopus, and clypeus ex- 

 ceeding ocular quadrangle, but quadrangle scarcely narrower in 

 front and slightly longer than wide; anterior and posterior median 

 eyes subequal as in Dendrolycosa ; eyes of anterior line very strongly 

 recurved, the anterior laterals nearly equally distant from the re- 

 maining three on each side. 



Type, T. maryinellus, Sim. 



Distribution. Ethiopian Eegion ; Madagascar; Oriental Eegion 

 as far as Solomon Islands. 



