HIPPASA. 



287. Euprosthenops ellioti, O. P. Cambridge, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 567, 

 t. Ivii, fig. 6 (Podophthalma). 



5 . Colour : carapace pale with a dark band on each side, clothed 

 with silvery- white hairs ; legs clothed with olive-brown hairs 

 varied with white, femora thickly spotted ; tibiae black at base and 

 apex ; abdomen darkish above, with median lanceolate band in 

 front, bordered at the sides with a broad pale band, sides and 

 lower surface covered with golden-yellow hairs, the former speckled 

 with brown. Carapace shorter than tibia of 3rd leg. Legs very 

 long, 4, 1, 2, 3 in length. Abdomen narrowed posteriorly, more 

 than twice as long as broad. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 21, carapace 7'5, 1st leg 41, 

 4th 46. 



Loc. S. India : Chingleput (Jambunaihari). 



Genus HIPPASA, Simon. 



Hippasa, Simon, Bull. Soc, Zool. France, x, p. 31, 1885 ; Hist. Nat. 

 Araign. ii, p. 326, 1898. 



Differing from Lycosa in having the posterior spinners consider- 

 ably longer than the anterior, the posterior eyes more widely 

 separated, and the eyes of the anterior line a little exceeding those 

 of the second line in width. 



Type, H. agelenoides, Simon. 



Distribution. Africa; Madagascar; Arabia; British India; 

 Malayasia. 



These Spiders spin a silken thread which expands into a sheet- 

 like snare. 



Synopsis of the principal Indian Species. 



a. Lower surface of abdomen with a thick fringe 



of hair on each side H. pantherina, p. 250. 



b. Lower surface of abdomen not laterally 



fringed. 



fl 1 . Of large size ; carapace 8-9 mm. long ; pit 

 of vulva exposed. 



a 2 . Pit of vulva semicircular H. lycosina, p. 250. 



b 2 . Pit of vulva transversely elliptical .... H. olivacea, p. 250. 

 b 1 . Smaller : carapace up to 5 mm. ; pit of 



vulva roofed over. 

 a 3 . Plate of vulva produced into a long 



tongue-like process H. holmerte, p. 251. 



b 3 . Plate of vulva not produced into a long 



tongue-like process. 

 a 4 . Process of vulva triangularly pointed 



behind If. pisaurina, p. 250. 



6*. Process of vulva squarely truncate 



behind H. agelenoides, p. 251. 



