250 LYCOSID.E. 



288. Hippasa pantherina, Focock, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xii, p. 752, 

 .1899 (= greenallije, Simon, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, p. 31, 1885) 



(? of Blackwall). 



$ . Colour : integument ochraceous, clothed with silky greyish 

 hairs ; carapace with median narrow pale stripe and broader pale 

 border ; abdomen with a pair of longitudinal dark bands in front 

 above and transverse dark bands behind, the darker markings em- 

 phasized by pale lines ; legs obscurely banded above, sternum with 

 median black stripe. Legs and upper side of abdomen beset with 

 longish setae ; under side of abdomen with two thick bands of 

 long setae. Carapace as long as patella and tibia of 4th leg, slightly 

 longer than those of 1st, and than protarsus of 4th. Vulva con- 

 sisting of a large, yellow, thickly-hairy plate, produced posteriorly 

 into a pair of blackish angular processes separated by a median 

 angular notch. 



c? . Like the $ , but with much longer legs. 



Measurements in mm. 5 . Total length 16, carapace 7'5, 1st leg 

 21-5, 4th 27. 6 . Total length 15, carapace 7, 1st leg 26, 4th 33. 



Loc. Ceylon: Trincomali (Yerbury). India: Trivandrum (Fer- 

 guson) ; Ootacamund (Hamp&on) ; Coimbatore ; Ramnad ; Bangalore 

 (Staunton) ; Poona district ( Wrouyhton) E. Khandesh (Madan). 



289. Hippasa lycosina, sp. n. 



$ . As large as the preceding, but rather differently coloured, 

 the pale bands on the carapace more clearly defined, the legs not 

 banded, and the pattern of the abdomen less distinct. Carapace 

 lower ; legs and abdomen not thickly hirsute and without crest of 

 setae on under side of abdomen. Vulva consisting of a small brown 

 plate impressed posteriorly with a nearly semicircular, posteriorly- 

 open pit. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 20, carapace 9*5, 1st leg 26, 

 4th 34. 



Loc. India: Eastern district of Poona (Irani); Kanara ; Nasik 

 (Millet) ; Uran (Aitken). 



290. Hippasa plivacea, Thorell, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxv, p. 297, 1887 : 



simonis, id. ibid. p. 301 (Diapontia). 



Nearly allied to H. lycosina, but with longer legs, the carapace 

 shorter than the patella and tibia of the 1st and than the protarsus 

 of the 4th leg. Vulva much as in //. lycosina, but with the pit 

 transversely elliptical. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 17, carapace 8, 1st leg 24, 

 4th 30-5. 



Loc. Burma: Rangoon, Tharrawaddy, Tenasserim, &c. (Outes, 

 Fea). 



291. Hippasa pisaurina, sp. n. 



$ . Much smaller than the preceding species, but very similarly 



