PEUCETIA. 255 



Hunting Spiders, spinning no web, living amongst grass and 

 other plants and fastening their cocoons to the leaves or stalks. 



The following genera are represented in India : 



a. Eyes of the posterior line lightly procurved ; fang- 



groove of mandible unarmed PEUCETIA, p. 255. 



b. Eyes of posterior line very strongly procurved ; 



fang-groove of mandible weakly armed .... OXYOPES*. 



Genus PEUCETIA, Thorell. 



Pencetia, Thorell, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal (3) vii,p. 37,1869; Simon, 

 Hist. Nat. Araiffn. ii, p. 378, 1898. 



Characters as above. 



Type, P. viridis, Blackwall. 



Distribution. Tropical and temperate countries. 



Synopsis of Indian Species^. 



a. Carapace and limbs not varied with black 



spots and lines P. prasina, p. 256. 



b. Carapace and limbs varied Avith black -spots 



and lines. 

 a 1 . Clypeus with obsolete lateral stripe ; 



mandibles spotted in front P. viridana, p. 255. 



i 1 . Clypeus with distinct lateral stripe ; 



mandibles with distinct median stripe. 

 2 . Plates of vulva posteriorly produced 



and acuminate P. yraminea, p. 256. 



i 2 . Plates of vulva not acuminate pos- 

 teriorly P. procera, p. 256. 



301. Peucetia viridana, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxviii, p. 220, t. xx, 

 fig. 1, 1869 (Sphasus) : nigropunctata, Simon, Ann. Mus. Genova 

 xx, p. 365, 1884 (Peucetia). 



Fig. 86. Peucetia viridana, X 2. 



* This genus, which is omitted from the present volume, is represented by 

 many species, mostly of small size, and recognizable by their varied colouring 

 of silvery white and darker stripes. 



t Peucetia eleqans, Blackwall (A. M. N. H. (3) xiv, p. 39, ]864 (Pasithea)\ from 

 the " East Indies," differs from those here described in having a black band on 

 the lower side of the abdomen. Probably it belongs to the genus Oxyopes. 



