CLUBIONID.E. 257 



Family CLUBIONIME. 



Hunting Spiders in which the mandibles are powerful, with 

 strongly-toothed fang-groove: the maxillae project forwards, and 

 are not inclined on the labium and not impressed ; the legs are 

 powerful, strongly spined, with tarsi and protarsi scopulate ; 

 tarsi furnished with ungual tufts and only two claws; anterior 

 spinners in contact ; colulus absent. 



The principal Indian species of this family belong to the sub- 

 families Selenopince and Heteropodince, which resemble each other in 

 being laterigrade and in having the maxillae furnished apically 

 with a very thick tuft of hairs. Their differences may be 

 tabulated as follows : 



a. Claws unarmed ; median eyes arranged 



in a recurved crescent Selenopince, p. 257. 



b. Claws armed with teeth ; median eyes 



forming a normal quadrangle Jfeleropodincn, p. 259. 



Subfamily SELENOPIN^l. 



Characters as above. 



Genus SELENOPS, Latreille. 



Selenops, Latreille, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxx, p. 579, 1819; 

 Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. ii, p. 26, 1897. 



Carapace flat, wider than long; eyes of posterior line recurved, 

 laterals prominent, medians close to the anterior medians and 

 forming with them a crescentically recurved line, anterior laterals 

 far from the medians, small ; clypeus almost absent, fang-groove 

 of mandible with two posterior teeth. 



Type, S. radiatus, Latr. 



Distribution. Tropical and subtropical countries. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



a. Protarsi of anterior legs with two pairs of 



spines S. radiatus, p. 257. 



b. Protarsi of anterior legs with three pairs of 



spines S. montigena, p. 258. 



305. Selenops radiatus, Latreille, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxx, p. 579, 

 1819 (Thomisus) ; Sinum, Hist. Nat. Araign. ii, pp. 26 & 27, 1897 

 (Selenops) : malabariensis, Simon, Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. xxxiv, 

 p. 234, 1881 ; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, p. 14, 1885 : birmanicus 

 Thorell, Spiders of .Burma, p. 261, 1895. 



2 . Colour variable, integument yellowish or brown, legs usually 

 banded, hairy clothing mostly yellowish or mouse-brown. Carapace 



