PALYSTES. 265 



323. Pandercetes celatus, Pocock, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xii, p. 753, 



1899. 



$ . Distinguishable from the preceding by having the under 

 side of the femora of the 1st and 2nd legs and of the tibiae of the 

 3rd and 4th a rich blackish brown tinged with bronze. 



Total length 22 ram., carapace 8. 



Loc. India : Trivandrum in Travancore (Ferguson) . 



324. Pandercetes xnacilentus, ThorelL Spiders of Burma, p. 267. 



1895. 



c? . Colour : body clothed above with yellowish-white hairs varied 

 with brownish patches ; lower side of cephalothorax, abdomen, 

 and legs clothed with whitish hairs. Carapace about as wide as 

 long, half the length of patella and tibia of 4th leg. Legs not 

 plumose. Palp with tibial apophysis double, the upper branch 

 slender and pointed, the lower broad and short. 



Total length 11 mm., carapace 5. 



Loc. S. Tenasserim (Gates). 



Genus PALYSTES, L. Koch. 



Palystes, L. Koch, Arachn. Austral, p. 701, 1875 ; Simon, Hist. Nat. 

 Araign. ii, p. 65, 1897. 



Carapace longer than in ffeteropoda, more narrowed in front ; 

 eyes of posterior line straight, subequal, the laterals not prominent ; 

 eyes of anterior line straight or procurved, laterals much larger 

 than medians; clypeus low; 1st leg in $ longer than 2nd. 



Type, P. eastnneus, Latreille. 



Distribution. Tropical Africa ; India to Australia. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



a. Entirely pale above and below P.Jlavidus, p. 266. 



b. Variegated on under side of body and legs P. kochi, p. 265. 



325. Palystes kochi, Simon, Act. Soc. Linn. Bord. xxxiv, p. 265, 1881 ; 



Thorell, Spiders of Surma, p. 268, 1895 : melanichnys, id. Ann. 

 Mus. Genova, xxx, p. 53, 1890. 



$ . Colour: integument of upper side of body and limbs covered 

 with yellowish-white hairs ; mandibles blackish, sternum and coxae 

 black ; femora of 1st and 2nd legs and in a lesser degree of 3rd 

 covered with close-set, alternating zigzag stripes of white and 

 brown ; tibiae white with basal and apical black band ; lower side 

 of abdomen patched and lined with brown. Carapace with sum- 

 mits of eyes of anterior line on a level, laterals about one-fourth 

 of their diameter above edge of clypeus. Lateral lobes of vulva 

 meeting posteriorly in a long suture and circumscribing in front a 

 transversely oval pit. 



c? . Smaller : femora and tibiae not variegated below ; tibial 

 apophysis of palp short, pointed, and directed downwards. 



