266 CLUBIOXID.-E. 



Measurements in mm. $ . Total length 29, carapace 15, 1st 

 leg 58, 4th leg 50. $ . Total length 21, carapace 10, 1st leg 49, 

 4th 42. 



Loc. Sylhet. Burma : Rangoon, Tenasserim (Oates fy Fea). 

 Also Sumatra. 



3:26. Palystes flavidus, Simon, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixv, p. 489, 1896. 



$ . Differing from P. Tcochi in being smaller, and entirely pale 

 above and below. Eyes of anterior line strongly procurved, laterals 

 and medians subcontiguous, upper edge of former just above centres 

 of medians, laterals more than half a diameter above edge of clypeus. 

 Vulva with lateral lobes widely separated by an oblong space 

 occupied by a black V-shaped skeletal piece. 



Measurements in mm. Total length 15, carapace 7, 1st leg 28, 

 4th 23. 



Loc. India : Trichinopoli (Simon) Allahabad (Ryves) ; Calcutta. 



Genus SPARASSUS, Walck. 



Sparassus, Walckenaer, Tabl. Aran. p. 39, 1805; Simon, Hist. Nat. 

 Araiffn. ii. p. 46, 1897. 



Of much the same form and size as Heteropoda, but with the 

 eyes of the posterior line straight or slightly procurved, the 

 laterals sessile, those of the anterior line usually straight and 

 subequal, the laterals not larger than the medians ; clypeus very 

 low ; tibiae of anterior legs with only two pairs of inferior spines. 



Type, S. argelasius, "Walck. 



Distribution. Tropical countries. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 

 Males. 



a. Tibia of palp with basal and apical apophyses. 



a 1 . Basal apophysis strong and trifid S. tarandus, p. 269. 



b 1 . Basal apophysis slender and undivided. ... S. tener, p. 269. 



b. Tibia of palp with only apical apophysis. 



a 2 . A triangular process beneath apophysis . . S. wroughtoni, p. 268. 

 b 2 . No strong process beneath apophysis. 



a 3 . Abdomen black below in middle S. lamarcki, p. 267. 



b 3 . Abdomen uniformly pale below. 



a 4 . Mandibles brown; carapace as wide 



as long S. impudicus, p. 268. 



b*. Mandibles black ; carapace longer than 



wide. 

 a 5 . Patella of palp unspined, wider than 



tibia S. stimulator, p. 269. 



b 5 . Patella of palp with external spine, 



not wider than tibia S. phipsoni, p. 268. 



Females. 



a. Lateral lobes of vulva almost meeting in the 



middle line throughout their length S. lutescens, p. 269. 



