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and tibiae with black rings, femora of anterior two pairs spotted 

 below ; ventral area of abdomen not so black. In var. sordidatus 

 the whole integument is blackish, and the upper side of the abdo- 

 men is scarcely varied. Cleft of vulva consisting of a short oval 

 space at posterior end of the plate. 



Total length 24 mm., carapace 10, 2nd leg 40. 



Loc. Burma: Minhla (Comotto) ; Tharrawaddy (Gates). 



334. Sparassus lutescens, Thorell, Bih. Si\ Vet.-Akad. Handl. xx, 



pt. iv, no. 4, p. 12, 1894; id. Spiders of Burma, p. 272, 1895 

 (Midamus). 



2 . Of small size, entirely pale, the protarsi sometimes spotted 

 above at base and apex. Carapace as wide as long. Vulva with 

 lateral lobes separated throughout their length by a narrow median 

 cleft, each lobe divided by a transverse groove into an anterior 

 larger, darker, and a posterior, smaller, paler portion. 



Total length 10 mm., carapace 3-5, 2nd leg 19. 



Loc. Burma : Tharrawaddy (Oates). 



335. Sparassus tener, Thorell, K. Si: Vet.-Akad. Handl. xxiv, pt. 1, 



no. 2, p. 80, 1891. 



d . Colour much as in S. lutescens. Palp with two long, strong, 

 forwardly-directed tibial apophyses, one external at base, the other 

 inferior at apex. 



Total length 7'5 mm., carapace 3-25, 2nd leg 22. 



Loc. Assam. 



336. Sparassus tarandus, Simon, Bull. Mm. cTHist. Nat. 1897, p. 294. 



d . Colour pale, carapace with radiating dark stripes ; abdomen 

 with median dorsal dark band ; mandible brown. Palp with two 

 tibial apophyses as in S. tener : one at apex, long, slender, acute 

 and sinuous ; the other basal, ending in a strong compressed trifid 

 extremity. 



Length 12 mm. 



Loc. Karachi (Maindron). 



337. Sparassus stimulator, Simon, Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. x, p. 258, 



1897. 



c? . Nearly allied to S.phipsoni, but, according to the description, 

 differing in having the patella of the palp unspined, exceeding the 

 tibia in breadth and equalling it in length. 



Total length 18 mm. 



Loc. Himalayas, 2000-2800 ft. (Smythies). 



The following species of Sparassus, based upon immature 

 specimens, are not classifiable : 



Sparassus fugax, O. P. Cambridge, Araneidea, Second Yarkand Ejped. 



p. 73, 1885. Lpc. Murree to Sind Valley (Stoliczka). 

 Sparassus patagiatus, Simon, Mem. Soc. Zool, Fr. x, p. 256, 1897. 

 Dehra Dun (Smythies). 



