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LEUCAUGE (White), 1841. 



Leucauge = Argyroepeira (Em.), 1884. 



31. Leucauge celebesiana (Walck.). 



Very common on its orb-web on almost any bush on the 

 Nilgiris ; web slung horizontally between the branches or 

 bushes, the spider hanging inverted below the centre of 

 the web. 



Locality. Madras city; Nawalapitiya, Ceylon; Coonoor 

 and Kotagiri, Nilgiris. 



32. Leucauge ditissima (Thor.). 



I have specimens resembling this species very much, but 

 they have, when alive, on the abdomen three brilliant red 

 dots which turn silvery after being kept in spirit. There is 

 a pair of shoulder prominences. 



Locality. Peradeniya, Ceylon ; Kotagiri. This species I 

 have not found on the plains. 



33. Leucauge argentata (0. P.-Camb.). 



Found on orb-web like that of L. celebesiana. 

 Locality. Madras city ; Kotagiri, Nilgiris. Not pre- 

 viously reported from South India. 



34. Leucauge ventralis (Thor.). 



Spider with long fore-legs stretched out in front, £ and $ 

 found resting on a twig of a tea-bush to which came a thread 

 from the orb- web close by, stretched out below and between 

 tea-bushes. The cephalothorax and legs in the living speci- 

 men are bright green. 



Locality. Dolosbage, Ceylon; Carolina, Nilgiris (5600 feet) ; 

 previously reported from Burma only. 



35. Leucauge (Callinethis) elegans (Thor.) = Argyroepeira 

 faatigata (Sim). 



Found on large orb-web between tea-bushes. ? laid eggs 

 in the specimen-tube the day after her capture. There 

 were 890 eggs within the cocoon. This species is easily 

 recognized by the last pair of legs having a characteristic 

 bushy pad of hairs on the distal half of each tibia. The 

 fleecy cocoon measures 14 mm. and 5 mm. at greatest axes. 

 Thejsilk is yellowish. 



