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These are common on the Nilgiris and also upcountry in 

 Ceylon. The Nilgiri forms had the stabilimentum as a 

 single white line as diameter or none, while the Ceylon ones 

 always had none. 



Locality. Kotagiri, Nilgiris ; Dolosbage, Ceylon. 



47. Cyclom hybophora (Thor.) 



is recognized by the two very distinct tubercles on the 

 shoulders of the abdomen. The cocoons here are about 

 4 mm. long. There were four of them, each containing 

 about fifty eggs. These cocoons are attached to the stabili- 

 mentum, which, in this case, was a white line placed as a 

 radius to the circle of the orb-web. 



Locality. Madras Beach, Ennur ; Kotagiri, Nilgiris. 



A white Cyclosa (PI. V. fig. 7) which I obtained in Ceylon 

 has these two shoulder prominences and is probably merely a 

 variety of this species. It had the white ribbon of the stabili- 

 mentum as diameter with nine cocoons arranged along it. 

 These were about 5 mm. long and recalled in shape those of 

 Cyrtophora. They contained about thirty eggs in each. 



Locality. Dolosbage, Ceylon. 



48. Cyclosa mulmeinensis (Thor.). 



I have several examples of a beautiful little Cyclosa which 

 seems to be this species. All were found on orb-webs with 

 the stabilimentum as a radius only. The cocoons are yellow- 

 brown covered with black debris, and as many as five are 

 found within one outer case which is from 10 to 15 mm. 

 long. Each cocoon contains some forty eggs. Each cocoon- 

 case lies along the stabilimentum. 



The males and immature females have small separate orb- 

 webs of their own, apart from the others. In such cases 

 each spider is found at the centre of the web and there is no 

 stabilimentum. In one case the ? was at the centre of her 

 web resting on a whitish mass of threads (stabilimentum), to 

 which a single yellow-brown cocoon was attached. These 

 cocoons are evidently formed singly and then united into one 

 mass later on. In the case above examined, where there were 

 five cocoons within the mass, the first two contained spider- 

 lings almost ready to leave the cocoon, the third very 

 immature spiderlings and the last two eggs only. 



Locality. Ootacamund, Nilgiris (September). 



From the Nilgiris I have several species or varieties which 

 as yet I have been unable to identify. Some are distinctly 

 brown in colour, others have a pale tip to the long abdomen 



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