'50 Jilr. R. I. Pocock on a veio Trap-door fijpider. 



MoxiUcii simply coxiform, fringed with reddish hairs along 

 the anterior border, and having the anterior distal angle 

 furnished with a few black spiniform teeth. 



JV/Z^^j' completely pediform, clothed with long hairs, the 

 patella and tibia with the lower surface furnished laterally 

 beneath with a few setiform spines, the tarsal segment scopu- 

 late, the hairs being thick at the sides, but scanty on the 

 middle of the lower surface, terminated by a single, curved, 

 inferiorly dentate tooth. 



Legs. — The first, second, and third pairs subequal in length, 

 the tiiird being sliglitly the shortest, the fourth longer than 

 the rest almost by its two terminal segments ; clothed witii 

 liairs but not armed with spines, there being at most a few 

 sjjiniform setse scattered here and there. The first and second 

 pair with the two distal segments furnished with thick 

 undivided scopulffi ; the third pair with the scopulffi very 

 much reduced in size, but witli two terminal tufts of hair at 

 the base of the claws ; the fourth with similar terminal tufts 

 and with the scopula almost absent. Two simple strongly 

 curved claws terminating each leg. 



Labium united to the sternum, quadrate, wider than long, 

 its anterior border straight and armed with a row of black 

 spiniform teeth. 



Sternum longer than wide, ovate. 



Abdomen o\ lite; the superior spinners the longest, a very 

 little shorter than the patella of the third pair of legs, the 

 segments markedly decreasing in size from the base to the 

 apex, the apical segment very short and conical ; the inferior 

 spinners composed of a single segment, which is about half 

 the kngth of the basal segment of the superior spinners. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length 15 5 ; length 

 of cephalothorax 6*5, width 5'5 • distance of fovea from ante- 

 rior border 4; length of abdomen 9 ; length of palp 11, of 

 first leg 14*5, of second 14'5, of third 14*3^ of fourth 19 ; 

 width of sternum 2*5, length 3*5 ; length of superior spinner 2. 

 Two female sjiecimens in the Museum collection from 

 Ceylon. Tlie first, which has been selected as the type, was 

 taken by Mr. E. E. Green at Puuduloya ; the second was 

 obtained by jMr. Holdsworth. 



The nest of this spider, which ^Ir. Green brought with the 

 sp.ccimen, waSi found on the trunk of a tree. There are two 

 doors set close together, with their hinges in contact, and 

 consequently opening back to back. These doors, more or 

 less inegularly circular in shape, are thin and laminate, and 

 consist of small coherent lamelliform particles, which appear 

 to be pieces of the epidermis of the leaf of some flowering 



