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the occipital portion of it. The colour is a dark reddish yellow-brown, and there are some 

 coarse greyish hairs on the surface, which is also finely punctuose. 



The eyes are small, and placed in three widely separated groups ; the central group of 

 four eyes (forming a quadrangular figure whose anterior side is the shorter, and its posterior 

 side the longer) is placed near the lower part of the foreside of the caput, the height of the 

 clypeus rather exceeding the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes, which are a little the 

 largest of the eight. These of each lateral pair are placed obliquely, close above the insertion 

 of the f alces, and separated from each other by an interval of at least the diameter of the fore- 

 lateral eyes, which are larger than the hind-lateral. 



The legs are short and slender ; there is very little difference in the length of those of 

 the first, second, and fourth pairs, the third pair being the shortest. They are of a dull yellow 

 colour tinged with orange, annulated with reddish yellow-brown, and furnished with hairs 

 and slender bristles only. 



The palpi are short, slender, and similar to the legs in colour and armature. 



The fa Ices are rather long, strong, prominent at their base in front, and slightly diver- 

 gent, obliquely truncated at their fore extremity on the inner side, the oblique portion being 

 armed with a single row of short strong teeth and long bristly hairs. Their colour is rather 

 paler than that of the cephalothorax, with a darker suffusion across the middle. 



The maxillae are strong and considerably inclined towards the lahium, which is small 

 and of a curvilinear triangular form. The colour of the maxillae is yellow-brown ; that of the 

 labium paler. 



The sternum is of a similar form to that of the labium, only of course much larger, and 

 with its apex pointed in the opposite direction ; it is of a dull orange yellow-brown colour, 

 with some red-brown marginal indentations between the points of insertion of the legs. 



The abdomen is large, of an oval form, more pointed before than behind, where it is 

 very bluff and rounded. The general convexity is great, though the upper surface is rather 

 flat, and it projects greatly over the base of the cephalothorax. On each side of the upper 

 part is a longitudinal row of small pointed (or conical) protuberances, and another longitudinal 

 row of three similar protuberances bisects the hinder part of the abdomen ; the foremost of 

 these last is nearly in a straight, transverse line with the hinder one of each of the other row. 

 The upper part of the abdomen is of a dull golden-yellowish colour, marked on each side of 

 the central line with blackish-brown, including the inside half of each of the conical pro- 

 tuberances, and leaving a clear, broadish, longitudinal, median yellow band, from which two 

 curved lateral stripes, edged with black, issue on each side from its hinder half, and a 

 prominent point on each side of its fore part; the sides are obliquely rugulose, and, with the 

 under side, are yellowish, marked with dark brown ; some of the lower lateral markings are 

 oblique, and from the genital aperture two parallel, blackish streaks, close together, run to the 

 spinners. The epigyne connected with the genital aperture is prominent, tapering, pointed, 

 and a little directed backwards. 



This spider is remarkable from the genus having only been previously recorded as 

 indigenous to Ceylon. 



Sab. Murree to Sind Valley, July 14th to August 5th, 1873. 



67. CHORIZOOPES CONGENER, sp. n. 

 Adult female : length 2 lines. 

 The caput is greatly elevated, broad, well rounded on all sides above, and highest at the 



