Arachnida, etc. 161 



state, tlie tubercles project more or less above the general level of 

 the skin. A cluster of the cocoons of this species, strung together 

 in the manner characteristic of the species of Ci/closa, was also 

 procured by Mr. Andrews. 



According to Simon this species occurs in India, Arabia, and 

 South Africa, as well as in ATalaysia. 



Family SPARASSID^. 

 12. Heteropoda listeri, sp.n. (PL XVI, Figs. 4, 4a-d.) 



Heteropodu venutoria (Liun.), Pocock: P.Z.S., 1888, p. 561 (not veuatoria, Linn.). 



Colour. — Carapace castaneous, with pale posterior transverse 

 band ; thickly clothed with liairs of almost a mustard-yellow hue 

 at the sides, more rusty red above ; mandibles black or ferruginous, 

 the upper half thicklj' clothed with long yellow bristles ; legs 

 ferruginous, distally infuscate, clothed with yellowish -grey hairs, 

 jialer on the femora than on the tibiae ; sternum and coxte deep 

 reddish-black ; upper side of abdomen covered with yellowish or 

 reddish hairs in front, with darker hairs intermixed with blackish 

 patches behind ; lower surface darker in the middle than at the 

 sides, the sides yellow, the median area greyish black or pale 

 gi'ey, with a pair of narrow darker lines. 



Carapace a little longer than broad, low, longitudinally hori- 

 zontal above, the ocular region lightly depressed ; ej'es of jDosterior 

 line slightly reciu'ved, their anterior edges nearlj^ level, the 

 median a little more than a diameter apart ; eyes of anterior line 

 nearly straight, their upper edges in a straight line, the laterals 

 onlj- about one-fourth larger than the medians, the laterals only 

 about half their diameter above the edge of the clypeus ; carapace 

 about as long as tibia of lirst leg, slightly longer than that of 

 fourth, the width just about equal to tibia of third. 



Zeffs 2, 1, 4, 3 ; the second overlapping first by more than the 

 length of its tarsus, third just surpassing middle of pi'otarsus of 

 second, fourth sui-passing third by about half the length of its 

 tarsus. 



Vulva (as in Fig. 4a). 



(J closely resembling 9 except in length of legs ; carapace 

 about equal to half the length of the patella and tibia of first ; 

 third leg not reaching midtUe of protarsus of second. 



Palpus (as in Figs. 4J, c, d). 



Measurements (in millimetres). — 9 Total length, 19; length of 

 carapace 8';), width 8, length of first leg 34, of second 38, of third 

 31, of fourth 32, of palpus 11. $ Total length, 16-5; length of 

 carapace 8-5, of first leg 44, of second 52, of third 39, of fourth 

 38, of palpus 11. 



