Cteniform Spiders of Ceylon, Burmah, ce. B45 
Ctenus Hoset, sp. n. 
(Pl. LV. figs. 11, 17, 20, 28-30.) 
Measurements.— g. Tot. len. 17 mm., carap. 9°5; legs 1. 
34, ii. 30, iii. 25, iv. absent; ant. marg. of carap. 3°75; 
pat.+ tib. i. 12, 11. 8. 
?. Tot. len. 22 mm., carap. 10; legs i. 29, ii. 27, ili. 23°5, iv. 
33°5; ant. marg. of carap. 5; pat.+tib. i. 10, ii. 8, iv. 9°75. 
$.— Colour. Carapace mahogany-brown, with broad 
central band of silvery-grey pubescence, with a pair of obscure 
dark spots behind eyes and attenuate at base of carapace. 
Marginal grey band broad. Abdomen with double dorsal 
series of obscure dark spots, or with broad pale dentated band, 
the marginal interstices picked out with black. Dark brown 
beneath, with two more or less distinct white lines and two 
shorter ones immediately behindvulva. Legspaler mahogany- 
brown, very indistinctly annulated beneath femora. Apical 
half of tibia of all four pairs of legs (iv. absent?) clothed 
with silvery pubescence. Coxe of legs clothed with silvery- 
grey pubescence above. 
?.—Colour similar to that of the male, but no silvery- 
white pubescence on tibiz or carapace. Pubescence rufous 
grey. 
3 .—Structure. Carapace gibbous behind, abruptly inclined 
to base. In other respects similar to that of C. Thorellii. 
? .—Structure. Carapace horizontal above, abruptly in- 
clined to base. Otherwise similar to that of C. Thorellit. 
Pedipalp. Tibia one third longer than broad, with a 
short, broad, curved, dark apophysis on outer side, squarely 
but irregularly truncate at apex. Tarsus short and very 
broad, produced at base above into a stout pointed cone, 
terminating in a thin aculeate spur, strongly curved, directed 
outwards. 
Palpal organs broad, simple. Central lobe small, produced 
on inner side at base; beyond its apex are two short spurs, 
lying close together, their points directed outwards. 
Vulva as broad as long, convex; a black corneous margin 
encloses a transverse oval paler space, including a low convex 
tubercle on each side, and converges behind, forming a narrow 
transverse plate curving downwards. On each side of this 
plate is a corneous dentiform process, its point directed 
inwards. 
Two females and a male of this large and handsome 
Ctenus were taken at Sarawak by Mr. C. H. Hose, while a 
male was also taken in Borneo by Dr. Kiikenthal. This 
species, though larger, closely resembles in general appear- 
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