Ctentform Spiders of Ceylon, Burmah, &c. d47 
Pedipalp. Tibia four times longer than wide, furnished on 
outside at apex with a pair of excentrieally curving spines or 
slender spurs; the lower compressed, sinuous, bordered , spirali- 
form, its apex aculeate, directed upwards ; the upper spur very 
slender, but broadly dilate at base, its inner basal margin 
irregularly denticulate or serrate, curving upwards, semi- 
circular, attenuate towards apex, slightly sinuous imme- 
diately before apex, which is dilate beneath and curved 
strongly downwards. Tarsus one half longer than broad, 
bulb small, central lobe four times longer than broad, re- 
curved beneath at anterior margin; a “short curved spur 
represents the unca. 
Colour similar to that of female. 
? .—Structure. Spines and general characters similar to 
those of Thorelliz. Hyes similar to those in the male. 
Colour, Carapace dark olive-brown, with broad paler 
central band, irregularly dilate on caput and before central 
stria, narrowed to basal margin. Legs i., i1., and iii. olive- 
brown, freckled with spots of grey pubescence; iv. olive- 
brown, with pale narrow dorsal line on tib. and prot. iv. 
(In the male all four pairs of legs are clothed with pale grey 
pubescence.) 
Abdomen pale olive-brown, with central series of four (or 
five) paler cheyaons hike marks, each interstice picked out 
with black. Sides marked with oblique lines of pale spots. 
Ventral surface covered with four conspicuous rows of white 
spots and a pair of short central lines, becoming obsolete 
before spinners. 
Vulva consisting of an elongate convex process, emarginate 
on each side and clothed with hairs, presenting posteriorly a 
cross piece whose ends curve slightly forwards. In front of 
each arm, in the angle formed by the junction of the two 
limbs of this J,-shaped structure, lies a stout curved denticle, 
its point directed upwards. The right side in the female before 
me is malformed, so that the vulva is not bilaterally symme- 
trical. 
This species differs from the Bornean forms and from 
Thorellit by the closer proximity of the lateral anterior eyes 
to the posterior centrals and the fact that the second row of 
eyes is straight by their centres. Otherwise there is little to 
choose between them in general character. 
That this form is closely allied to C. trab/fer of Karsch 
(which has nothing to do with ¢rabcfer, Thorell, judging by 
examples of the latter identified by ‘Vhorell) is beyond doubt. 
I fully expect them to be identical; but without seeing 
Karsch’s type, and in the face of Karsch’s figure of the vulva, 
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