396 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW DRASSIDES. [Julie 2, 



Two adult females were received from Bombay in a collection 

 (before alluded to) made for me by Major Julian Hobson, Staff 

 Corps. 



Drassus luridus, sp.n. (Plate LII. fig. 21.) 



Adult male, length 3 lines ; adult female, length 4 lines. 



This species is nearly allied to D. vulpinus {'posted), but is destitute 

 of the silky yellow-grey pubescence with which that and other species 

 are clothed. The whole of the fore part is yellow, tinged with red- 

 brown, the f alces and labium being rather darker. 



The cephalothorax is glossy, of ordinary form, with the normal 

 grooves and indentations fairly marked, and a few fine yellowish 

 hairs here and there ; perhaps more of them may have been rubbed 

 off. The height of the clypeus is rather less than half of that of 

 the facial space. 



The eyes are in two transverse curved rows, the curves directed 

 backwards ; those of the hinder row, which is longest and much the 

 most curved, are equally separated from each other ; those of the 

 central pair of this row are oval and oblique, and, as well as those 

 of the lateral pairs, of a pearly white colour ; the eyes of the fore 

 central pair are large, round, and dark-coloured, and separated by 

 an interval of half an eye's diameter, and each is as nearly as possi- 

 ble contiguous to the lateral of the same row on its side. 



The legs are rather long and strong ; their relative length is 4, 1, 

 2, 3 ; they are furnished with hairs and spines, the latter chiefly on 

 those of the two hinder pairs ; and each tarsus terminates with two 

 curved claws, beneath which is a scopula, which extends backwards 

 beneath the tarsal joint. 



The palpi are moderate in length and strength, and of the same 

 colour as the legs. The radial is a little shorter than the digital 

 joint, and has a group of some longish hairs beneath its fore extremity 

 as well as others above, and at its outer extremity is a strongish 

 apophysis, which terminates obliquely and in a point on its upper- 

 side; the digital joint is of moderate size, darker in colour and 

 rather less in length than the radial and digital together, and of a 

 narrow oval form. The palpal organs are well developed, but simple, 

 consisting of a large oval corneous lobe, with a kind of marginal 

 fillet on the outer side, and a small curved sharp-pointed spine at 

 their inner extremity. 



The falces are moderate in length and strength, they project 

 forwards and are a little prominent at their base in front. 



The maxillce, labium, and sternum are of ordinary form. 



The abdomen is small, oval, and of a pale yellowish colour, 

 suffused more or less with blackish behind ; on the fore half of its 

 upperside is a longish wedge-shaped, dull, indistinct marking, on 

 either side of the hinder half of which are three dark punctures, 

 forming a slightly curved line on each side, similar to corresponding 

 punctures in many others of this family. The spinners are long ; 

 those of the inferior pair are just about double the length and 

 strength of those of the superior pair. 



