1874.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW DRASSIDES. 411 



(if not rather more than) double the length of the cubital joint, which 

 is a little bent. The radial is furnished with long erect fine hairs ; its 

 outer extremity has a small deep-red-brown apophysis, which is 

 rather curved and terminates with a somewhat hooked point, and a 

 small tuberculiform prominence beneath its extremity near the inner 

 side. The digital joint is of ordinary form, prominent at the middle of 

 its outer margin, roundish behind, produced in front, though not there 

 so cylindric in its form as in C. indicum {vide infra) ; its length is about 

 the same as that of the radial joint ; and from its hinder part there 

 runs obliquely outwards a moderately long, slender, red-brown, thorn- 

 like apophysis, extending backwards to about half the length of the 

 cubital joint. The palpal organs occupy the underside of the hinder 

 half of the digital joint ; they are very similar in general structure to 

 many others of the genus, consisting of a rather flattened oval cor- 

 neous lobe, with a curved elongate pale projection at their fore part, 

 and a rather slender spine which issues from the fore extremity on 

 the outer side and curves backwards, terminating in a sharp filiform 

 point on their inner margin. 



The falces are long, three fourths as long as the cephalothorax, 

 strong, divergent, and nearly vertical ; their profile line is slightly and 

 equally curved ; and their fore sides are furnished with a few not very 

 strong bristly hairs. The form of the maxillse and labium is normaf ; 

 the latter, however, is not apparently hollowed at its apex. 



The abdomen is of a dull, pale, luteous yellow colour, clothed with 

 fine hairs of various lengths, some on the upperside being very slender, 

 long, and erect ; the most convex part is at the fore side, where it pro- 

 jects over the base of the cephalothorax ; thence it slopes gradually in 

 a slightly curving line to the spinners; these are moderately long; 

 those of the superior pair are less strong than the inferior ones, and 

 two-jointed, the tapering second joint constituting their excess in 

 length over the inferior spinners. 



The adult female is larger than the male ; and its cephalothorax is 

 strongly suffused with brownish red ; the legs are also shorter and 

 stouter; the genital aperture is simple in form, being of a somewhat 

 transverse kidney-shape. 



An adult example of each sex was received from Major Julian 

 Hobson, by whom they were found, and kindly forwarded to me from 

 Bombay. 



Cheiracanthium indicum, sp. n. (Plate LI I. fig. 34.) 



Adult male, length rather more than 3 lines. 



The cephalothorax of this species, looked at from above, is short, 

 round behind, constricted laterally on each side at the caput, trun- 

 cated squarely at the fore extremity, and the normal grooves and 

 indentations fairly marked ; looked at in profile the hinder slope is 

 short and abrupt, and the profile liue from its upper part is a gradual 

 (but sloping) curve to the clypeus, which is low and rather less than 

 half the height of the facial space. The colour of the cephalothorax, 

 as well as of all the rest of the fore part of the Spider, is a clear dull 

 orange-yellow. 



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