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Loc, Arkonam in the North Arcot District of the Madras Presidency, 
Taken in timber brought from the Eastern Ghats (A. R. P. Carter), 
The type of this species is a fine adult female example which Mr, Carter 
brought alive from India and deposited in the Zoological Gardens at Regent's 
Park, Unfortunately the animal did not long survive the journey to London, 
I am much indebted to Mr, Arthur Thomson, the head keeper, for the pains 
he took in the preservation of the specimen and for bringing it to the Bri- 
tish Museum, at Mr, Carter’s request, when it was thoroughly dried. 
The species much resembles the Ceylonese P. fasciata in the colouring of 
the body and limbs, but may be at once distinguished as from all the other 
known species of the genus by the presence of the broad reddish band on the 
lower side of the abdomen. It further differs from fasciata in the breadth 
of the bands on the lower side of the legs and the presence of the fringes of 
hairs on the femora of the palpi and front legs. In both of these respects it 
approaches the Penang species P. striata. P. striata, however, is a longer- 
legged form, having the carapace shorter than the patella and tibia of the 
fourth leg, &c. (Compare measurements of the types.) 
The British Museum possesses a dry example of what appears to be a male, 
specimen of this species from Koorg (Jr. Macgilligan’s coll.), It presents 
the following measurements :— 
Total length 32; length of carapace 17°5, width 15°5 ; length of first leg 73, 
of second 63, of third 52°5, of fourth 65; protarsus of first 16°3, of fourth 
17-2; tibia of fourth 14°5, . 
We also have an immature and badly preserved female specimen from the 
Nilgiri Hills (£, W. Oates), and a very much rubbed adult female from Daha- 
nee in the Thana district, North Konkan (4. G. Edie). 
(6) Paecilotheria formosa, sp. n. 
Colouring of the upperside of trunk and limbs much like that of 
P. regalis; the brown bands on the thorax much wider and spreading more 
over towards the margins ; the pale band on the upperside cf the abdomen 
less noticeably lobate posteriorly, with the brawn band that circumscribes 
it and the brown stripes that radiate from it less clearly defined ; there 
is also a larger pale area of the extremities of the tibie and protarsi 
of the legs, and the upper sides of the tarsi of the legs are not distinctly 
spotted ; the lower sides of the legs and palpi are strongly striped, but 
the tibia of the palp is entirely brown beneath, and the legs are much 
more of a uniform dirty white, the anterior pairs being only tinted 
with yellow, andthe posterior pairs without the bluish tinge ; the dark 
stripes, too, are blacker and narrower ; there is, moreover, a largish black 
patch on the inner side of the anterior femora at the base, and there 
is no white distal band on the lower sideof the femora of the third and 
fourth legs, or, at all events, at most a very narrow one spreading down from 
the dorsal side ; and the bands on the patella of the third and fourth legs are 
