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broader than in P. regalis, Finally the lower side of the abdomen is entirely 
chocolate-brown, without a pale band. 
Legs of first and second pairs shorter than in P, regalis, the carapace being 
as long as the patella and tibia of the first leg and longer than those of the 
second by the grey spot on the protarsus ; patella aud tibia of fourth a little 
longer than of second ; femora and trochanters of palpi and anterior legs not, 
~ or at all events only very slightly, fringed. 
Stridulating-organ on maxilla consisting of a short cluster of two rows 
of longer and shorter clavate bristles, with usually two or three strong black 
tooth-like ridges removed a little distance from the distal end of the 
cluster, 
Measurements in millimetres of type spectmen.—Total length 54; length of 
carapace 26, width 21; length of first leg 69, of second 61, of third 54, of 
fourth 65; patella and tibia of first 26, of fourth 23; protarsus 
fourth 16, 
Loc, Kadiampatti and Mullaptram, in the Salem District, Sheveroy Hills 
(H.R. P. Carter and 4.C, West), Taken in 
firewood. 
or 
stacks of locomotive 
This species differs from P. regalis in the characters pointed out in the 
diagnosis. It resembles P. fasciata in the absence of the femoral fringes of 
hair, these being the only species with banded legs in which these fringes are 
not developed. It, however, differs entirely from P. fasciata in the much 
whiter colour of the lower side of the legs; the much greater width of the 
black femoral bands, and the uniform chocolate colour of the lower side of 
the tibia of the palp. It is also a much shorter-legged species than P, fasciata, 
a species in which the carapace is considerably shorter than the patella and 
tibia of the first leg. 
That this species is zot based upon females of the §.-Indian species already 
described as FP, vitiata, which might perhaps be suspected from the 
fact that the two somewhat resemble each other in the whitish colour 
of the underside of the anterior femora, is shown by the absence of the 
femoral fringes, which are highly developed in P, vitiata, by the pale colour 
of the under surface of the tibia of the palp in P, vitiata, this seg- 
ment being uniformly chocolate-brown in P. formosa, by the presence in 
P. formosa and the absence in P, vittata of a dark basal patch on the inner 
side of the anterior femora, and by the darker colour of the underside of the 
femora of the third and fourth legs in P, vitiata, 
(7) Pecilotheria metallica, sp. n. (Pl. A, fig. 3.) 
Colour of carapace and abdomen much as in the other species, but the dark 
bands on the carapace more widely separated mesially and the pale band on 
the abdomen much less distinct and traversed by a darker stripe ; upperside 
of legs and palpi tolerably uniformly coloured and becoming darker towards 
the extremities, showing faint metallic lustre ; tarsi not spotted above ; 
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