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protarsi with a thin brown stripe ; tibiee with very indistinct lines of yellow 
spots; lower side of palpi entirely deep brown, with faint metallic blue 
lustre ; lower side of anterior legs blackish-brown, with strong metallic blue 
lustre, and a large orange-yellow patch on the under and inner sides of the 
base of the tibia; third’ and fourth legs uniformly coloured below, with a 
similar but smaller tibial spot‘and much less metallic blue tint ; lower side 
of abdomen uniformly chocolate-brown. 
Carapace shorter than patella and tibia of first leg, a little longer than 
those of second and fourth leg ; patella and tibia of fourth a little longer 
than of second. 
Measurements in millimetres—Total length 52; length of carapace 23°5, 
width 20; length of palp 37, of: first leg 65, of second 59, of third 52, of 
fourth 64 (all measured from base of femur); ‘patella and tibia of first 25, 
of second 22, of fourth 23; protarsus of fourth 15, 
Loc. Near Gooty, 257 miles from Madras, A single female specimen 
taken in the engineer’s bungalow on the north-west line of the Madras 
Railway; and sent to Mr, H, R. P. Carter by Mr. H, C. West, chief engineer, 
This species may be easily recognized by the uniformity of the colouring 
of both the upper and under sides of the legs and body, by the metallic 
lustre of the under surface of the legs, and the single orange-yellow patch on 
the tibiz. 
(8) Pecilotheria ornata, sp. u. 
Colour very like that of P. fasciata; femora of anterior legs yellow, 
with a black basal internal patch as in fasciata, but with the stripe in 
the distal half of the segment much broader; femora of third and 
fourth legs whitish below, as in fasciata, but with the distal black stripe 
very broad on the third leg, and broader than the pale basal portion, and 
on the fourth leg as broad as the basal pale portion. In fasciata the 
black stripes on these femora are narrow, much narrower than the pale basal 
portion. ; 
Further differing from P. fasciata in possessing, like the Indian species, a 
thick fringe of hairs along the onter side of the femora of the first and 
second leg, and in a lesser degree of the third leg. In the examples of 
fasciata known to me these fringes are not present. 
Measurements in millimetres —Total length 46 ; length of carapace 19, of 
first leg 64, of second 58, of third 49, of fourth 61°; patella and tibia of first 
24, of fourth 21 ; protarsus of fourth 15. 
Loc, Ratnapura, 8. Ceylon (Rev. J. Burrows). 
The differences between this species and P. fasciata have been sufficiently 
dealt with in the description, In most of the characters in which it differs 
from P. fasciaia it approaches P. striata, but has the femoral stripes much 
narrower, and possesses a black patch on the inner side at the base of the 
anterior femora, which is absent in P, striata, ; 
