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Measurements in millimetres.—Total length 11 ; length of carapace 3°3, 
width 2; length of abdomen 8, width 3 ; length of basal segment of 
mandible 3. 
Loe. Shillong in Assam (Heaven). 
Tetragnatha paradisea, sp. n. 
Q. Carapace with a broad median fuscous band covering the cephalic 
area and the median dorsal area of the thoracig portion ; yellow at 
the sides but with a narrow black rim, legs obscurely banded ; abdomen 
covered above with « wide dark and black-bordered but mesially paler 
band, sides with broad white upper stripe and a corresponding black 
stripe below, lower surface black along the middle line, pale at the sides, 
Carapace with cephalic region shorter than in T. mandibulata ; eyes 
almost as in that species. Mandibles about as long as carapace, their 
armature almost as in 7. gracilis, except that there is a small tooth pro- 
jecting beneath the base of the fang ; fang strongly sinuous as in 
T. mandibulata, when viewed from the outer side, armed basally 
beneath witha strong tooth. 
Abdomen not so long, a little more than iwice as long as broad, 
broadest in the middle and narrowing forwards and behind, genital 
aperture about one-third of the distance from the anterior end. 
Measurements in millimetres—TYotal length 9; carapace 4 ; 
length of abdomen 7, width 2°5; basal segment of mandible 
about 3. 
Loc. Shillong in Assam (Heaven), 
Genus Orsinomg, Thorell. 
Orsinome marmorea, sp. 0. 
2. Colour of sides of thoracic and cephalic portion of carapace yellow, 
middle line and margin as well as the entire upper surface of the 
head black or deep brown; mandibles yellowish-brown ; sternum 
and mouth parts black, palpi yellow, apically black ; coxz of legs yellow ; 
femora pale at base, infuscate distally with subapical yellow ring ; 
basal half of patella yellow ; tibize coloured like femora ; upper surface of 
abdomen grey with small white spots, the grey area divided bya 
median lanceolate dark line and bordered with a broad black band 
which extends on to the sides and is broken up by pale stripes and 
spots; ventral surface black with a pair of narrow white bands extending 
from the pulmonary opercula to the spinning mammille, 
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