SOME NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS FROM BRITISH INDIA, 483 
The abdomen differs also in shape from that of the other species, its 
anterior half being broader and parallel-sided, its posterior half. from 
a point just behind the fused median lateral black lines abruptly 
narrowed and cylindrical. The vulva impressed with a nearly circular 
excavation, the border of which is evenly thick and high throughout, 
except in the middle of the sides where there is an apparent infolding 
emphasised by a double thickening. 
Measurements in millimetres—Total length 11 ; carapace 3°5, first 
leg 19, second 18, third 15, fourth 18 ; patella and tibia of fourth 5-8. 
Loc. Allahabad (A. EL. Ryves). 
Oxyopes rujisternis, sp. D. 
Colour : carapace deep mahogany brown, clothed with white hairs 
at least at the sides and in part above; sternum and coxz yellowish-red, 
clothed with rusty-red hairs, legs nearly black, varied with white hairs ; 
abdomen olive-yellow above varied with white and reddish hairs, a 
broad ventral black band bordered with white ; sides blackish varied 
with white streaks, or blotches and patches of red. 
Carapace about as long as patella and tibia of fourth leg ; clypeus 
about twice the height of the anterior portion of ocular quadrangle; cly- 
peus more than half the length of the mandibles ; anterior median eyes 
about a diameter apart. Legs 1, 2, 4, 3, in length, the fourth and third 
subequal and much shorter than the first, the first a little more than’ 
four times as long as the carapace. Tibia of palp armed below ait its 
distal end with a pair of subequal parallel processes projecting 
downwards and forwards, the posterior of these hairy, pale coloured, 
the anterior black, smooth and clavate at the apex. 
Measurements in millimetres—Total length 9 ; carapace 3°5, first 
leg 15, second 14, third 11, fourth 11°*5. 
Loe. Ceylon : Trincomali ( Col. Yerbury.) 
Oxyopes wroughtont, sp. n. ait 
Colcur and other characters as in OU. birmanicus, ete., but 
distinguishable by the form of the generative organs. The plate of the 
vulva is transverse, its posterior border truncate, the depression divided 
into two by a median partition which is much broader than in: 
O. javanus, the two resulting pits being oval. Inthe ¢ the tibia of the 
palpus is furnished below with a large subconical process some- 
what resembling that of O. birmanicus but much blacker and more: 
