SOME NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS FROM BRITISH INDIA, 489 
Carapace about as long as patella and tibia of third leg ; posterior 
median eyes nearer to each other than either is to the lateral; eyes 
of anterior line subequally spaced. Fang-groove of mandible armed 
behind with 5 teeth. Tibia of first and second legs with 6 pairs of 
inferior spines ; of third and fourth with 3 pairs, Tibia of palp armed 
externally with a double process, the upper branch short, thinner 
and pointed, the lower much larger, stouter and bent downwards ; 
tarsus of palp large, oval, with a conspicuous external basal angular 
prominence which fits into the space between the two branches 0° 
the tibial process. 
Measuremenis in millimetres.—Total length 12; length of carapace 
6, width 5 ; of second leg 19, of third leg 15, of fourth leg 19. 
Loc. Nilgiri Hills (#. W. Oates). 
Theleticopis bicornutus, sp. 0. 
&. Colour nearly black, clothed with yellowish-grey hairs; abdomen 
ornamented above—especially behind—with narrow transverse darker 
stripes ; its ventral surface not noticeably darker in the middle. 
Structurally nearly allied to 7. virescens, but with the anterior 
line of eyes straighter, the superior edge of the laterals on a level 
with the centres of the medians, the medians less than a diameter 
apart, and a little more than a diameter from the laterals. Mandibles 
armed below with 4 irregularly-spaced teeth ; spine-armature of tibix 
as in 7’. virescens. Tibial apophysis of palp very large, rising from 
the whole of the external side of the segment and ending distally in two 
branches, the upper broad at the base, striate and running out into 
a tolerably straight almost thread-like termination, the lower short, 
blunt, and forming a nearly semi-circularly incurved hook. 
Measurements in millimetres.—Total length 17 ; length of carapace 
9; length of first leg 27, of second 28, of third 23, of fourth 28, 
Toc. Assam: Naga Hills. 
Genus Srarassus, Latr. 
Sparassus xerwes, Sp. 0. 
Q. Allied to S. walckenaerii. Colour of carapace and legs mahogany 
brown above and below, clothed with whitish-yellow hairs, mandibles 
black, clothed with white hair at base; under side of tibic with a 
subapical fuscous band in the distal half ; abdomen olive-yellow above, 
whitish at the sides, black in the middle line below, or atall events with 
