SOME NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS FROM BRITISH INDIA, 491 
segment below and in front are not white but a beautiful orange-red, 
becoming greyer above and spotted with black; the tibize are 
white with a basal black band extending on to the patella, a distal 
narrow black band and a black spot at the base of each spine, the 
dorsal side being irregularly spotted. 
Carapace longer than wide ; a little shorter than tibia of second leg 
and pateila and tibia of third ; its width about equal to first tibia ; 
eyes of posterior line slightly procurved ; of anterior line sub-equal and 
sub-equally spaced, about a diameter apart. 
Legs much the same on as in S. lamarcki. 
Cleft of vulva sub-ellyptical, narrower in front, not so triangular 
as in S. lamarchi. 
Measurements in millimetres.—Total length 25 ; length of carapace 11, 
width 10; length of first leg 44, of second 48°5, of third 35, of fourth 39. 
Loc. Sylhet in Assam. | 
Sparassus hampsoni, sp. n. 
9. Colour mostly resembling that of S. lamarckiz, but with the 
femora of the legs uniformly yellowish-white below, not spotted; a 
narrow mesial black band on the tibiz, the ecoxz black like the 
sternum, the black of the lower side of the abdomen extending all over 
the epigastric area, and the whole of the upper side of the abdomen 
beautifully variegated with symmetrically arranged yellow spots and 
black stripes. Carapace about equal to tibia of second leg and to patella 
and tibia of third. Legs of first and second pair nearly equal in length. 
Vulva larger than in S. lamarcki ; its lateral lobes widely separated, 
diverging, not converging anteriorly, the intervening space occupied 
by a smooth amber-coloured median sclerite. 
Measurements in millimetres. —Total length 16 ; length of carapace 7°5, 
width 7 ; length of first leg 28, of second 29, of third 22, of fourth 24. 
Loc. Nilgiri Hills (G. &. Hampson). 
Sparassus fuligineus, sp. n. 
Q@. Nearly allied to S. lamarckzi and S. hampsoni, and especially to 
the latter in the form of the vulva, but at once recognisable from both 
by having the legs a uniform olive-black above and below and no 
distinct pattern on the abdomen, which like the carapace and limbs 
is covered with olive-black hairs. The median ventral surface of the 
abdomen is black as in S. lamarckiz and S. hampson, the black area 
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