SOME NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS FROM BRITISH INDIA. 493 
greyish-white or greyish-yellow hairs; no black markings on body or 
limbs. Carapace longer than wide; anterior median eyes longer than 
anterior laterals, about a radius from each other and rather less than a 
radius from the laterals, clypeus equal to the diameter of the anterior 
median eyes. Legs short and not very unequal in length, 2, 4, 1, 3, 
the third reaching almost to the tip of the protarsus of the second when 
extended. Lobes of vulva in contact posteriorly and forming a long 
median suture, anteriorly their edges diverge and circumscribe a space 
which is occupied by a heart-shaped skeletal jet black piece. Total 
Jength 21 ; carapace 9°5, first leg 31, second: 34, third 30, fourth 33. 
Loc. Poona Ghats ; Hastern Khandesh (Madan) ; Pimpalner in 
W. Khandesh (Pearson). 
Sparassus obesulus, sp. 0. 
Q. Colour of carapace yellowish-red marked with radiating patches 
and clothed with silky golden hairs ; face and mandibles black, legs and 
palpi deep reddish-brown, femora paler, sternum yellow, labium and 
maxillee infuscate; abdomen clothed with silky yellow hairs, mottled 
with dark spots above, and marked with a median fuscous laterally den- 
tate stripe. Carapace short, as wide as long ; eyes of anterior line 
straight by their centres, medians much larger, nearly a diameter apart, 
and about a radius from the laterals and from the edge of the clypeus, 
laterals about a diameter above the edge of the clypeus. Legs 2, 1, 4, 
3, first longer than fourth by its tarsus ; third not reaching middle of 
protarsus of second. Vulva with its lateral lobes smooth, shining, in 
contact throughout, broader behind than in front, piriform, passing 
anteriorly into a black horny rugose area. 
Measurements in millimetres—Total length 13°5 ; length of carapace 
5°5, first leg 21, second leg 24, third leg 18, fourth leg 20. 
Loc. HE. Poona (Wroughton and Irani). 
Sparassus rotundiceps, sp. 0. 
Q. Colour of integument pale castaneous, covered with yellow hairs ; 
clypeus, sternum and mandibles dark brown; protarsus and tarsi infuscate. 
Carapace about as broad as long, as long as tibia of first leg ; eyes of 
anterior line straight by their centres, medians larger, about a diameter 
apart, and lessthan that from the laterals, which are about their own 
diameter above the clypeus. Legs 2,1, 4, 3, third only a little sur- 
passing tibia of second. Vulva with its right and left halves divided by 
