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piece horny, blackish, and completely filling up the space between 
the lobes; near the middle of its area there is a large wide 
depression, which is furnished anteriorly with a pair of horny ridges. 
Measurements in millimetres.—Total length 15 ; carapace 8, first 
leg 28, second 32, third 21, fourth 24, 
Loc. Ceylon ; Punduloya (Green). 
Genus Hermropopa, Latr. 
Heteropoda hampsont, sp. n. 
Q. Colour: Darker and more variegated than in H. venatoria ; 
the yellow band on clypeus extending on to the sides of the head, 
and with fine radiating pale lines on the upper side of the carapace ; 
upper side of legs banded, especially on the femora, tibize with two 
bands below, abdomen mottled with black above and at the sides, 
the upper side with a pair of pale median sigilla spots, and three 
indistinct pale patches forming a transverse band in the posterior half, 
lower side of abdomen uniformly blackish-brown, the pulmonary 
opercula yellow, and two fine paie lines running backwards from the 
genital fold and defining the dark median area. Carapace longer 
in proportion to its width than in H. venatoria, considerably longer 
than wide ; the length exceeding that of tibia of third leg; equal to 
that of first and to protarsus of second leg ; width almost equal to length 
of tibia of third leg ; eyes practically the same as in HZ. venatoria. 
Mandibles and palp: armed as in H. venatorza. Legs shorter and 
relatively stouter than in H. venatoria, with the same spine armature ; 
third leg as long as the fourth, and surpassing the middle of the 
protarsus of the second. 
Vulva larger than in H. venatoria, the lateral lobes separated by a 
narrow median sclerite. 
Measurements in millimetres.—Total length 29; length of cara- 
pace 13, width 10°5; width of head 6°5 ; length of first leg 49, of 
second 53, of third 44, of fourth 44, tibia of third 11. 
Loc. Ootacamund (G. Ff. Hampson). 
FHeteropoda nilgirina, sp. n. 
Colour : Much resembling that of H. venatoria, but the sternum 
darker ; the white clypeal band much less distinct, the mandibles deep- 
shining black ; abdomen mottled above and at the sides with rusty- 
brown spots. 
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