a 
SOME NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS FROM BRITISH INDIA, 497 
6. Differing from that of . nilgirina in being smaller, in having 
pale and striped mandibles, and in the form of the tibial apophysis, 
the lower edge of which is more abruptly emarginate, with the inferior 
distal angle produced into a distinct tooth-like prominence. 
Measurements in muallimeires.—Total length 15; carapace 6°5 ; 
first leg 21, second 24, third 19, fourth 21. @. Total length 12; 
carapace 5°5 ; first leg 27, second 31, third 25, fourth 26°5. 
Loe. §S. India: Ponmudiin Travancore ( Ferguson ), Tinnevelly 
(Barber). 
Family THOMISID i. 
Genus Angus, Thorell. 
Angeus pentagonalis, sp. n. 
Colour of carapace reddish-brown with two darker bands, clothed 
with a thick coating of yellowish-grey hairs, clypeus and mandibles 
nearly black, much more scantily clothed with pale hairs, anterior legs 
deep reddish-brown, posterior paler, banded with brown, clothed with 
pale hairs, dark at the base of the spines ; abdomen testaceous, marbled 
with black, clothed with silky-yellow hairs above and below. Carapace 
a little longer than broad, moderately high, flat above longitudinally be- 
hind the posterior eyes ; eyes of posterior line subequally spaced, medians 
smaller than laterals and about four diameters apart; crest above anterior 
eyes prominent and furnished with a tuft of hair at the angles ; eyes of 
anterior line subequally spaced, laterals standing much higher, so that 
a line touching their inferior edges would just cut the upper half 
of the laterals ; height of clypeus in middle about equal to distance 
between anterior median eyes, height at sides about equal to twice 
the diameter of the lateral eye. Fang-groove of mandible armed 
with 3 strong teeth behind and 8 in front. Legs 1, 2, 4, 3, first 
and second sub-equal, first leg nearly four times as long as carapace ; 
tibia of first and second armed beneath with 4 pairs, protarsi with 2 
pairs of long spines, tibize and protarsi with 2 anterior and 2 posterior 
spines as well, tibiee and protarsi of third and fourth armed with a few 
spines in front and behind: legs, especially the femora, more or less 
tubercular and tufted above. Abdomen pentagonal, widest behind 
the middle, as wide as long, furnished above with two rows of tufts in 
its posterior half and others at the sides. Vulva consisting of a pair 
