SPECIES OF GALEODIDMIN INDIA AND CEYLON. 443 



Hutton in his very brief account of the physical characters of his 

 species not only mentions no differential feature for vorax, but uses 

 words which apply accurately to fatalis. 



The type of Butler's hengalensis is preserved in the British Museum 

 of Natural History. It is a female and is not distinguishable spe- 

 cifically from another example of the same sex, which agrees almost 

 exactly with the figure of G. fatalis published by Herbst. 



Distribution. — If we may trust the accuracy of the localities that are 

 ascribed to specimens of this species, it certainly has a wide range in India. 

 The British Museum has received examples from Gwalior (0. Maries), 

 Secunderabad (A. Bicardo), Bengal (W. Masters), and Madras (Jerdon). 

 According to Hutton the species occurs in Central and North India. 

 Moreover, Stoliczka states that it is said to extend into the Punjab and 

 Afghanistan, and the British Museum has received from Kohat in the 

 Punjab a single immature female example, which I refer, although 

 with some hesitation, to this species. This example was kindly 

 presented by Lieut. A. Grseme Batten. 



I think there is no doubt that Monsieur Simon had examples of this 

 species before him when he compared orientals with araneoides. For 

 he asserts that in his orientalis the basal part of the flagellum is much 

 shorter than the lanceolate distal portion, and that the fourth tarsus has 

 its proximal two segments covered with robust truncate hairs, both of 

 which statements apply to the $ I have described above as fatalis. 

 But for reasons given below in connection with the species I identify 

 as G. orientalis, I believe that my fatalis is not identical with Stoliczka's 

 orientalis. 



Simon's examples came from Guntakal near Bellary, and his descrip- 

 tion applies to my example from Gwalior, except that he asserts that 

 the appendages are infuscate. I do not feel justified, however, at 

 present in regarding this as a character of much importance ; for 

 amongst five males which I have from Secunderabad — all of which 

 were taken by the same collector, are undoubtedly co-specific and, I 

 believe, are referable to fatalis — one, the largest, has entirely pale 

 limbs, while the smaller examples have the protarsus of the palp and 

 the tibia of the fourth leg infuscate. Curiously enough, however, these 

 examples from Secunderabad and the two mentioned above from 



