528 BEV. O. PIOKARD-CAMBRIDOE ON ' [Apr. 18, 



also not greatly shorter than the others ; spines tew and short, 

 but there are numerous very short pale obtuse hairs. Colour 

 yellow-brownish, mottled with red-brown and whitish ; femora, 

 except at the base beneath, dark reddish brown ; beneath the tarsi 

 and metatarsi is a kind of scopula of tine pale hairs, which extend 

 over tlie extremity of the tarsi and form a sort of thin but exten- 

 sive claw-tuft ; the fore-sides of the femora are grauulose. 



Palpi short, robust ; cubital joint subclavate and rather pro- 

 miuent in front ; digital joint longer than the radial, of an elongate- 

 oval form and rathered flattened ; terminal claw very minute. 

 Colour like that of the legs. 



Falces conical, powerful ; the profile continues the curve of the 

 cephalothorax. Colour yellow, mottled with i-eddish yellow-brown. 



Maxilke moderately long, scarcely inclined to the labium, broader 

 at their extremity, which is rounded on the outer side. Colour 

 yellow, basal portion reddish brown. 



Labium oblong, more than half the length of the maxillae. Colour 

 reddish yellow-brown. 



Sternum rather small, oval, trnncate before, blunt-pointed behind. 

 Colour dark yellow-brown, paler in the middle. 



Abdomen short, broad, broader than long, truncate before, 

 where it fits up close to the whole width of the thorax, broadest 

 behind ; covered thickly with not very large tubercles and granu- 

 losities, the former subconical, and largest in the centre, along the 

 outer margins, and behind. Colour yellow-brown mixed with brown 

 and blackish of various shades, and a few small yellow-white irre- 

 gular markings at the middle near the fore-margin and near the 

 middle of the hinder margin. Tlie sides and round the hinder part 

 are strongly rugulose. Underside dark brownish, thickly clothed 

 with prominent, pale, clavate hairs. Spinners short, very compact ; 

 colour yellow-brown. Grenital aperture simple but of a character- 

 istic form. 



ffab. Ceylon. Received many years ago from the late Mr. G. 

 H. K. Thwaites. 



There is probably considerable variation in the distribution of 

 colours in this species ; in one example the upper and hinder pai'ts 

 of the abdomen are almost entirely pale dull j^ellowish ; the hiuder 

 part with only a few small but distinct blackish spots. 



HoLOPELXis piGEB, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 10.) 



Adult female, length nearly 1| lines. 



Ceplialotliorax as long, or very nearly as long, as broad, sub- 

 quadrate, with the corners rounded ; lateral marginal impressions 

 at the caput very slight. Upper convexity considerable, though 

 the surface is somewhat flattened, and the sides vertical ; slightly 

 highest near the posterior slope, m hich is very steep and abrupt. 

 Clypeus equal to, if not slightly greater than, half tlie height of the 

 facial space, and following the slope of the ocular area in profile. 

 Colour dark reddish yellow-brown, with a large diffused dull orange- 

 yellow patch in the central line just before the posterior slope, 



