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striction and the spinners ; immediately behind the constriction 

 is a broad transverse band of somewhat iridescent greenish scales. 

 The coriaceous plate connected with the sheath oli the pedicle is 

 mixed black and reddish, the sheath portion being covered with 

 coarse granulations. The underside is deep black-brown. 

 Hah. Ceylon. 



Gen. nov. Feitjia (fam. OasUracantMdce). 



OephaloihorUiV as broad as long, upper surface rather flattened, 

 profile forming a gradual, very slightly convex slope from the hinder 

 extremity to the eyes. Caput broad, squarely truncate before. 

 Height of clypeus about one-third that of the facial space. 

 Normal grooves and indentations fairly marked, but not excessive. 



Eyes small, not differing much in size ; in the usual three 

 Epeirid groups, forming a transverse straight line across the 

 whole width of the fore extremity of the caput; each group 

 seated on a strongish tubercular prominence. The central group 

 of 4 eyes forms a square ; those of each lateral pair are near 

 together, but not contiguous. 



Lef/s short, not very strong, subequal in length, apparently 

 4, 1, 2, 3, furnished with hairs only, the femora of the first and 

 Becond pairs granulose. 



Falces tolerably long and strong, conical, directed backwards. 



Maxillce and labium : these were difficult to be seen, owing to 

 the specimen having been dried and pinned and the underparts 

 concealed by the folding over of the legs, but they appear to be 

 much like those of Epeira. 



Sternum heait-shaped. 



Abdomen diamond-shaped, the anterior angle truncated, and the 

 exterior ones each prolonged into a long, strong, cylindrical, 

 granulose lateral spine-like projection, directed rather backwards, 

 and enlarged or clavate at the extremity, which ends in a group of 

 six or seven small conical prominences. The length of each of 

 these S])iny projections exceeds the width of the abdomen. The 

 whole surface of the abdomen is chitinous (like Gasteracantha), 

 granulose, and marked with numerous sigilliform markings, in 

 number and position as indicated in the figure ; at the centre of 

 the npperside is a round shiny boss-like prominence ; and the 

 margins of the abdomen are furnished with short tuberculiform 

 spines or prominences, of which the longest and most spine-like 

 are one on each side not far in front of the long lateral pro- 

 jections ; between the hinder extremity of the upperside of the 

 abdomen and the spinners are several strong transverse ridges, 

 resembling diminishing repetitions of the upperside, the inter- 

 mediate spines between thnt and the first ridge being marked, 

 like the upperside, with sigilliform markings. The spinners 

 are continued in a circular sheath about tlie middle of the 

 underside. 



