ON ANT-LIKE SPIDERS FROM MALAYA. 



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23. Ant-like Spiders from Malaya, collected by tlie 

 Aimandale-Kobiiison Expedition, 1901-2. Bv H. D. 



Badcock, M.A.* 



[Ueceived July 7, 1917 : Head October 23, 1917.] 

 (Text-figures 1-12.) 



Index. 



Systematic. Page 



New names : — 



Mj/rmaracJiiie coniiUa 291 



„ turrifurmis 296 



,, cuneata 300 



„ ramosa 303 



,, alhierurata 306 



„ lateralis 310 



„ hiseratensis 312 



„ gedongensis 315 



Descriptions of species previously 

 described : — 



Sfriffoplus alhostriatus E. Sim. ... 280 

 Aiiii/ciaaforticeps 0. F. Camb. ... 283 



Epichus longipalpis Tlior 285 



3Ii/niiaracJme maxillosa C. L. 



Koch 287 



Agorius gracilipes Thor 318 



The Spiders here described were collected by Dr. Nelson 

 Annaiidale and Mr. H. C. Robinson in the Malay States in the 

 years 1901-2, and are now under the charge of the British 

 Museum, South Kensington. 



The specimens examined were : — 



Thomisid^. 



Strigoplus 

 Atnycicea 

 Epidius . . 



Salticid.e. 



Ifi/rmayachne 55 



Agorius 1 



Many of these were accompanied by ants which have been 

 numbered for reference, but which have not been identified. ' 



The species of Thomisidie and of Agorius are known. Of 

 Myrmarmhne, with the exception of M. maxillosa, of which there 

 are 13 specimens, all seem to be new species. Material in the 

 British Museum available for comparison is, however, scanty, and 

 the descriptions and especially the figures dealing with known 

 species are so scattered and often inadequate, that certainty on 

 this point is at present impossible. 



Myrmarachne maxillosa female was very common, and it is 

 curious that no male was found. In general shape M. hiseratensis 

 is very much like it, but it differs in teeth and tibial spines from 

 all previous descriptions of the male of that species, it may 

 ultimately prove to be a variety. 



* Comnuiiiicated bv the Secbetakt. 



