378 BEV. O. 1\ OAMBKIDGE ON CEYLON SPIDERS. 



Abdomen longish, narrow, oval ; rather longer than the cephalothorax ; 

 it is of a dark yellow-brown colour, marked irregularly on the sides 

 and upperside with black; a blackish oblong patch, enlarged and 

 angulated at its hinder extremity, occupies the fore part of the upper- 

 side : the paler portions are clothed with bright goldenish-yellow 

 hairs, mingled with which are coarser ones of a paler hue, appearing 

 almost white in some lights ; the underside is yellow brown, clothed 

 with short yellowish hairs, and bisected longitudinally by a narrow 

 line of silvery yellowish hairs. 



Spinners not very long ; those of the inferior pair longest and strongest. 

 The adult female differed only in being larger, the legs not so long, 

 and in the colour of the falces, maxillse, and labium, which were of 

 deep rich red-brown ; the maxillae also appeared to want the inward 

 curvature, and to be straighter than those of the male. 



Mr. Nietner's Ceylon collection contained several individuals 

 of both sexes of this fine Tegenaria, whicli appears to be unde- 

 scribed. 



Family THERIDIDES. 

 Genus PnoLOUS. 



Pholcus ceylonicus, n. sp. PI. XI. figs. 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 



26. 27. 



(J adult, length 3 lines. 



Cephalothorax nearly round ; the division of caput and thorax, as also 

 the other normal grooves and indentations, very strongly marked ; 

 the thoracic portion rather gibbous, and the caput rather elevated and 

 prominent at the eyes ; the clypeus is high, impressed below the eyes, 

 and prominent at its lower margin ; its colour is pale yellowish ; the 

 ocular region, and a large well-defined patch on either side of the 

 thorax, brown. 



Eyes in the three groups common to this genus, viz. three large conti- 

 guous eyes seated on a tubercle on either side of the upper extremity 

 of the caput ; and between these two groups, and in a straight line 

 with the foremost eye of each, is the third group of two very minute 

 eyes. 



Legs very long, slender ; furnished with long hairs ; colour darker yel- 

 low than the cephalothorax, suffused with brownish yellow near the 

 extremities of the femora and tibiae, which terminate in a small por- 

 tion of a clear pale yellow ; this, with the genua being suffused with 

 yellow brown, gives the legs a somewhat banded appearance. 



Palpi short, strong, and, like those of others of this genus, very peculiar 

 in structure; the first (or axillary) joint is small and slight, and pro- 

 jects beyond the articulation of the humeral joint; the extremity of 



