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smaller lateral spots in line with tubercles ; lateral margins 

 show a series of chocolate-brown rib-like streaks, convexities 

 directed backwards; basal end displays a series of fine 

 horizontal streaks, limited by first rib-like line ; ventral 

 surface chocolate-brown ; shield pale burnt-sienna, large, 

 brown, trapezoidal mark in centre ; spinners short ; corpus 

 vulvae lake-brown ;'• sub-reniform, of moderate size ; sides 

 abrubt, project outwards ; face bordered by two narrow costse, 

 inner black, encloses a heart-shaped area containing two fovese, 

 divided by a longitudinal groove ; apex of area limited by the 

 rima genitalis ; springing from anterior border of corpus is a 

 long, tapering, flat, transversely rugose, hairy, yellowish 

 scapus, curving backwards and upwards. 

 Single specimen. A.M. 



Epeira notacephala, sp. nov. 

 Femina— Ceph. th., long, 4 ; broad, 3 ; facial index, 1-5. 

 AM., long, 5'; broad, 4. Legs, 1, 2, 4, 3 = 12'5, 11-5, 11, 

 7 mm. 



GephalotJwrax light brownish-orange, reddish dots, two 

 fuscous spots transversely posited in centre of caput; 

 thoracic part displays two rows 6—2 of similar tinted spots ; 

 hind and fore-centre pair enclose a V-shaped figure within 

 fovea. This figure is connected by short bars with next 

 pair of spots in anterior row; marginal band brown, projects 

 a triangular mark on basal half, fades away forwards; 

 fairly-well clothed with rather coarse, whitish, adpressed 

 hairs,; length equal to metatarsus and tarsus of a leg of first 

 pair; pars cephalica sub-aplanate, sides abrupt, somewhat 

 retreating ; lateral index equals space between a fore-lateral 

 eye and the central furthest from it ; depth of clypeus equals 

 diameter of a fore-centre eye ; pars thoracica oval, convex, 

 fovea sub-circular, shallow ; normal grooves faint ; profile- 

 contour represents a somewhat prominent arch, cephalic and 

 thoracic incline of about equal grade. 



Eyes of fair size, placed on fuscous rings ; posterior row 

 perceptibly recurved ; median pair visibly more than an eye's 

 breadth apart, their space and one-third from laterals of 

 same row; anterior row more distinctly recurved; centrals 

 one-third larger than hind pair, perceptibly closer to these 

 eyes than they are to each other, an interval surpassing their 

 diameter by one-fourth ; divided from side eyes by rather 

 less than two-thirds their space ; laterals scarcely one-third 

 smaller than posterior centrals on fuscous rings, oblique, 

 about two-thirds their radius from each other; fore-eye 

 posited on a yellowish projecting tubercle. 



Legs pale yellowish stone-colour, fuscous patches and spots 

 on inferior side of femoral andcoxal joints, indications of annuli 



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