282 E. Simon — E'tude sur les Arachnides de V Asie meridionale [No. 3, 



To my mind nothing can be clearer than the existence of a great break 

 in time between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic Periods in South India. 

 Whether this great break will ever be closed in by future archaeological 

 discoveries remains to be seen. 



XIX. — E'tude sur les Arachnides de V Asie meridionale faisant joarfie des 

 collections de V Indian Museum (Calcutta). — Par M. E. Simon, de 

 Paris. Gommunicated hy The Superintendent of the Indian 

 Museum. 



[Received September 22iid ; — Read November 2nd, 1887]. 



II. 



Arachnides recueillis aux Iles Andaman par M. H. D. Oldham. 



Earn. Attidse. 



1. — Cytjia albolimbata, sp. nov. 



? . Long. 7riim. Cephalothorax crassus convexus postice attenua- 

 tus Isevis, niger, in medio dilutior et rufescens, obscure rufulo-pubescens, 

 vitta marginali latissima postice interrupta crasse albo-pilosa cinctus, 

 parte cephalica in medio fulvo albidoque pilosa et parte thoracica vitta 

 media postice abbreviata et acuta alba notatus. Oculorum pili supra 

 fulvi infra ocalos albidi. Pili clypei crassissimi albidi. Oculi antici 

 parum disjuncti in linea parum recurva. Oculi ser. 29e vix ante 

 medium (inter oculos laterales anticos et medios posticos) siti. Oculo- 

 rum series 3a cephalothorace baud vel vix angustior. Abdomen oblon- 

 gum, supra nigrum et squamulis micantibus parce ornatum, in parte 

 basilari sinuosa albo-marginatum et lineis mediis quatuor albidis sinuosis 

 et fere inordinatis notatum et pone medium linea transversa alba valde 

 dentata sectum, venter simpliciter fulvo-pubescens. Pedes, praesertim 

 antici, breves et robusti, f ulvo-ravidi, femoribus tibiisque ad basin atque 

 ad apicem, patellis metatarsisque ad apicem nigro fulvove annulatis, 

 partibus fulvis crasse albo-pilosis, tibiis anticis patellis non multo 

 longioribus, aculeis validis et numerosis : patellis cunctis biaculeatis, 

 tibiis metatarsisque anticis aculeis inferioribus et lateralibus instructis. 

 Chelae robustge fusco-rufulse, Iseves, albido-hirsutae, margine inferiore 

 sulci dentibus geminatis binis instructo. Vulvae plaga antice fovea 

 parva semicirculari, postice plagula ruf ula Isevi et plana, recte transversa 

 et utrinque rotunda notata. 



Port Blair. 



0, sinuatce Dolesch. et G. alburnco Keys, sat affinis, differt cephalo- 



