Arachiiida, etc. 161 



state, the tubercles project more or less above the general level of 

 the skin. A cluster of the cocoons of this species, strung together 

 in the manner characteristic of the species of Cyclosa, was also 

 procured by Mr. Andrews. 



According to Simon this species occurs in India, Arabia, and 

 South Afiica, as well as in Malaysia. 



Family SPARASSID^. 

 12. Heteropoda listeri, sp.n. (PL XVI, Figs. 4, 4:a-d.) 



Heteropoda venatoria (Linn.), Pocock: P.Z.S., 1888, p. 561 {not venatoria, Linn.). 



Colour. — Carapace castaneous, with pale posterior transverse 

 band ; thickly clothed with hairs of almost a mustard-yellow hue 

 at the sides, more rust}' red above ; mandibles black or ferruginous, 

 the upper half thickly clothed with long yellow bristles ; legs 

 ferruginous, distally infuscate, clothed with yellowish- grey hairs, 

 paler on the femora than on the tibiae ; sternum and coxae deep 

 reddish-black ; upper side of abdomen covered with yellowish or 

 reddish haii's in front, with darker hairs intermixed with blackish 

 patches behind ; lower surface darker in the middle than at the 

 sides, the sides yellow, the median area greyish black or pale 

 grey, with a pair of narrow darker lines. 



Carapace a little longer than broad, low, longitudinally hori- 

 zontal above, the ocular region lightly depressed ; eyes of posterior 

 line slightly recuiwed, their anterior edges nearly level, the 

 median a little more than a diameter apart ; eyes of anterior line 

 nearly straight, their upper edges in a straight line, the laterals 

 only about one-fourth larger than the medians, the laterals only 

 about half their diameter above the edge of the clypeus ; carapace 

 about as long as tibia of first leg, slightly longer than that of 

 fourth, the width just about equal to tibia of third. 



Zegs 2, 1, 4, 3 ; the second overlapping first by more than the 

 length of its tarsus, third just surpassing middle of protarsus of 

 second, fourth surpassing third by about half the length of its 

 tarsus. 



Vulva (as in Fig. 4a). 



(^ closely resembling J except in length of legs ; carapace 

 about equal to half the length of the patella and tibia of first ; 

 third leg not reaching middle of protarsus of second. 



Palpus (as in Figs. 4b, c, d). 



Measurements (in millimetres). — 9 Total length, 19; length of 

 carapace 8-o, width 8, length of first leg 34, of second 38, of third 

 31, of fourth 32, of palpus 11. ^ Total length, 16*5; length of 

 carapace 8-5, of first leg 44, of second 52, of third 39, of fourth 

 38, of palpus 11. 



