1869.] Indian Arachnoidea. 237 



The palpi are yellowish with a few blackish hairs on the two termi- 

 nal joints. 



The sternum is almost as broad as long, distinctly emarginated at 

 the base of the lip, and roundish posteriorly. Opposite each coxa of the 

 three first pairs of feet is one tubercle, the first on each side being the 

 largest. The colour of the sternum and of the coxa3, which are strong- 

 ly thickened, is a yellowish brown. The proportion in the length of 

 the feet is as 1, 4, 2, 3, the second and fourth being nearly equal, and 

 the third not more than half the length of the first ; in all, the tarsi 

 are longer than the respective tibial joints, they are brownish yellow 

 with the terminal portions of all the joints dark brown. 



The abdomen is nearly thrice as long as the thorax, depressed, 

 broadly truncate in front, widest in the middle and obtusely pointed 

 at *he posterior end. The posterior halves of the lateral margins each 

 possesses five tubercles : of the three anterior the middle one is the 

 largest, while the two last near the posterior end are very small. The 

 upper surface is of a uniform, dirty brown colour, thickly covered with 

 - short white hairs, and provided with a large number of minute dots of 

 which 4 on the anterior part are especially conspicuous ; all round the 

 margins the small pits for the attachment of muscles are more numerous 

 than in the middle. The lower side is also of the same general colour as 

 the upper, with a broad, yellowish, longitudinal band extending from 

 the epiginium to the spinners, and surrounding the latter. In the 

 centre of this band is a blackish subquadrangular spot with two pairs 

 of dots, one below the other, one single dot is placed below its lower 

 and another above its upper margin. The trachean opercula are large, 

 shining brown, and so is also a triangular space between them ; 

 the pulmonary slits are very narrow. The epiginium is transversely 

 elongated, moderately prominent, brown with black margins round the 

 two sexual pores which lie side by side. The spinners converge with 

 their terminations, forming a broad pointed cone. 

 Length of thorax 6 m.m. ; its width in the middle 6 m.m. 



abdomen 12 ,, „ ; 11 „ „ 



one foot of the first pair 25.5 m. m. 



- 2nd 24 „ „ 



3rd ..11.5 „ „ 



■ 4th 24 „ „ 



