238 Indian Araclinoidea. [No. 4, 



This species may be considered as the eastern representative of 

 Epeira sericea (Walkenaer, Insect. Apt., vol. ii, p. 116), which is 

 found in Egypt, and almost through the whole of Northern and 

 Western Africa ; the former differs from the latter by a shorter thorax 

 and the want of numerous bands on the feet ; the abdomen is also not 

 emargined in front, and the anterior lateral edges are not serrated, 

 what they always appear to be in the African form. 



Loc. G-owalparah in Western Assam. One specimen was sent with 

 many other interesting forms of insects by Mr. H. Haughton ; the 

 species also occurs in Burmali and all along the Malayan Peninsula. 



Epeira braminica, Stol. Pi. XX, Fig. 8. 



? Cephalothorax longer than broad, convex, narrowest at the ocu- 

 lar region, widest near the posterior end which is again somewhat 

 contracted at its extreme termination ; pale yellowish with three 

 longitudinal brown stripes, one central and one marginal on either side. 



Ocular region truncate and roundish, not elevated at all; the four 

 central eyes form a small square in the middle, and the laterals are 

 almost contiguous, distant, placed at the corners. The falces are some- 

 what elongated, thick at the base, and gradually tapering towards 

 the ends, yellowish, laterally at the base with a short longitudinal 

 stripe ; the claws are rather long and brown. The length of the falces 

 is nearly equal to that of the sternum. 



The lip is short, semicircular, obtusely pointed in the centre ; the 

 maxillae are much higher, broader and rounded ; the palpi are inserted 

 at their upper bases which are not specially thickened ; — all these organs 

 are pale yellowish, the last have a few black short hairs near their ends, 

 and the former a number of similar hairs at their inner edges. 



The sternum is a little longer than broad, truncate anteriorly, and 

 rapidly terminating with a short point posteriorly, with a small tubercle 

 opposite the insertion of each of the three anterior pairs of feet ; it is 

 black with a yellowish central longitudinal stripe. The feet are rath- 

 er short and stout, furnished with very short, white hairs, and some 

 longish black spines ; the first pair is the longest, the 2nd and 4th are 

 subequal, and the 3rd the shortest ; the length of one of the third pair 

 is equal to two thirds of one of the first ; all feet are yellowish, with 

 the terminal ends of the femora, tibia? and tarsi blackish brown. The 

 tarsi are thin, the claws very short and black. 



