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weeks went by such mutual confidence sprung up that even 

 when I touched him the spider would hardly shift his position. 



I have noted this species in Singapore, Johore, Georgetown 

 (Penang), Kedah, Bangkok, Ayuthia, Tahkamen, Chantaboon 

 and also on board local coasting steamers. 



It is also recorded from Java, Borneo, Celebes, Halmahera, 

 Ternate, Batchian, New Britain, Solomon Islands, tropical 

 Africa, etc., etc. 



A specimen I kept for a time in captivity in a large glass 

 jar together with a small scorpion Archisometrus mucronatus, and 

 a Thelyphonus did not interfere with them in any way or they 

 with it. Whenever the spider rested on the glass sides of the 

 vessel it put its spinnarets in rapid motion and formed a small 

 anchor of white silk and then let down one fine silk thread as if 

 to help support itself : in a few days it had to some extent 

 obscured the whole surface of the glass by the number of these 

 anchors it had made and abandoned. 



15. Heteropoda thoracica (C. Koch). 



I caught specimens of this very handsome spider in the 

 inner, deepest caves, far from daylight, over an hour's walk from 

 the entrance in the hill side, Gunong Gajah, Kedah, in June 

 1898. They ran with great agility over the rough walls of 

 rock, and also when we tried to catch them sprang away from 

 the rocks into the air ; the Malays were very frightened of 

 them. Although living in darkness the spiders did not seem at 

 all confused by the light of the lamp and torches. On the two 

 occassions I have collected in these caves, in April 1895 and 

 June 1898, we only met these spiders in one part of the caves, 

 the deepest part. 



Colour, yellow ochre, marked with rich dark brown. 



Size, Cephalothorax, length, 16 mm. 



„ width 12.5 



Abdomen, length 17 



„ width 8 



Palp, length 27 

 1st leg, „ £83 



2nd „ „ 91 



