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MR. H. D. BADCOCK ON 



Thomisid^e. 

 Strtgoplus E. Simon, 1885. 

 § . Strigoplus albostriatus E. Sim. (Text- fig. 1.) 



S. albostriatus E. Sim. Bull. Soc. Zool. de France, 1885, p. 144. 

 Peltorhynchus rostratus Thorell, K. Sy. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xxiv. 

 p. 2 (1891). 



Prosoma. — (a) Clypeus nearly straight or very slightly recurved, 

 with fringe of stiff red hairs projecting forward slightly ; notch 

 on sides behind clypeus then swells out to | and then inwards, 

 ending in a truncation slightly narrower than width of clypeus. 

 Thorax and caput cannot be separated except by colour. Clypeus 

 and a triangle from outside eyes 4 to centre of cephalothorax is 



Text- figure 1. 



Strigoplus albostriatus E. Sim., ^ . 



a. Prosoma from above, b. Do. profile, c. Do. from in front, d. Sternum &c. 

 e. Opisthosoma from above, f. Do. from below. 



light yellow (caput), remainder darker yellow-brown (thorax). 

 Caput has a still lighter fine line proceeding forward from apex 

 of triangle and stopping just beyond line of 3 . 3 at a transverse 

 line of stiff hairs similar to those on clypeus. This line is 

 slightly expanded into a dot immediately after its start. A 

 similar light line crosses this at right angles between 4 . 4, the 

 two lines together forming a faint but distinct cross. Eyes 2 and 

 4 are on tubercles with a distinct blue tinge which is striking. 

 Line centre to eye 4 is marked by two light dots similar to that 

 on central line, and these clots form approximately the line of 

 demarcation between the light and dark portions (caput and 



