ANT-LIKE SPIDERS FROM MALAYA. 



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is extended towards labium and also outwards to inner angle at 

 termination of serrula, where hairs are grey and as long as width 

 of maxilla. 



Width at end = labium. Colour light mahogany except for 

 outer edge, which is as dark as cephalothorax. 



Labium. — In length | maxilla, terminating half way up it. 

 Breadth ^ length. Tapers very slightly from base to apex, which 

 is square. Sides straight. Apex has a scopula of dark hairs. 

 Colour as dark as outer portion of maxilla except for apex, which 

 is light. 



Palpi. — Spring from near base of maxilla. Trochanter length 

 5= width maxilla. Dark brown except for light yellow on inner 

 basal side. Femur > half length of caput, flattened, narrow 

 at both ends where its width > -§ length. Patella < femur, 

 wedge-shaped, broadening at apex from narrow base. Tibia 

 broadens from base to apex, where it is twice width of patella 

 apex. Tarsus slightly longer than patella, with rounded point. 

 Tibia and tarsus together form a lanceolate plate, glabrous below, 

 nearly twice femur in length, with strong fringes of hairs on 

 both sides and round point. All joints except patella have short 

 grey hairs on back. General colour dark brown-green, except 

 as mentioned for trochanter. Total length of palpus where 

 extended = 2 falx, the basal end of tibia being about level with 

 apex of falx. 



Legs. — Order 4.1.3.2, with 4 and 1 practically equal and 

 likewise 3 and 2. In the 1st leg patella -j- tibia and in the 4th 

 metatarsus -f- tarsus are notably long compared with the other 

 legs. 



1st. Coxa length = 2| breadth, very slightly tapering, light yellow 

 except for brown patch at lower outer vertex. 



Trochanter = \ coxa, narrower, light yellow except for con- 

 tinuation of coxal brown patch strengthened. 



Femur strongly clubbed at base, < patella -f- tibia > tibia, 

 dark except below at apical end. 



Patella > ^ tibia, slightly curved downwards. No spines. 

 Dark at sides, light above and below. 



Tibia. Has normally 7 spines on the inner and 6 on the outer 

 side below, but there are frequently 6 pairs. The spines 

 are evenly spaced from base to apex, but the largest are 

 in the middle and they get rapidly shorter, so that the 

 apices of the last 3 or 4 are all about level near the end of 

 the joint Dark at sides, light above and below. 



Metatarsus > patella, with two pairs of strong spines longer 

 and stronger than those of tibia, the last of which reach to 

 beyond the middle of tarsus. Dark. 



Tarsus < \ metatarsus, with claw-tuft and 2 claws. 

 2nd. c equally broad and long, swollen near base, < k c x . Dark 

 brown with a touch of light at apex. 



tr short = i c, cylindrical, brown with light patch below. 



f slightly clubbed at base, brown with light below at apex. 



