CAEROSTRIS PARADOXA. DoL 
1S59. Eptira parad&xa^ Dol,, Tweede Bijdr.^ eta, ]>. 37, pi, IX., fig. n— lic; pi. X., 
figs, 8— Sc. 
? iSSo. Cmrosiris mifraHs^ Thor,, Freg, Eugeivfes resa., Arachn., i, 4. 
18S0. „ pamdoxai Butl,, Proceed, of the Z-ool. Soc, of Londoin, 1S79, P- 73^i 
PL LVIII.. figs. 5~st>- 
1S90. „ „ Thor., StudL etc., IV., Vol. i, p. 77. 
1895. „ J, id. The S()iders of Burma, p. 207. 
Description of Plate 25 $.~ir, spider^ natural size ; b-^ profile of spider; (f, ccphalo 
thorax, underside ; d, eyes and fakes ; / epigyne (probably immature). 
This curious spider is said by Vinson to li%'e in vertical webs, and he also gives 
drawings of how it sits on branches which, by its appearance to a growth on the branch, 
probably serves as a protection, c? unknown. 
Mr. R. J, Pococlc, of the British IStuseum (at my reiiuest) kindly examined the speci- 
men of CacrastriSf allied to Paradoxal in that collection, and he writes of them as follows 
" C, pamd&xa (Dol.), judging from adult ? examples from Java and Ceylon in the 
Museum is perfectly distinct from all the Madagascar species we possess. 
*' (i) The pale band on the tiha; covers half the lower surface of the segment, and is 
yellow. In the others this band covers only one third of the tibia and is quite white. 
** (2) The protarsi (metatarsi) are much wider, and ihe one on the 4th leg is deeply 
excavated above. In the Madagascar forms the 4lh protarsae has no dorsal excavation, and 
those on the anterior two pairs of legs are slender and have a different curvature. 
" (3) The tibia and tarsus of the jjalp are less expanded, the length of the tibia lx;ing 
nearly twice its width ; whereas in the Madagascar species the width is about four^fiflhs of 
the length. 
" (4) The epigyne is quite different — apart from minor but sufficiently obvious 
distinctions connected with the shape of the impressions, it may l>e recognised by the 
absence of two basally contiguous, apical! y diverging teeih which project backwards over 
the impressions in all the Madagascar species known to me. 
** In speaking of the Madagascar species I do not include C tubtrcuhmi (Vins,)" 
