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THERIDIUM HELOPHORUM. Thor. 
1895. Theridium helop/wrum, Thor. The Spiders of Burma, p 98 (note). 
Duscriptson of Plate 70 ? — a, spider^ mag. ; ^, natural size ; profile ■ cephalo- 
ihorax underside i eyes ; / epigyne ; do. profile ; snare, reduced ; /, cocoon, mag. 
Total length, z}( ; cephalothorax, about vj^; breadth, almost 1; abdomen, about 
i% ; breadth, 1% mitlim. Leg, i.— almost 4^/3 ; ii. — scarcely 3 ; iii,— about 2^6 ; iv.^ — 
about 4 millim. Patella + tibia, scarcely 1 miliim, (ThorclL) 
This spider makes an irregularly dome-shaped shelter, from % to %-mch in diameter, 
suspended among reticulated lines, beneath the summit of which it sits back downwards. 
I found two s|>ecimens in Java, the snare about 2 inches across, being constructed between 
rails. Cocoon, $ \ 2j4 niiilim, more than twice the siiie of the spider. 
Type in my collection. 
