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CHIRACANTHIUM MANGIFER^, sp. n. 
Descripiion of Plate So ? — spider, mag. ; ^, natural size ; f, profile ; cephalo- 
thorax, underside ; ^, eyes ; / epigyne ; S right palpus, from outside ; h, do, from 
below. 
9 Total length, ; cephalothorax, 4 ; breadth, 2^ ; do. in front, 1% ; abdomen, 
5J4 ; breadth, z millim. Leg, L — 9; ii.— lo^ iii.— 6^ ; iv, — 12 millim. Patella + tibia, 
iv.^ — 4 millim, 
S Total length, 7 ; cephalothorax, 3 ; breadth, i^/z ; abdomen, 4 ; breadth, 3 millim. 
Leg, — 22 ; ii. — ^i5;iii.— 10; iv.— 16 milHm. Patella + tibia, iv, — 5 millim, 
C, mangiferct constructs on the face of a mango leaf a closely woven curtain of white 
silk, about I inch long by an inch wide, behind which it lives. 
Its cocoon, made of eggs slightly matted together, was also fastened under this 
covering. 
Type in my collection. 
