PHRYNARACHNE DECIPIENS. Forbes. 
1853. TAomisus decipUns^ Forbes. On habits of Thomtsus decipiens^ p. 586, p). 51. 
1854, Ondihos€ataides „ Camb, On two new genera of spiders, ]i. 199, pi. xv>^ fig. 1, 
J 885, „ „ id, in Forbes A Naturalist's Wanderings, etc, p, 120. 
1890. Phrynanuhne Thor, Studi, etc, IV,, vol. I, p, 35. 
1890. „ „ id. Arachn, di Nias, etc., p, 94, 
Description of Plate 92 ? — ct, spider, mag ; ^, natural si^e ; c, profile ; d^ cephalo- 
thorax, underside ; eyes ; / epigyne ; jf, spider fastened to leaf. 
Total length, 14 I cephalottiorax, 5; breadth, 5; do. in front, 2^ ; abdomen, 9 ; 
breadth, 9 millim. Leg, i. — 20 \ ii. — -20; iii. — ii; iv. — xz niillim. Patella + tibia, i v. — 
4 millim. 
According to Forbes, this spider is of a pure chalk white when alive, and imitates the 
excreta of a bird for the pur|>Dse of catching its prey. 
This specimen is in my collection, and is in all probability the original type specimen 
described by Forbes from West Java, as this was part of his collection (noted from Java 
but without a number) purchased from Janion, of London. 
