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the occipital portion of it. The colour is a dark reddish yellow-brown, and there are some 
coarse greyish hairs on the surface, which is also finely punctuose. 
The eyes are small, and placed in three widely separated groups ; the central group of 
four eyes (forming a quadrangular figure whose anterior side is the shorter, and its posterior 
side the longer) is placed near the lower part of the foreside of the caput, the height of the 
clypeus rather exceeding the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes, which are a little the 
largest of the eight. These of each lateral pair are placed obliquely, close above the insertion 
of the f alces, and separated from each other by an interval of at least the diameter of the fore- 
lateral eyes, which are larger than the hind-lateral. 
The legs are short and slender ; there is very little difference in the length of those of 
the first, second, and fourth pairs, the third pair being the shortes t. They are of a dull yellow 
colour tinged with orange, annulated with reddish yellow-brown, and furnished with hairs 
and slender bristles only. 
The palpi are short, slender, and similar to the legs in colour and armature. 
Th efalces are rather long, strong, prominent at their base in front, and slightly diver- 
gent, obliquely truncated at their fore extremity on the inner side, the oblique poition being 
armed with a single row of short strong teeth and long bristly hairs. Tlieir colour is rather 
paler than that of the cephalothorax, with a darker suffusion across the middle. 
The maxillae are strong and considerably inclined towards the labium, which is small 
and of a curvilinear triangular form. The colour of the maxilla; is yellow-brown ; that of the 
labium paler. 
The sternum is of a similar form to that of the labium, only of course much larger, and 
With its apex pointed in the opposite direction ; it is of a dull orange yellow-brown colour, 
with some red-brown marginal indentations between the points of insertion of the legs. 
The abdomen is large, of an oval form, more pointed before than behind, where it is 
very bluff and rounded. The general convexity is great, though the upper surface is rather 
flat, and it projects greatly over the base of the cephalothorax. On each side of the upper 
part is a longitudinal row of small pointed (or conical) protuberances, and another longitudinal 
vow of three similar protuberances bisects the hinder part of the abdomen ; the foremost of 
these last is nearly in a straight, transverse line with the hinder one of each of the other row. 
The upper part of the abdomen is of a dull golden-yellowisb colour, marked on each side of 
the central line with blackish-brown, including the inside half of each of the conical pro- 
tuberances, and leaving a clear, broadish, longitudinal, median yellow band, from which two 
curved lateral stripes, edged with black, issue on each side from its hinder half, and a 
Prominent point on each side of its fore part; the sides are obliquely rugulose, and, with the 
Under side, are yellowish, marked with dark brown ; some of the lower lateral markings are 
oblique, and from the genital aperture two parallel, blackish streaks, close together, run to the 
s pinners. The epigyne connected with the genital aperture is prominent, tapering, pointed, 
a nd a little directed backwards. 
This spider is remarkable from the genus having only been previously recorded as 
indigenous to Ceylon. 
Hah . — Murree to Sind Yalley, July 14th to August 5tli, 1873. 
67. — Chorizoopes congener, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 2 lines. 
The caput is greatly elevated, broad, well rounded on all sides above, and highest at the 
