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The Hersiliidae are much flattened, long legged spiders, with very long pointed 
spinerettes ffig. 13). They live on tree trunks and walls, adapting their 
colour to that of their surroundings, and are very difficult to detect until 
they are disturbed, when they dart to a new resting place and again become 
practically invisible. Only one species, Hersilia savignyi, appears to be 
common in India. 
In the space of a short article like this it is impossible to do more than indi- 
cate something of the habits and systematic position of the sjuders most likely 
to come to the notiee of field naturalists in India, and a glance at the “ Fauna of 
British India ” or at the “ Cambridge Natural History ” vill show how many 
whole families have been entirely omitted. I am always glad to enlighten 
members, so far as I am able, as to any spiders they may find which specially 
interest them. But in spiders as in so many other groups, the literature is both 
extensive and difficult and specific identification is more often than not imprac- 
ticable at present. 
