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Show 528 REV. o. P I C K A R D - C A M B R I D G E O N [Apr-18, also not greatly shorter than the others ; spines few and short, but there are numerous very short pale obtuse hairs. Colour yellow-brownish, mottled with red-brown and whitish ; femora, except at the base beneath, dark reddish brown ; beneath the tarsi and metatarsi is a kind of scopula of fine pale hairs, which extend over the extremity of the tarsi and form a sort of thin but extensive claw-tuft; the fore-sides of the femora are grauulose. Palpi short, robust; cubital joint subclavate and rather prominent in front • digital joint longer than the radial, of an elongate-oval form and ratbered flattened; terminal claw very minute. Colour like that of the legs. Falees conical, powerful; the profile continues the curve of the cephalothorax. Colour yellow, mottled with reddish yellow-brown. Maxillce moderately long, scarcely inclined to the labium, broader at their extremity, which is rounded on the outer side. Colour yellow, basal portion reddish brown. Labium oblong, more than half the length of the maxillae. Colour reddish yellow-brown. Sternum rather small, oval, truncate before, blunt-pointed behind. Colour dark yellow-brown, paler in the middle. Abdomen short, broad, broader than long, truncate before, where it fits up close to tbe wrhole width of the thorax, broadest behind ; covered thickly with not very large tubercles and granu-losities, the former subcorneal, and largest in the centre, along the outer margins, and behind. Colour yellow-brown mixed with brown and blackish of various shades, and a few small yellow-white irregular markings at the middle near the fore-margin and near the middle of the hinder margin. The sides and round the hinder part are strongly rugulose. Underside dark brownish, thickly clothed with prominent, pale, clavate hairs. Spinners short, very compact; colour yellow-brown. Genital aperture simple but of a characteristic form. Hab. Ceylon. Beceived many years ago from the late M r . G. H. K. Thwaites. There is probably considerable variation in the distribution of colours in this species; in one example the upper and hinder parts of the abdomen are almost entirely pale dull yellowish ; the hiuder part with only a few small but distinct blackish spots. HOLOPBLUS PIGER, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 10.) Adult female, length nearly 1| lines. Cephalothorax as long, or very nearly as long, as broad, subquadrate, with the corners rounded ; lateral marginal impressions at the caput very slight. Upper convexity considerable, though the surface is somewhat flattened, and the sides vertical; slightly highest near the posterior slope, which is very steep and abrupt. Clypeus equal to, if not slightly greater than, half the height of the facial space, and following tbe slope of the ocular area in profile. Colour dark reddish yellow-brown, with a large diffused dull orange-yellow patch in the central line just before the posterior slope, |