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Eleven new species of spiders are described in this paper. All were collected from Maharashtra and Mysore States, India. The new species belong to nine genera distributed in the family Thomisidae.
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Communicated by Prof. T. S. Mahabale,f.a.sc.
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Tikader, B.K. Studies on interesting South Indian crab-spiders (Family: Thomisidae). Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 58, 249–262 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03052105
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