The Abdomen is oval and convex, fairly thickly covered with short smooth 
downlying hair on the upper side, thick and coarser at the sides and underneath. 
The Spinnerets are two jointed, the lower joint broadly cylindrical the 
upper hemispherical. The Epigyne is roughly triangular the upper edge 
straight with a median ridge descending therefrom into a sloping hollow. 
The measurements in millimeters are as follows :— 
Long. Broad. 
Ceph. II 9 (2% to 54 in front). 
Abd. 14 Io 
Mand. 5 
Coxae. Tr. & Fem. Pat. & Tib. Metat. & Tar. 
5e 043 
Legs I 34 84 84 10 = 304 
2 33 8 8 oy = 29 
3 34 8 7 9 =) Ae 
4 34 10 83 12h pe ae 
Palpi 2 5 4h 3 SE 
(Pat. shorter than Tibia). 
One female from the mountainous forest country of Yiin-t’ing Shan, 
N. China. Captain Douglas, V.C. 
PARDOSA, SOWERBYI SP. N. 
On the Cephalothorax is a red brown median stripe from the rear row of 
eyes to the rear and a similarly coloured marginal stripe, both with white 
downlying hair; between these on the sides it is black brown with dark 
brown hair on the upper part, on the lower margin reddish, and the same 
at the sides of the eye space. The eye space itself is black brown. The 
Mandibles are red brown with short greyish yellow bristles at the base and 
outer margin, and longer upstanding brown hair on the remainder, the 
fangs are red at the base, darker at the point, but nearly black in the middle. 
Lip and Maxillae are orange with paler edging. Sternum rich yellow brown 
at the sides with a paler longitudinal median stripe thickly clothed with 
white, and a few brown bristly hairs. The Coxae and Femora underneath are 
bright orange with white hair and grey spines ; the upper sides of the legs are 
dark brown with brown and white hairs. There is a grey Scopula on the tarsi 
and lower end of the metatarsi of the front two pairs, and brown hairs on the 
two rear pairs. The Abdomen is a uniform red brown above with downlying 
short reddish yellow hair, black brown at the sides, underneath pale 
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