which are three diameters of their median distant from them. The Clypeus is 

 the breadth of a front median eye. Both lateral eyes are nearly sessile: 



The Mandibles are slightly kneed at the base, the fangs short and weak. 

 The Lip is broader than long, less than half the length of the Maxillae, which 

 are rather widely divergent at their anterior ends. The Sternum is broad shield 

 shaped, convex, hollowed at the margin for the coxae, and pointed at the 

 rear end, where the coxae are contiguous. 



The Legs are tapering to the tarsal joints^ which are fine, cylindrical, and 

 rather short. The tarsal joint of the Palpi is flat and dilated at the base, and 

 the palpal claw has about four pectinations. The tibial and patellar joints are 

 of equal length. 



The Abdomen is nearly globular, but one-fifth longer than broad, the 

 surface is silky and rather finely granulated. The Spinnerets conical, two 

 jointed, rather large. 



The measurements in millimetres are as follows : — 



Long. Broad. 

 Ceph. 2 ij (f in front). 



Abd. 2 J 2 



Mand. f 



Coxae. Tro. & Fem. Pat. & Tib. Metat. & Tar. 

 Legs If if 



2 f li 



3 I I 



4 f li 

 Palpi i i 



One non-adult female from Yiin-t'ing Shan, North China, to which it is 

 not desirable to attach a name, although the species belongs to a series in the 

 genus of the type represented by A. hirtus C. Koch. 



Family Thomisidae, Sub-family Misumeninae, Group Diaee^e, 

 Genus Diaea, Thor. Species ? subdola, Cambr. 



The Cephalothorax has a wide oblong area of pale yellow reaching iirom 

 the margin of the Clypeus to the top of the rear slope. A similarly coloured 

 narrow stripe passes round the edge of the cephalic part with fine white hairs 

 thereon, the space intervening between the two being blotchy brown. The 

 Mandibles, Lip, Maxillae, and Sternum bright canary yellow ; Legs and Palpi 

 the same, with clusters of brown spots on the femora and tibiae, grey spines 

 and grey scopulae on the tarsi. The Abdomen is pale yellow on both upper 



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