and under sides, including the Spinnerets ; it is sparsely clothed with short 

 flat white hairs. On the underside are two longitudinal rows of impressed 

 spots. 



The Cephalothorax is glabrous, as broad as long, tapering to a bluntly 

 rounded front, it is strongly convex, much rounded at the sides of the thoracic 

 part, a very distinct broad fovea separating the cephalic part from the 

 thoracic. Viewed from above both roWs of Eyes are recurved and ail about 

 equal in size ; the front median are twice their diameter apart and rather more 

 than their diameter from the laterals. The rear row is longer than the front. 

 The median eyes are four times their diameter apart, and more than half that 

 distance from the laterals. The two rows are three diameters apart, and the 

 Clypeus as wide as a back and front median eye and the space between. 



The Mandibles are conical with thin weak fangs. The Lip is as broad as 

 long, tapering from the base to a rounded point, and more than half the length 

 of the Maxillae which lean over it. The Sternum is as broad as long, straight 

 in front, and passing with a straight stem between the rear coxae, which are 

 widely separated. 



The A hdomen is ovate, smallest and nearly straight in front, and almost 

 circular at the rear. 



The Legs are long and fine. Scopulae on all tarsi, two spines above on 

 the femora of the rear two pairs. 



The measurements in millimetres are as follows : — 



Long. Broad i 



Ceph. I I (J in front). 



Abd. 2 2 



Mand. § 



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

 Legs 



Palpi 



Two females from Yiin-t'ing Shan, Shansi, North China, ninety miles 

 west of T'ai-yiian Fu. 



This species resembles in size and some points the Rev. O. P. Cambridge's 

 Diaea subdola from Tarkand (loc. cit.), but his description is too meagre to 

 render it certain. 



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