2 SECOND YiRKAND MISSION. 



In the systematic list of species folloAving tlie present descriptions, figures are added 

 notifying in which of Mr. Hume's regions each species occurred. Supplementary lists are 

 also appended of the spiders found in each separate region, with figures showing in what 

 other regions, if any, each occurred. Prom these lists, it will be seen that one species only 

 ( that mentioned above) was common to all the five regions ; three others were common to 

 four of the regions ; four others common to three regions ; and fourteen others common to 

 two of them ; sixty-six of the species being, as above observed, found only in region 1 of 

 Mr. Hume, corresponding exactly to the first region indicated, as it seems to me, by the 

 character of the spiders themselves. 



The regions named by Mr. Hume are : 



(J f ) " Cashmere including Murree and the road /hence to Cashmere." This comprises 

 the spiders noted in my descriptions as Murree, Mtirree to Sind vnlley, and Sind valley. 



(2) " Ladakh, from the Zojeela Pass to the head of the Pankong Lake." This 

 comprises the spiders noted in my descriptions as Neighbourhood of Leh, and Tantze to 

 Chagra, and Pankong valley. 



(3) " The mountain masses between the head of the Pankong Lake and the plains 

 of Ydrkand" comprising only the spiders noted as Ydrkand to Bursi, there being no 

 spiders in the collection labelled as having been obtained during the forward journey from 

 the Pankong Lake to the plains of Yarkand. 



(4) " The plains of Ydrkand," comprising the spiders noted as Ydrkand and neigh- 

 bourhood, and Ydrkand." Excepting the three species mentioned as subtropical in my second 

 region, there were no spiders, in this region 4 of Mr. Hume, differing in character from the 

 general run of those in his regions 2, 3, and 5. 



(5) " The high country west of Ydrkand, the hil/s leading up to the Pamir, the Pamir 

 and TFokhan." This comprises the spiders noted as Kdshyhar, between Yangihissdr and 

 Kirikol, Yangihissdr, road across the Pamir from Sirikol to Panjah and back, and hills 

 betioeen Sirikol and Aktalla. 



It will be seen from the above that my first region corresponds exactly with region 1 of 

 Mr. Hume, and that my second region includes Mr. Hume's regions 2, 3, 4, and 5. 



The localities noted for each species in my descriptions are those written (I suppose by 

 Dr. Stoliczka himself) upon the several bottles in which the spiders were contained. No 

 attempt had been made to separate the species in each bottle, nor, with one exception, is there 

 anything in Dr. Stoliczka's diary referring intelligibly to the separate contents of the bottles. 

 Dr. Stoliczka's notes on the spiders are very few, and of the most general description. In the 

 one exceptional instance (Diary, p. 3, dated 19th July 1873, Tinali}, the note refers to the 

 capture of a " great number of spiders, chiefly Thoursus " (probably a misprint for Thomisns, 

 though there were very few Thomisids in this bottle) " and Sphassus [Sphas^ls^ ; among the 

 latter I recognised Sphasus viridanus." Now, there was not a single example of Sphasus in 

 any one of the bottles, excepting in one, which contained no label nor any other clue either 

 to the locality or its contents ; the mention therefore of Sphasus is thus important, and fixes 

 the locality in which the contents of this unlabelled bottle were collected. The Sphasus 

 viridanus alluded to is a Calcutta species, described by Dr. Stoliczka himself ( Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc., Bengal, vol. xsxviii, p. 220, pi. xx, fig. I), but is quite distinct from either of the 

 three species found in this bottle (vide remarks on these species, infra). 



Out of the 132 species in the collection, I can only determine 23 as certainly identical 

 with European species already described, leaving 109, which I believe to be new to science. 



