6 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



palpi are reddish-orange coloured; the maxilloe, labium, and sternum bright orange-brown, and 

 the abdomen dull clay- coloured. In these respects there is, therefore, little or no difference 

 between the present and many other species of Dysdera, nor is there any remarkable differ- 

 ence either in the form of the cephalothorax or in the position of the eyes ; the surface of the 

 former, although not marked with any distinct punctures, is not glossy ; the normal grooves 

 and indentations, though visible, are very slightly defined and it is uniformly but not greatly 

 convex ; the fore part is broadly truncated, and the caput is a little constricted at the lateral 

 margins. The c.ep halo thorax is remarkably small, and short, compared to the length of the 

 abdomen. 



The eyes (six in number) are placed round a slight tubercular elevation close to the 

 fore part of the caput, the height of the clypeus being not more than equal to the diameter of 

 one of the foremost eyes ; those of the posterior row (four) are equal in size, contiguous to 

 each other, and form, as nearly as possible, a straight transverse line ; immediately in front of 

 each lateral eye of this row, is another larger one contiguous to it, and forming an oblique 

 line in relation to the hinder row, so that the row consisting of the two anterior eyes is rather 

 shorter than the hinder row. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength, and their relative length is 1, 4, 2, 3. They 

 are furnished very sparingly with hairs, and these are chiefly on the under side ; those of the 

 third and fourth pairs have also a few short, fine spines ; the tarsi are very short and 

 terminate with two curved, pectinated clawss beneath which is a small compact claw-tuft, 

 behind this the tarsi and the anterior portion of the metatarsi are thickly fringed underneath 

 with hairs. 



The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, and are furnished with hairs and brist T .es, the 

 fore part of the digital joint being rather thickly clothed with them, and its extremity is 

 furnished either with two small claws, or else with a short curved denticulation springing 

 from the base of the ordinary claw; the hairs and bristles surrounding this part make it 

 difficult to ascertain this exactly. 



Thefalces are moderately long, porrected, and rather hollowed on the inner side of their 

 fore half ; their length does not exceed half that of the cephalothorax, and the front surface 

 near their base is furnished with a few minute tubercular granulations. 



The maxillae are rather long, strong, excavated on the side towards the labium, obliquely 

 truncated at the extremity, and convexly rounded on the outer side above the point where the 

 palpi are articulated; at this point, which is nearly about the middle, the maxillae are very strong. 



The labium is rather more than two-thirds of the length of the maxillae, and is very 

 broad at its base, a little way above which there is a transverse suture or indentation ; its 

 sides above this are hollowed ; the apex is also hollowed, or strongly, and roundly, indented. 



The sternum is oval, obtusely pointed behind, truncated before, and strongly impressed 

 at the points between the insertions of the legs. 



The abdomen is large and of an oblongo-cylindrical form ; this character alone distin- 

 guishes it at once from all other described species known to me. It is thinly clothed with 

 very short hairs, and the spinners are short and inconspicuous. 



The male differs in no essential respect from the female, except in being rather smaller, 

 and, of course, in the smaller size of the abdomen, which, however, preserves the same cylin- 

 drical oblong form; the palpi are very like those of Dysdera, cambridgii, Thor. (D. ery- 

 thrina, Bl.), but the palpal organs are of a much more elongated form. 



Hab. Murree, between June Hth and July 14th, 1873. 



