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The/dices are short but strong, straight, and nearly perpendicular; they are roundly 

 prominent at their base in front; their fore surface is granulose and bristly, and their colour 

 like that of the cephalothorax. 



The maxilla are short, convex, and broad ; their extremities, where they are obliquely 

 and rather roundly truncated, being the broadest. 



The labium is short, broad, and of a somewhat oblong-oval form, the apex being very 

 slightly indented or hollowed ; the colour of the labium, as well as of the maxillae^ is like 

 that of the falces. 



The sternum is heart-shaped, uniformly convex, slightly punctuose, furnished with short 

 bristly hairs, and similar to the legs in colour. 



The abdomen is oval, more convex above than in spiders of the genus Clubiona in ' 

 general, and projects over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull clayey-brown colour; 

 the fore half of the upper side has a deep brown, longitudinal, central marking, enlarged in 

 the middle, sharp pointed at its posterior extremity, and followed to the spinners by 

 about six angular deep-brown bars, or chevrons, which decrease in length, from the first to 

 the last, just above the anus ; the angles of these chevrons are directed forwards ; that of the 

 first touching the pointed extremity of the central longitudinal markings on the fore half. 

 The sides of the abdomen are more or less covered with brown striated markings ; the spinners 

 are rather short, moderately strong,' and those of the superior and inferior pairs are of about 

 equal length. The genital aperture is of peculiar and characteristic form. 



Nab. Murree, June ] 1th to July 14th ; and near Leh, August and September, 1873. 



Fami\yDICTYNID ES. 



Genus DICTYNA, Strad. 



27. DICTYNA ALBIDA, sp. n. 



Adult female : length less than 1| lines. 



This spidrr belongs to the Dictyna variabilis (Koch) group. 



The cephalothorax is depressed on the sides and hinder part, and the caput is, rounded 

 on the upper side, but not raised above the usual level ; it is of a dull yellowish colour, with a 

 rather irregular, but distinct, marginal stripe, immediately above which, on each side, is a 

 broad yellowish-brown, longitudinal band ; the whole is covered, but not densely, with coarse 

 white hairs ; the height of the clypeus is less than half that of the facial space, being not 

 much more than equal to the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. 



The eyes are small and placed in two transverse curved rows near together ; the hinder 

 row is considerably the longer ; those of the hinder row are equidistant from each other, the 

 centrals being slightly the largest of the eight ; those of each lateral pair are placed oblique- 

 ly, and are very near to each other, but not quite contiguous ; the interval between the fore- 

 centrals is considerably greater than that between each and the lateral eye next to it ; 

 the latter interval being scarcely equal to the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes, whi-h 

 are the smallest of the eight ; the interval between the fore- and hind-central pairs is equal to 

 the diameter of one of the hind central eyes. The fore-central eyes form very nearly a 

 square, the posterior side being rather the longest. 



The legs are short and slender, their relative length appears to be 4, 1, 2, 3 ; they are of 



