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is of ordinary form ; it has a brownish-black marginal line, or border, and a longitudinal, 

 median, blackish-yellow-brown band extending from the eyes to the hinder margin (where 

 it is narrower than at its commencement), and divided longitudinally by a fine paler 

 line. 



The eyes are small, and in the usual four pairs, occupying the whole width of the 

 upper side of the fore part of the caput. Those of the hind- central pair are a little nearer 

 to each other than each is to the hind-lateral eye on its side ; those of the front row are 

 equidistant from each other ; and those of each lateral pair are contiguous to each other, and 

 placed obliquely on a slight tubercle. The four central eyes form a square. The clypeus is 

 impressed immediately below the fore-central eyes, but prominent towards its lower margin, 

 and its height exceeds half that of the facial space. 



The legs are tolerably long, and rather slender ; they are furnished with, hairs and 

 numerous bristles ; many of the latter, especially of those benath the metatarsi and tarsi 

 being of a spine-like character. Their relative length is 1, 4, 2, 3, those of the first pair con- 

 siderably the longest. 



The palpi are short and slender ; the cubital joint is half the length of the radial, and 

 the digital is nearly double the length of the radial. Their armature is like that of the 

 legs. 



Thefalces are rather weak, moderate in length, and straight, but a little projecting. 



The maxillae are long, o normal form, and their extremities are even with the extremities 

 of the falces. 



The labium is short, but of ordinary form. 



The sternum is heart-shaped. 



The abdomen is almost globular above, and projects over the base of the cephalothorax ; 

 it is of a dull luteous colour with a broad median dentated white band along the middle of the 

 upper side, prolonged to the spinners in a narrow white stripe; the upper part of the sides 

 have also an irregular longitudinal white band connected with the median band by three 

 oblique narrow white stripes or lines ; and close to the base of each of these oblique lines, i.e., 

 where they join the lateral white bands, is a distinct black spot. There is also another black 

 spot at the hinder termination of the lateral band, with another on each side immediately 

 and close above the base of the spinners, and one underneath immediately in front of tho 

 spinners. All these black spots, which are very distinct and characteristic, form two longi- 

 tudinal lines converging to the spot under the spinners, which are also surrounded by some 

 white spots ; the lower part of the sides, and a broad longitudinal band on the under side 

 are more or less mottled with small white spots. 



The male resembles the female in colours and markings, but its abdomen is far less 

 convex above, and the first pair of legs are much longer ; the fore-extremities also of the 

 femora and tibiae of those of the first and second pairs are of a reddish-yellow-brown. 



The palpi are short ; the humeral joint is enlarged and tumid towards its hinder extre- 

 mity, and the radial is much, and broadly, produced at its outer extremity, where it is fringed 

 with a single row of strong bristles ; the digital joints are of moderate size, oval, and bristly 

 with their convex sides turned towards each other. The palpal organs (which are thus 

 directed outwards) are rather complex, but possess no very markedly prominent processes. 



JIa&. Sind Valley, August 5th to 13th, 1874. 



This spider is nearly allied to T. nervosum ("Walck.), which it resembles in the general 

 character of its markings, though its colours are quite different. 



