34 SECOND YRKAND MISSION. 



35 THERIDION SUBITUM, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 2 lines. 



The whole of the fore part of this spider is of a dull orange-yellow colour. 

 The cephalothorax is of ordinary form, though rather shorter in proportion to its length 

 than in some other species of the genus ; its lateral margins are slightly suffused with whitish. 

 The eyes are of moderate size, in the usual four pairs, and tolerably closely grouped 

 together; those of the hinder row are equidistant from each other, and those of the fore- 

 central pair are a little further from each other than each is from the fore-lateral eye on its 

 side ; the four central eyes form nearly a square whose fore side is rather shorter than the 

 hinder one ; the height of the clypeus exceeds half that of the facial space. 



The lefts are slender and not very long ; they are a good deal denuded of armature, hut 

 are apparently furnished with hairs and bristles, many of the latter being of a slender, spine- 

 like character. A small portion at the extremity of the tibiae of the first and fourth pairs is 

 red-brown. 



The palpi are short and slender. 



Tlaef aloes are weak, slender, straight, and slightly projecting. 

 The labium and maxillae are of normal form, and their colour is yellow-brown. 

 The sternum is nearly triangular. 



The abdomen is of large size, very convex above, and projects considerably over the base 

 of the cephalothorax ; the hinder part also projects over the spinners, and the upper surface 

 is broad, the fore part presenting, on either side, the appearance of a kind of prominent 

 shoulder ; it is of a yellow-brown colour, completely covered above and on the sides with 

 irregular, but closely- fitted, yellowish- white spots, the interstices of which have the appearance 

 of fine yellowish-brown reticulations. Along the middle of the forepart is a dull brown 

 narrow band with a blunt prominent point continued into a fine irregular line : there are also 

 several dull-brown lines running backwards from its hinder extremity, which is rather 

 enlarged ; the spinners are short, compact, of a yellow-brown colour, and surrounded by a 

 dark-brown band. The colour of the genital aperture, and of the orifice of the breathing 

 organs, is red-brown. 



Hal. Murree, June llth to July 14th, 1874. 



36. THERIDION CONFUSTTM, sp. n. 



Adult female : length If lines. 



This spider is very nearly allied to Theridion denticulatum (Walck.), which it resembles in 

 size and form, but is, I think, quite distinct. It is altogether of a browner hue, and, although 

 the markings on the abdomen are very similar, there is an important difference in the median, 

 longitudinal, dentated band, the hinder part of which is, in the present spider, merely a 

 narrow, undenticulate, pale stripe. 



Hab. Murree, June llth to July 14th, 1874. 



37. THERIDION EXPALLIDATUM, sp. n. 



Adult female : length If lines. 



The cephalothorax of this spider is of ordinary form; its colour is a pale brownish. 



