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yellow margined with brown, and with a longitudinal median hand of a rusty reddish-hrown 

 hue, as hroad as the hinder row of eyes, where it begins, but thence tapers gradually to 

 the hinder extremity of the cephalothorax. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position ; those of the hind- central pair are nearer together 

 than each is to the hind-lateral eye on its side, while those of the fore-central pair are further 

 from each other than each is from the fore-lateral on its side. The four central eyes form a 

 square, and those of each lateral pair are seated contiguously and obliquely on a small 

 tubercle ; the clypeus is strongly and sharply impressed immediately below the eyes, but 

 prominent at its lower margin, and its height exceeds half that of the facial space. 



The legs are rather short, slender, of a pale, dull yellowish colour, with a slight black- 

 brown marking beneath the extremities of each joint, and are furnished with hairs and some- 

 what spine-like bristles. 



The palpi are slender, short, and similar to the legs in colour and armature. 



Thefalces are not very long nor strong, but a little projecting ; they are of a dull yellow- 

 ish colour suffused with brown. 



The maxillcB and Idbium are of normal form, and similar in colour to the legs ; the 

 labium, however, is suffused with brown. 



The sternum is triangular, and its colour is like that of the legs, with a marginal blackish 

 line. 



The abdomen is large and globular, and projects considerably over the base of the 

 cephalothorax ; it is of an almost uniform chalky-white colour, with the faintest possible 

 traces of a longitudinal, median, denticulate band on the upper side, having some oblique 

 lateral lines issuing from it; this pattern is rendered just visible by being of a rather clearer 

 white colour than the rest ; the median longitudinal line of the upper side has also a dull 

 brownish, broken line, from which finer, oblique, lateral lines issue here and there ; the spin- 

 ners are surrounded by a dull brownish circular band on which are several rather conspicuous 

 white spots. The genital aperture is of a transverse oval form edged with dark brown, and 

 placed at the hinder part of a roundish prominence. 



This spider is evidently nearly allied to Theridion simile, C. L. Koch. 



Hub.- Murree to Sind Valley, July 14th to August 5th, 1873. 



38. THERIDION TUBERCULATUM. 



Theridion tuberculatum, Kronenberg, Reise in Turkestan von Alexis Fedtschenko, Moscow, 1875, p. 9, pi. r., fig. 40. 



This little white Theridion may readily be distinguished from T. expallidatum by a small 

 sub-conical, somewhat tubercular eminence on the hinder part of the upper side of the abdo- 

 men. The cephalothorax has a narrow longitudinal median brown stripe of which the ante- 

 rior portion is bifid ; and the abdomen, which is of a dull yellowish- brown colour thickly 

 covered with cretaceous- white confluent spots, has an irregular, somewhat sub-dentate, longi- 

 tudinal, median, dull brownish band, emitting backwards a few fine oblique lines of the same 

 colour. The whole of the fore part of this spider is of a dull pale yellow hue ; the legs are 

 long, slender, and furnished with hairs, bristles, and slender bristle-like spines. 



Sab. Murree, June llth to July 14th, 1873. 



39. THERIDION INCERTUM, sp. n. 

 Adult male : length 1J lines. 



The cephalothorax is short-oval, slightly constricted laterally at the caput, which is broad 



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