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spine-like bristle directed forwards; other bristles evidently belong to this part, but they had 

 been rubbed otT. 



The eyes are of tolerable but nearly uniform size, and form a large, transverse, crescent- 

 shaped area on the front and sides of the upper part of the caput ; the two rows have the 

 convexity of their curve directed forwards, the front row being much the more strongly 

 curved, and its eyes rather larger than those of the hinder row. The eyes of the hinder row 

 (which is the longer) are very nearly, if not quite, equally separated, the interval rather 

 exceeding two diameters of one of the central pair ; the interval between the eyes of the fore- 

 central pair, which is of a black colour, is double that between each and the fore-lateral eye 

 on its side, and the line formed by them is very little longer than that formed by those of the 

 hind-central pair. The four central eyes form a rectangle, whose transverse is greater than its 

 longitudinal diameter ; the eyes of each lateral pair are seated obliquely, but not quite con- 

 tiguously, on a large, black, and slightly tubercular spot. 



The legs are short, tolerably strong and tapering ; those of the fourth pair are the long- 

 est ; the rest differ very little in length, perhaps that of the first pair a little exceeds that 

 of the second, the third pair being slightly the shortest. They are furnished with hairs, and 

 a double, divergent row of longish fine spines beneath the tibiae, tarsi, and metatarsi ; each 

 tarsus ends with three curved claws, which spring from a small prolongation (apparently a 

 distinct articulation) of the tarsus. The colour of the legs is a deep brown, but paler along 

 the upper sides, the hinder extremities of the femora being of a pale-yellowish hue. 



The palpi are short but tolerably strong ; they are of a dull-yellowish hue, suffused with 

 brown beneath and on the sides ; the digital joint ends with a curved, and apparently 

 pectinated, claw. 



The fa Ices are short, straight, perpendicular, moderately strong, and the fa n g i s slender ; 

 their length does not exceed the height of the clypeus, and their colour is yellowish-brown. 



The maxillae are small, short, and greatly inclined to the labium, over which their extre- 

 mities almost meet. 



The labium is very short, and somewhat pointed at its apex ; its colour, with that of the 

 maxillse, is a dull pale-yellowish, suffused, over all except their extremities, with brown. 



The sternum is heart-shaped, and similar to the cephalothorax in colour. 



The abdomen is of great size, heart-shaped, very convex above, and projects greatly over 

 the cephalothorax, which it (when looked at from behind) almost entirely conceals. Its 

 colour is a dull dark-brown, the upper side being densely covered with small, silvery, slightly 

 yellowish-white metallic spots ; leaving a large, transverse, somewhat oblong, brown area at 

 the fore extremity, and a large arrow-headed brown marking in the middle : the point of this 

 marking is directed backwards, going off into a fine yellow-brown line nearly to the spinners ; 

 and from the middle of its fore extremity a short brown stripe runs forward into the oblong 

 patch of the same colour, and is crossed, close to it at right angles, by another brown line, 

 which connects the foremost pair of four small, deep-brown, impressed spots ; the hinder 

 pair of these spots are placed just on the fore margin of the arrow-headed marking, which 

 has, on its lateral margin, some other deep-brown spots and blotches, with a few small, silvery 

 spots on its forepart. The under side has two very distinct transverse lines of silvery spots ; 

 and on either side of them are some pale, parallel, and slightly oblique streaks and lines of 

 similarly coloured spots ; the spinners are short, those of the inferior pair being considerably 

 the stouter and rather the longer. 



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



