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The maxillce and labium are of normal form, and of a brownish -yellow colour, the latter 

 being the darker. 



The sternum is heart-shaped, broadly truncated at its fore extremity; its colour is yellow- 

 brown, suffused with deeper brown, furnished with long bristly hairs, and with a kind of 

 oval gibbosity at its hinder extremity. 



The abdomen is large and very convex above, projecting considerably over the cephalo- 

 thorax, and clothed with short grey hairs ; it is of a pale, dull brownish-yellow hue, marked 

 along the middle of the upper side with a series of strong, well-defined, blackish-brown angu- 

 lar bars of a W form, the extremities of these lines uniting with oblique lateral lines of black - 

 brown spots and markings. 



Hal). Sind Valley, August 5th to 13th, 1873. 



51. LlNYPHIA PTJSILLA. 



Linyphia pusilla, Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr. Vet.-Akad. Handl. f. 1829, p. 214. 



Sab. Two females of this spider contained in the portion of the collection made at 

 Yarkand, May 21st to 27th. 1874, and on the route thence to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 

 1874, differ in no respect from European examples of the same species. 



Family EPEIRIDES. 

 Genus META, C. L. Koch. 



52. META MIXTA, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 3| lines. 



This pretty spider is nearly allied to Meta (Tetragnatha) decorata, Bl., but it is smaller 

 and the abdomen, although its hinder extremity projects a little over the spinners, is not 

 drawn out behind into anything of a caudal form ; the fore extremity also is smooth and 

 rounded at the shoulders, instead of being somewhat humped or gibbous on those parts ; the 

 genital aperture also differs in its form. 



The cephalothorax, legs, and palpi are pale yellow ; the falces, maxillae, and labium, 

 rather suffused with brown, or reddish-brown ; and the stermtm dark reddish-brown ; the 

 extremities of the tibiae of the legs are dull reddish-brown. The abdomen is of a cylindric 

 oval form, rather narrower behind than before ; the upper part, and a portion of the sides, 

 are metallic and silvery in colour, and marked, longitudinally, with five dull brownish lines 

 or stripes. A median stripe, and another on each side of it, not reaching so far forwards as 

 the median one, meet at the hinder extremity ; these three longitudinal stripes are connected 

 on either side by three oblique lines of the same colour, issuing from the central stripe and 

 running obliquely backwards into the lateral one ; two of them are rather near together, not 

 far behind the middle of the abdomen ; the third is much nearer the fore part ; and, quite at 

 the fore extremity, is a transverse, dull-brown, slightly curved line ; the remainder of the 

 sides and the under side are dull yellowish-brown ; and on each side of the under part is a 

 longitudinal, slightly bent, silvery stripe from the spiracular openings to the spinners, 

 followed by a spot of the same kind close to the outer side of the inferior pair of spinners ; 



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