44 SECOND Y ARK AND MISSION. 



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these two sub-abdominal stripes are, in Meta decorata, BL, replaced by the whole of that part 

 being silvery, whereas the intermediate space between the silvery stripes, in the present 

 spider, has only a few silvery specks on its fore half. The space between the spinners and the 

 upper side has also some silvery spots upon it. 



This spider is also nearly allied to Meta quinquelineata, Keys (from Bogota, S. Amer.), 

 but is, I think, certainly of a distinct species. It is also distinct from another nearly allied 

 (and undescribed) species received from Bombay from Major Julian Ilobson. 



Sab. Murree, June Ilthto July 14th, 1877. 



Genus TETRAGNATHA, Walok. 



53. TETRAGNATHA EXTENSA. 



Tetragnatha extenia, Linn., Syst. Nat. Ed. 10, i, p. 621. 



Several specimens, which I believe to be of this species, were contained in the collection. 

 Sab. Kashghar, December 1873 ; Sind Valley, August 5th to 13th, 1873 ; Yarkand, 

 May 21st to 27th, 1874; and route from Yarkand to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 1874. 



Genns EPSlRA, Walck. 



61. EPEIRA TARTARICA. 



Epeira tartarica, Kronenberg, Reise in Turkestan v. Alexis Fedtschenko, Moscow, 1875, p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Adult and immature females were contained in the collection. 

 Kab. Neighbourhood of Leh, August and September 1873. 



55. EPEIRA BIGIBBOSA, sp. n. 



Immature female : rather over 1 line in length. 



Although it is very young, I think this spider is of a different species from several with a 

 protuberance or gibbosity on each side of the fore extremity of the abdomen already de- 

 scribed by different authors. 



The whole of the fore part is of a dull yellowish hue, except the sternum, which is 

 yellow-brown ; the cephalothorax is suffused with yellow-brown in the indentations by which 

 the union of the caput and thorax is indicated, and has a somewhat triangular patch of a 

 cream-white colour at the occiput. 



The legs are rather short and moderately strong ; their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3, and 

 they are furnished with hairs and bristles only. 



The eyes are on slight dark tubercles ; those of the hind-central pair are the largest of the 

 eight, and considerably larger than the rest, and are divided from each other by a diameter's 

 interval ; the space which divides each from the hind-lateral on its side being double, if not 

 more, of that diameter : those of the fore-central pair are less than half the size of the 

 hind-centrals ; they are separated from each other by two diameters' interval, but yet form a 

 line shorter than that formed by the hind-centrals. The four central eyes form a square whose 

 foremost side is rather shorter than the rest ; those of each lateral pair are placed very 



