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obliquely and contiguously. When looked at from in front, the eye area is in the form of a 

 triangle whose apex (at the hind-central pair) is truncated, and whose base is formed by the 

 lateral and fore-central pairs, which, from this point of view, are in a perfectly straight line. 

 The height of the clypeus is about one-third that of the facial space. 



The abdomen is white; its fore part, which is broad and has a strongish, pointed, conical 

 gibbosity on the upper side at each fore corner, projects considerably over the base of the 

 cephalothorax ; these gibbosities are tipped with dark brown. The greater part of the hinder 

 half is occupied by a very broad dentated brown band which narrows to the spinners, and is 

 itself mottled with white ; the under side is dull brownish, with a curved white stripe on each 

 side of the hinder part. 



No doubt some variation in colours, and perhaps in markings, will be found in the adult 

 form ; but the above details will, I think, be found sufficient for the determination of the 

 species, whether in the adult or immature state. 



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



56. EPEIRA PELLAX , sp. n. 



Adult female : length 3| lines 



This spider is allied to Epeira bigibbosa, but may easily be distinguised by a difference in 

 the relative size and position of the eyes, as well as by its spinous and annulated legs. 



The cephalothorax is dull yellow-brownish on the sides, and the caput has also one or 

 two, indistinctly defined, yellow-brown markings, and its surface is clothed with a coarse 

 greyish-sandy pubescence. 



The eyes are rather small, of a dull, amber yellowish-brown colour, and do not differ 

 greatly in size ; those of the hind-central pair are the largest, and, with the fore- centrals, 

 which appear to be next in size (though not very much smaller), form very nearly a square ; 

 the fore-side of the square being, if anything, slightly longer than the hinder one : the 

 interval between the hind-centrals is equal to a diameter, but that between each of them and 

 the hind-lateral eye on its side is equal to at least four diameters of the hind-central eye. 



The legs are rather short and tolerably strong ; their relative length appears to be 1, 4, 2, 

 3, though the difference between those of the first, second, and fourth pairs is slight ; their 

 colour is yellow, clouded, and irregularly annulated, with dark yellow-brown ; they are also 

 furnished with hairs, bristles, and short spines. 



The falces are short and moderately strong, a little prominent near their base in front ; 

 they are similar in colour to the cephalothorax, suffused a little with brownish on their outer 

 sides. 



The maxillae and labium are normal in form, and of a pale-yellowish colour, suffused 

 with brownish towards their bases. 



The sternum is heart-shaped ; the anterior side truncated in a hollow line. 



The abdomen is short, and broad in front, with a short, roundish, conical protuberance on 

 each side of the forepart ; from a little way behind each of these protuberances, a sinuous, or 

 sub-dentate, dark-brown line, edged with whitish on its outer side, runs backwards towards 

 the spinners ; these lines do not reach the spinners, nor do they meet each other, since they 

 run nearly parallel during the latter part of their length ; the space included by these lines is 

 mottled with white, and contains some dull-brownish ^survi- angular, transverse lines, bisected 

 through their angles (which are directed forwards) by a longitudinal median line of the same 



