46 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



hue; the sides are alternately slashed, or broadly and obliquely striped, with white and 

 yellowish-hrown. The under side is white, with a large, central, somewhat triangular, dull- 

 brownish area in the middle. The base of this triangle is towards the forepart, where it is 

 joined by a pedicular patch of the same colour, to the hinder margin of the genital opening. 

 This aperture has connected with it a long, strong, very prominent epigyne, divided into two 

 parts, a basal part whitish, tumid, and membranous in appearance, and a terminal portion 

 blackish-brown, corneous, curved, tapering, directed strongly forwards, and clothed with 

 hairs on its fore, or convex, side ; its hinder, or concave, side has a narrow, longitudinal slit or 

 duct. 



The spinners are normal, and surrounded, on the sides and behind, with a horseshoe- 

 shaped line of six white spots with dull-brownish intervals. 



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



57. EPEIRA GTJEDA, sp. n. 



A number of immature specimens, both male and female, of an Epeira which I believe 

 to be of an undescribed species, were contained in the collection, though, from their im- 

 maturity and the apparently faded state of their colouring, I do not venture to describe them 

 in detail. They are very nearly allied to Epeira cornuta, Clerck, the pattern on the abdomen 

 being very similar to that spider. The colours, however, are much duller, and the markings 

 far less distinct, and the legs are of a uniform dull-yellowish hue. One character alone will 

 serve to distinguish it at once from E. cornuta ; the eyes of the hind-central pair form a 

 line which is very nearly indeed, as long as that formed by those of the fore-central pair ; 

 but which in E. cornuta is distinctly (and indeed considerably) shorter. 



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



58. EPEIBA HARTJSPEX, sp. n. 



Adult female : length If lines. 



In its general form this spider is much like Epeira pellax ; it is, however, much smaller, 

 and differs in many material particulars ; it is also allied nearly to E. agalena, "Walck. 



The whole of the fore part, excepting the sternum, which is darker, and the normal 

 indentations of the cephalothorax, which are dusky brown, is of a dull yellowish-brown 

 colour. 



The eyes are small ; the four centrals form a square, but those of the hind-central pair 

 are considerably larger than the front- centrals and are separated from each other by a dia- 

 meter's distance, each being also divided from the hind-lateral on its side by more than 

 double that which separates them from each other. 



The legs are neither very long nor strong ; their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3, and the 

 tibiae are faintly annulated with reddish yellow-brown ; their armature had been all rubbed 

 off, but apparently it had consisted only of hairs and bristles. 



The/aloes are moderately long, tolerably strong, and roundly prominent near their base 

 in front. 



The maxillce and labium are of normal form, pale yellowish towards their extremities, 

 but dark brown on the basal part. 



