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a brown colour, large and of a long oval form, hairy, and bristly ; the palpal organs are very 

 large and cemplex, consisting of various yellowish-brown and dark red-brown corneous pro- 

 cesses. 



The fa Ices are neither very long nor strong; they are perpendicular, but removed far 

 back under the projecting fore part of the caput ; their colour (as well as that of the maxillas, 

 labium, and sternum, whose forms are normal) is like that of the legs. 



The abdomen is of a short, oblong-oval form, equal in size at each end, and tolerably 

 convex above. It is of a pale dull brownish-yellow colour ; the upper side is more or less 

 thickly mottled with white, leaving a broad median dull stripe on the fore half ; the hinder 

 extremity of this stripe has four (two on each side) obliquely diverging lines issuing from it, 

 and is itself continued by a fine line (all of the same dull hue) to the spinners. Four small 

 brown spots form a rectangle near the middle, and close behind the foremost pair of these 

 spots is a large, roundish patch, free of all white mottling ; a little behind the middle of the 

 sides are four or five distinct, parallel, transverse, black-brown, fine lines ; the hindermost 

 line is the strongest, and has a large spot of the same colour near its inner extremity, thus 

 altogether forming a transverse, interrupted line, appearing to cut off the extremity of the 

 abdomen. On the under side is a large, somewhat quadrate area of white ; and immediately 

 behind it, is a semi-circle of five distinct white spots not far in front of the spinners. 



This spider apparently belongs to the Epeira cucurbitina group. 



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



61. EPEIRA CUCURBITINA. 



Ef'eira cucurbitina, Clerck, Sv. Spindl. p. 44, pi. 2, tab. 4. 



An immature example of this very pretty, but common and widely-dispersed spider 

 was found in Dr. Stoliczka's collection. 



Hab. Sind Valley, 5th to 13th August 1873. 



62. EPEIRA CORNUTA. 



Epeira cornuta, Clerck, Sv. epindl. 



Hab. Immature examples, which are, I believe, Epeira cornuta, Clk., and are certainly 

 not distinguishable from immature European specimens of that species, were found in those 

 portions of the collection made at Yarkand and neighbourhood in November 1873, and 

 en route from Yarkand to Bursi between May 28th and June 17th, 1874. 



63. EPEIRA PANNIFERENS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 3 lines. 



The cephalothorax is rather strongly constricted laterally at the caput, which is tolerably 

 produced ; the normal indentations are strong, especially that at the thoracic junction, and 

 the oblique ones which mark the union of the caput and thorax. Its colour is pale yellow, 

 with the whole of the upper part of the caput and a broad lateral band, which runs very 

 near the margin the whole way round the cephalothorax, of an orange yellow-brown ; the 



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