50 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



band on the caput is of a rather elongated diamond shape, and is produced behind to the 

 thoracic junction. 



The eyes are in the usual four pairs, occupying the whole width of the fore part of the 

 caput ; the four central ones are as nearly as possible of equal size, and form a square whose 

 posterior side is shorter than the rest ; those of the hind-central pair are on largish, dark, 

 reddish-brown spots, and are separated from each other by an eye's diameter ; those of the 

 fore-central pair ai'e seated on a slight prominence, and are directed away from each other ; 

 the interval between them being nearly two diameters. Those of each lateral pair are seated 

 obliquely and contiguously on a dark tubercle. 



The legs of the third and fourth pairs (one only of each being all that remained in the 

 example examined) are short, strong, of a pale-yellow colour, annulated with dark yellow- 

 brown, and furnished with hairs, bristles, and a few spines. 



The palpi are short, and similar to the legs in colour and armature. 



The/ 'alces are moderate in length and strength, roundly prominent at their base in 

 front, perpendicular, and of a pale-yellow colour. 



The maxilla are of normal form ; their colour is brown, with a pale-yellowish border all 

 round their extremity. 



The labium is of a darker brown than the maxillae, with a pale-yellowish apex. 



The sternum is yellowish, suffused with dark brown ; its form is heart-shaped, with the 

 fore extremity broadly truncated and hollow. 



The abdomen is large, oval, broadest in front, the middle of the fore margin of which is 

 a little sub-angularly prominent ; it projects considerably over the base of the cephalothorax, 

 and is of a yellowish-brown colour mottled obscurely with whitish ; the fore extremity of 

 the upper side has a sub-angular, marginal, white stripe. Beginning at some little distance 

 behind this is a large deep brown patch-like area, broad in front, and narrowing gradually, to 

 about half its front width, near the spinners. This patch is bordered by a fine, deeper-brown 

 sinuous line, outside of which is a distinct white border. On the sides, the white mottlings 

 are gathered into broadish, though rather indistinct, oblique stripes ; the under side is deep 

 brown, bordered on each side with three large white spots, the middle one of which is the 

 largest. The epigyne is rather short, of a pale-yellowish hue, tapering, blunt-pointed, and 

 directed backwards. 



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



64. EPEIRA CARNIFEX, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 3J lines. 



The cephalothorax is tolerably strongly constricted on the lateral margins at the caput, 

 which is also rather produced forwards ; its colour is dull yellow, rather thickly clothed with 

 a coarse greyish pubescence ; and the whole of the upper side of the caput is of a deep brown, 

 the same colour being prolonged backwards to the thoracic junction. The height of the 

 clypeus is rather less than the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. 



The eyes are in the usual four pairs, occupying the whole width of the fore-part of the 

 caput ; the four central eyes form apparently, as nearly as can be, a square ; the hind-central 

 pair are seated on strong black spots, on a small tubercular prominence, and they are the 

 largest of the eight, considerably larger than those of the fore- central pair, and separated 

 by rather more than a diameter's interval. 



