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The legs are moderately long, but not very strong, and their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3. 

 Their colour is dull brownish-yellow, annulated with darker reddish yellow-brown, and they 

 are furnished with hairs, bristles, and strongish, but short, spines. 



The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, moderately long and slender. 



The f alces are moderately strong, tolerably long, arched in profile, perpendicular, of a 

 deep-brown colour, but pale- yellowish at the base, and furnished with bristles in front. 



The maxillce are of normal form, and of a deep-brown colour, pale-yellowish on the 

 margin, at their extremity. The labiwn also is similar in colour, with a pale margin at the 

 apex. 



The sternum is heart-shaped and of a deep-brown colour. 



The abdomen is very large, and in its general form and appearance reminds one of that of 

 Cyrtopliora opuntice, Duf. Its shoulders have each a short, somewhat conical prominence 

 also. It projects considerably over the base of the cephalo thorax ; and when looked at in 

 profile, the hinder extremity, which projects a little over the spinners, is nearly as high as 

 the fore-extremity. The sides are steep and sloping inwards, and the upper side rather flat. 

 The upper side is of a dull cream- white colour marked, clouded, and mottled with brown ; the 

 lateral margins of the white area are very strongly dentated, and along the middle of it are two 

 very distinctly defined black dentated lines, which beginning near its fore extremity, converge 

 towards each other (but do not meet) at the hinder extremity, where they are sometimes 

 joined by a transverse blackish line. Along the middle of the fore part of the space included 

 by these black dentated lines, which space is frequently darker or more suffused with brown 

 than the atea outside it, is a somewhat oblong deep brown, marking with two angular points 

 on each side of it and a row of white spots along its middle. The fore extremity of the 

 upper side has two prominent portions of the white area near the middle ; these are generally 

 curved, and enclose a more or less well-defined brown patch bearing a white spot in the 

 centre, and in front of this, outside the brown patch, is another larger white spot ; the under 

 side is of deep sooty-brown colour, of a quadrangular form, margined by a distinct, broad, 

 yellowish-white border, before and on its sides, each of the posterior ends of the border being 

 continued on either side of the spinners by two well-defined white blotches, the anterior one 

 of which is much larger than the other ; from the middle of the hinder extremity, on the 

 upper side, to the spinners there is generally a longitudinal central yellowish- white stripe ; the 

 sides are brown, thickly mottled with dull whitish-yellow. The genital aperture is simple in 

 form, and somewhat of a transverse, kidney shape, placed rather behind a slightly prominent 

 process from in front of which issues a moderately long, slender, epigyne, which curves back- 

 wards and has its extremity slightly sinuous. There is considerable variety in the markings 

 of the upper side of the abdomen in this spider according as the brown mottlings are more or 

 less diffused, or else well defined. 



Hob. Murree, June llth to July 24th, 1873. 



65. EPEIRA ? GIBBERA, sp. n. 



Adult female: length 2| lines. 



Probably this spider will be found some day, on comparison with some other closely 

 allied exotic species, to be of a different genus from " Epeira" (sensustricto), in which event, 

 I think, a new genus must be formed for its reception. At present I describe it as an 

 aberrant and doubtful form of Epeira. 



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