52 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



The cephalothorax is very short and broad, and rises gradually from the hinder extremity 

 to the fore part of the caput ; though the real convexity of the whole does not vary much in 

 one part or another, since the basal line rises forwards with the general rise of the caput; and 

 the middle of the fore part of the caput has a rather prominently pointed appearance, without 

 the lateral prominences (on which the lateral pairs of eyes are placed) usual in Epeira ; in 

 fact, there is an approach in the form of this part to some species of Pollys. The colour of 

 the cephalothorax is yellow-brown, and it is clothed with a greyish pubescence. 



The eyes are placed as in Epeira generally. Those of the hind-central pair are consider- 

 ably larger than the fore-centrals ; the interval between them is nearly about one and half 

 diameters ; they form a longer line than the fore-central pair, and together with them they 

 form a rectangle whose greatest transverse diameter is longer than its longitudinal one. 

 Between the eyes of the fore-central pair are two longish, divergent, pale-grey, bent bristles 

 directed forwards and downwards. The eyes of each lateral pair are on slight tubercles, placed 

 obliquely, and contiguous to each other ; they are very widely removed from the four central 

 ones, and, owing to the oblique, sloping character of the sides of the caput, are placed some 

 way back, not far (when looked at sideways) above the middle of the base of the falces. 



The legs are short, moderately strong, their relative length being 1, 2, 4, 3 ; they are of 

 a yellow-brown colour, with faint traces of darker annulation ; and are furnished with hairs 

 and slender bristles, but no spines. 



The palpi are short, slender, and nearly similar in colour to the legs, the digital joints 

 terminating with a curved, toothed claw. 



The falces are moderately long, strong, and similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 



The maxillce and labium are like those of Epeira : they are of a dark yellow-brown 

 colour ; the extremities of the former and the apex of the latter, pale dull whitish. 



The sternum is short, heart-shaped, the fore extremity very broad and truncated ; its 

 colour is deep yellowish-brown, and it is clothed with a prominent grey pubescence. 



The abdomen is very large, and almost conceals the cephalothorax ; it is of a sub-conical 

 form, the upper side towards the hinder extremity being produced gradually backwards and 

 upwards into a considerable hump, whose termination is a large round deep-brown boss. The 

 distance from this boss to the spinners is rather less than to the fore extremity on the upper 

 side. Its colour is a dull-brown, mottled thickly above and on the sides with dull yellowish- 

 white, leaving a largish, irregularly-defined brown patch near the middle of either side of the 

 upper part. The middle of the upper part has four distinct, impressed, deep black-brown 

 spots in a quadrangular figure, whose posterior side is much longer than its anterior, and its 

 shortest transverse diameter longer than its longitudinal one. A little way from, and on each 

 side of, the inferior spinners is a white spot, in front of which is another, or rather a some- 

 what roundish, white patch. The genital aperture is of a simple transverse oval form, covered 

 by the epigyne, which is very prominent, directed backwards, curved, flattish, and rather 

 tapering to a broad, rounded point. 



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



Genua CHORIZOOPES, Cambr. 



66. CHORIZOOPES STOLICZK^:, sp. n. 



Adult female : length rather over 2^ lines. 



The cephalothorax is short, broadish, and massive in front ; the caput elevated, especially 



