ARANEIDEA. 55 



Family G ASTER A CANTHTDES. 



Genus CYRTARACHNE, Thor. 



68. CYRTARACHNE PALLIDA, sp. n. 



Immature female : length 1^ inch. 



The whole of the fore part of this spider is of a pale straw-yellow colour : the normal 

 > grooves and indentations on the cephalothorax, as well as the occipital region, are suffused 

 with whitish. The cephalothorax is short, broad behind, and but very slightly constricted 

 laterally at the caput, the fore part of which is rather broad also. The occiput has some 

 strong, erect bristles, and the height of the clypeus is equal to the diameter of one of the 

 fore-central eyes. The eyes are in the ordinary position : they occupy the whole width of 

 the fore part of the caput, and are of a pale dull amber colour ; those of the hind-central pair 

 are the largest of the eight, and are divided by an interval equal to an eye's diameter ; those 

 of the fore-central pair are divided by more than a diameter, and form a line very slightly 

 shorter than that which is formed by the hind-central pair, the four central eyes thus form- 

 ing very nearly a square. 



The legs are rather short and slender, and are furnished with hairs and fine bristles only; 

 their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3. 



The palpi are short and slender. 



Thefalces are not very long, strong, straight, perpendicular. The maxilla, labiitm, and 

 sternum are of normal form, and similar to the legs in colour. 



The abdomen is large, much the broadest across the middle, of a rather flattened form, 

 and projects considerably over the base of the cephalothorax; it is of dull cretaceous-whitish 

 hue with a longitudinal, median, dusky-brown line, which has some fine, oblique, venose lines 

 of a similar colour issuing from its hinder part ; and on either side of the fore part is a 

 large, oblique, oblong, dull-brownish patch ; the under side is sooty blackish. 



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



Family UL OB RIDES. 



Genus ULOBOR US, Walck. 



69. ULOBORUS ALBESCENS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 2J lines. 



The cephalothorax is short, broad, nearly round behind, and gibbose on the thorax, on 

 either side of the thoracic indentation : the caput, which is rather broad in front, is also 

 constricted laterally. The colour is yellow-brown, paler on the margins along the medial 

 line and on the outer side of the gibbous portion of the thorax. 



The eyes are small, seated on black spots, and do not differ greatly in size ; they are 

 placed in two transverse curved rows, occupying the whole width of the fore part of the 

 caput ; the convexity of the curve of the hinder row is directed forwards, while that of the 

 front row is directed backwards ; the interval between the eyes of each lateral pair is thus 

 greater than that between the fore and hind-central pairs. The interval between the eyes 



