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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



This is in several respects a remarkable spider and aberrant from the generic type, both 

 in the form of the abdomen, the height of the clypeus, and the small comparative size of the 

 ocular area. I hesitate, however, at present, to form a new genus for it, though it will pro- 

 bably be necessary at some future time to do so. 



Hob. Murree to Sind Valley, between July 14th and August 5th, 1873. 



Genus STNEMA, Simon. 



74. SYNEMA EXCTJLTA, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 2 lines. 



The cephalothorax is short and broad ; the lateral constrictions on the margin of the 

 caput are slight, and the caput is broadly truncated before. The height of the clypeus is 

 rather less than half that of the facial space. It is of a dull yellow-brown colour; the clypeus, 

 as well as the ocular area and a broad longitudinal band on each side of the upper part, being 

 of a deep reddish-brown colour ; that of the two bands being the darkest ; the occiput is 

 marked with a somewhat curvilinear, angular, pale-yellowish marking, the angle of which is 

 directed backwards. The sides and hinder slope of the cephalothorax are steep, and its 

 surface is thinly covered with long, curved, prominent, rather tapering bristles. 



The eyes are on tubercles, in two transverse curved rows occupying the whole width of 

 the broad caput ; the hinder row being the longer, and, if anything, slightly the more strongly 

 curved ; thus, the eyes of each lateral pair are rather further from each other than the fore- 

 central pair is from the hind-central one. The eyes of each row respectively are equi- 

 distant from each other; though, if anything, the fore-centrals may be very slightly further from 

 each other than each is from the fore-lateral on its side. The fore-laterals are the largest of the 

 eight and considerably larger than the fore- centrals. The fore-central eyes form a square 

 whose posterior side is longer than the other three. 



The legs of the first and second pairs are moderately long and slender, the second pair 

 being perhaps slightly the longest ; they are of a yellow-brown colour, the femora much the 

 darkest ; the third and fourth pairs are much shorter, of a pale-yellowish colour, and the 

 third pair is slightly the shortest. All are furnished with hairs, slender bristles, and spines. 



The palpi are short, slender, and similar in colour to the third and fourth pairs of legs. 



Ihefalces are short, strong, sub-conical, slightly projecting forwards, and of a dull reddish 

 yellow-brown colour. 



The maxillae and labium are of normal form, and of a dull brownish-yellow colour. 



The sternum, is heart-shaped and yellow. 



The abdomen is short, considerably convex above, and projects entirely over the hinder 

 slope of the cephalothorax ; it is much broadest, and well rounded , towards the hinder extremity, 

 and is of a dull yellow-brownish colour ; the fore part of the upper side has a few deep red- 

 brown points, and a diffused marginal border of white cretaceous spots; the hinder part is 

 much covered with similar white spots arranged in three not very well defined transverse 

 diffused, curved bars, the two intervals between the first three being of a deep red-brown colour; 

 there are also some markings of the same dark, red-brown hue just above the spinners ; the 

 sides are rugulose, marked with indistinct reddish-brown streaks following the somewhat 

 oblique course of the rugulosities. The genital opening is simple, and consists of two small, 

 round, reddish-brown apertures in a transverse line. 



