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This spider is allied to Synema (Dicea, Thor.) globosa. 



Its fore-lateral eyes, however, are larger in proportion to the fore-centrals than in that 

 species, and S. exculta thus diverges still more widely from the spiders of the genus Dicea. 

 Hab. Murree, between June llth and July 14th, 1873. 



Genus DIJEA, Thor. 

 75. Dl^2A SPINOSTJLA, sp. n. 



Adult male : length rather less than 1J lines. 



The cephalothorax is as broad as, if not a little broader than, it is long, the caput short, 

 broadly truncate in front, and constricted laterally at the lower margins ; it is of a bright 

 reddish orange-yellow colour, with a largish patch of a paler hue on the occiput ; the surface 

 is covered thinly with strong, prominent, dark-coloured spine-like bristles, and the margins 

 are armed with minute but distinct teeth. 



The eyes are small and seated on whitish tubercles, the fore-laterals being rather the 

 largest ; they are in two transverse, concentric, curved rows, the curve directed forward ; and 

 they occupy the whole width of the fore extremity of the caput, the front row being the 

 shorter : the eyes of the hinder row are equidistant from each other, but those of the fore- 

 central pair are nearer to each other than each is to the fore-lateral eye on its side. The 

 tubercles on which the eyes of each lateral pair are placed are large and round, the interval 

 between the eyes themselves being equal to that between the fore and hind-central pairs. 

 The four central eyes form a quadrangular figure whose posterior side is the longest and 

 anterior the shortest. The height of the clypeus is considerably less than half that of the 

 facial space. 



The legs are exceedingly slender ; those of the first and second pairs are very long, and 

 appear scarcely to differ in length ; these two pairs are of rather a paler duller colour than 

 the cephalothorax, the metatarsi, and the two-thirds of the tibiae next to them, being of a 

 deep reddish chocolate-brown ; those of the third and fourth pairs are yellow, the third pairs 

 being rather the shorter ; excepting two or three small spines on the femora of the first and 

 second pairs, the armature of the legs consists of hairs and slender bristles only. 



The palpi are short and not strong; the radial joint is rather shorter than the cubital, 

 and has a small, short, tapering, pointed apophysis at its outer extremity, with several longish 

 bristles on its upper side : the digital joint is small and of a rather narrow, oval form (its 

 length being about equal to that of the radial and cubital joints together), and it is a little 

 suffused with brown. The palpal organs are very simple and not prominent. 



The falces are short, but moderately strong, perpendicular, subconical, and similar in 

 colour to the cephalothorax. 



The maxilla, labium, and sternum, are yellow. 



The abdomen is rather narrow, oval, and of a somewhat flattened form ; its colour on the 

 upper side, which is of a somewhat coriaceous nature, is a slightly brownish yellow, and is 

 covered, like the cephalothorax, with erect, strong, tapering, spine-like, dark bristles ; and 

 there are five impressed yellow-brown spots on the fore half of the upper side, enclosing an 

 acute angle directed forwards. The sides, and the hinder extremity of the upper side, are 

 rugulose, and, with the under part, are of a pale straw-yellow colour. 



Hab. Murree, between June llth and July 14th, 1873. 



