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such considerable variety in the extent and nature of the abdominal markings, as is 

 found be to in some others of this group. 



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



11. DlJEA. STTFFLAVA, Sp. n. 



Adult male : length rather more than 2| lines. 



The cephalothorax is round behind, and constricted laterally at the caput ; its colour 

 is yellow, and the upper surface of the caput has a few strong, blackish, prominent bristles. 

 The height of the clypeus is less than half that of the facial space. 



The eyes are seated on round tubercles, in two curved transverse rows, in the form of a 

 crescent ; the curves of the rows are directed forwards, and the front row is the shorter and 

 more strongly curved. The fore-lateral eyes are slightly the largest, and are nearer to the 

 hind-laterals than the fore-central pair are to the hind-central ; each is also nearer to the fore- 

 central eye on its side than the fore-centrals are to each other ; the hind-centrals are slightly 

 nearer to each other than each is to the hind-lateral on its side ; the four central eyes describe 

 very nearly a square, its fore side being slightly shorter than its hinder one, and its longi- 

 tudinal very slightly longer than its transverse diameter. 



The legs of the first and second pairs are long and tolerably strong ; they are similar in 

 colour to the cephalothorax, and, with those of the third and fourth pairs, are furnished 

 pretty freely with spines, besides hairs and bristles. The difference in length between the 

 first and second pairs is very slight ; if anything, those of the first pair are a little the longer : 

 the third and fourth pairs are short, the fourth slightly the longer ; they are rather paler 

 than those of the first and second pairs. 



The palpi are short and of a pale yellow colour. The cubital and radial joints are short, 

 but about equal in length ; the former has a long, strong, tapering, curved bristle at the 

 middle of its fore extremity on the upper side, and the latter has two or three upon it, but less 

 strong than that on the cubital joint. The radial joint also has its fore extremity on the 

 outer side, produced into a not very large, slightly tapering, sharp-pointed apophysis, the 

 point being of a corneous claw-like nature, and directed slightly outwards and downwards. 

 There is also another apophysis, at the extremity, underneath this joint, stronger, curved, and 

 obtuse at the extremity ; the digital joint is tolerably long, equal in length to the radial and 

 cubital joints together, oval, and pointed at its anterior extremity; the palpal organs are small, 

 simple, and apparently without any marked spines or processes. 



The f aloes are short, strong, straight, perpendicular, not greatly broader at their base in 

 front than at their extremity, and their colour is similar to that of the legs. The maxillae 

 and labium are of normal form ; the former are rather paler in colour than the legs, the latter 

 is yellow-brown. 



The abdomen is rather large, of an elongate-oval form, decreasing gradually in breadth 

 from its fore to its hinder extremity ; its convexity on the upper side is not great, but toler- 

 ably uniform. It is of a pale dull yellow-brown above, and pale dull straw-yellow on the 

 sides and underneath ; the upper side is margined by a belt of whitish cretaceous spots, on 

 the inner side of which is an irregular row of dark red-brown spots which increase in size 

 towards the hinder extremity, and evidently represent the ends of a series of broken trans- 



