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verse angular bars ; the surface is also thinly covered with a few prominent dark-coloured 

 bristles, and the spinners are short and of a yellow-brown colour. 

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





78. DlJEA SUSPICIOSA, sp. n. 



Adult male : length nearly 2| lines. 



This spider is very nearly allied to Dicea dorsata, Fabr. (Thomisus floricolens, Blackw.), 

 but may be distinguished by its generally lighter hue and less distinct markings, as well as 

 by a quite different structure of the palpi and palpal organs. 



The cephalothorax is yellow ; the sides, the fore part of the upper side of the caput, and 

 the normal indentations are strongly suffused with yellow -brown ; and there are a few strong- 

 ish bristles on upper margins of the caput. The ocular region has none of the deep rusty 

 red-brown suffusion characteristic of Dicea dorsata. The height of the clypeus is less than 

 half of that of the facial space. 



The eyes are seated on round, whitish tubercles, in two nearly concentric curved rows ; 

 the f-ront row being a little the more strongly curved, and thus the eyes of each lateral pair 

 are brought rather nearer together than the fore- and hind-central pairs are to each other. 

 The fore-laterals are largest of the eight, and seated on the strongest tubercles ; the interval 

 between those of the hind-central pair is rather less than that between each and the hind- 

 lateral on the same side ; and the interval between the fore-centrals is very slightly, if any- 

 thing, greater than that between each and the fore-lateral on its side. The four central eyes 

 form a square whose anterior side is the shortest. 



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

 slender, and of a yellow colour, suffused with reddish yellow-brown at the fore extremity of 

 the femora and genua, and at both extremities of thetibise, but the colouring scarcely amounts 

 to annulation ; and the under sides of the femora are speckled with red-brown ; those of the 

 third and fourth pairs are much shorter than the others ; the third pair rather the shorter, and 

 paler in colour tban the rest ; all are furnished with hairs and spines. 



The palpi are short, and pale yellow ; the digital joints suffused with brown. The radial 

 joint is shorter than the cubital, and has its outer side, at the fore extremity, produced into 

 a tolerably strong and long, tapering, sharp-pointed apophysis, with a distinct angular point 

 about the middle underneath. In Dicea dorsata this point is replaced by a larger and rounded 

 protuberance close at the end of the apophysis, which gives it a more bifid form. The 

 digital joint is of tolerable size, broad-oval behind, and with a slightly constricted, narrow 

 extremity, and the outer margin near the base is somewhat sub-angularly prominent ; the 

 palpal organs are simple and encircled by a black filiform spine. The radial and cubital 

 joints are furnished with two or three strong tapering bristles, and the digital joint is also 

 hairy and bristly. This joint is smaller in Diana dorsata, and the palpal organs in that 

 species have no encircling black spine. 



The falces are short, strong, straight, sub-conical, perpendicular, and similar in colour 

 to the cephalothorax. 



The maxilla , labium, and sternum are of normal form, and of a pale-yellow colour. 

 The abdomen is oval, of a rather flattened form ; its upper side is of a dull pale-yellow- 

 ish hue, thinly pencilled with whitish, and deep brownish, rusty-red spots : the sides of the 



