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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



The sternum is heart-shaped and yellow. 



The abdomen is oval, moderately convex above, though of a somewhat flattened form on 

 the upper side ; it is broadest towards the hinder extremity, which is obtuse-pointed, and 

 its fore extremity is roundly truncated. The upper part and sides are of a dull yellowish 

 hue, thickly covered with somewhat scale-like spots of a silvery whitish colour. Five im- 

 pressed spots form a triangle on the fore half, whose apex is directed forwards. The apical spot 

 is surrounded with dull reddish yellow-brown ; and immediately following the last impressed 

 spot on each side is a row of three or four reddish yellow-brown blotches, decreasing in 

 size as they run backwards, the two rows of blotches converging to the spinners ; these 

 last are short and yellow-brown in colour ; the superior and inferior pairs are of equal length, 

 but the latter are the strongest ; and at the extremity of the abdomen on each side of the 

 spinners is an oblong patch of red- brown. 



The female is altogether lighter coloured than the male ; the abdomen has no markings, 

 excepting the normal five impressed spots on the upper side, and the oblong patch (which, 

 however, is very indistinct) on each side of the spinners ; the legs also are of a uniform lape 

 yellow, and those of the third and fourth pairs are destitute of spines, or at any rate they are 

 no stronger than an ordinary bristle. 



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



Genus XYSTICU8, C. L. Koch. 



80. XTSTICTJS CRISTATTJS. 



Xysticus cristatus, Clerck (sub Araneus), ST. Spindl., p. 136, pi. 6, tab. 6. 



Sab. Examples of a spider, which I believe to be of this species, were contained in a 

 portion of the collection labelled ' Eoad across the Pamir from Sirikol to Panja and back, 

 April 22nd to May 7th, 1874 ; ' and ' Yarkand and neighbourhood, November 1873 '. 



81. XYSTICUS PINI, Hahn. 



Sab. Young examples of this spider were contained in a part of the collection from the 

 Sind Valley, 5th to 13th August 1873, and Hills between Sirkol and Aktalla, 8th to 13th 

 May 1874. 



82. XYSTICTJS MACTJLOSUS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 2 lines. 



In form and structure this spider closely resembles Xysticus audax, Bl. ; its colours are 

 a speckled mixture (both above and below) of white, yellow-white, yellow-brown, dark- 

 brown, and red-brown. 



The sides of the cephalothorax are dark -brown, marbled and marked with pale yellow- 

 brown ; the upper part, consisting of a broad longitudinal band, is yellow- white, suffused 

 with pale yellow-brown forwards, and spotted all over with small spots of a darker hue, two 

 rather distinct parallel lines of the darker yellow-brown running close together from between 

 the hind-central pair of eyes to the occiput. The lower margin of the clypeus has a row of 

 strong prominent bristles directed forwards. 



