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The legs of the first and second pairs are rather strong and moderately long, those of 

 the first pair a little the longer; they are distinctly spotted and blotched with yellow-brown, 

 dark-brown, and white on a pale-yellowish ground, the outer sides of the femoral and tibial 

 joints being marked, rather distinctly, with a longitudinal white stripe, on each side of 

 which is a dark-brown one; the inner sides of the tibial and me tatarsal joints are armed 

 with two longitudinal rows of strong spines springing from tubercular eminences. The legs 

 of the third and fourth pairs are much shorter than the rest, and marked with similar colours, 

 but presenting a more annulated appearance. 



The palpi are short, pale-yellow, roughly annulated with deep-brown, and armed with 

 bristles and short spines. 



The falces are short, tolerably strong, sub-conical, perpendicular, marbled with pale 

 yellow-brown, white, and deep brown, and furnished with some strong prominent black 

 bristles. 



The maxillae and Idbium are dark dull brown ; and the sternum is yellowish- white, dis- 

 tinctly speckled with small, deep black-brown points. 



The abdomen is oval, broadest behind, where it is rounded, the fore extremity being 

 rather truncate, and projecting over the whole hinder slope of the cephalothorax. The upper 

 side is flattish, of a dull pale yellow- brown colour, thickly and minutely speckled with darker 

 yellow-brown and whitish, with a few deep reddish-brown spots round the margins, and some 

 smaller ones of the same colour thinly dispersed over the whole ; the sides are rugulose and 

 whitish, speckled thinly with yellow-brown and deep red-brown, the under side being dull 

 yellow-brown, thickly and minutely speckled with small white and red-brown points. 



This spider is nearly allied to Xysticus grcecus, C. L. Koch, from which, as also from 

 another nearly allied Egyptian species, X, promiscuus, Cambr., it is certainly distinct ; from 

 the latter it may at once be distinguished by the almost total absence of the characteristic 

 dentated pattern on the upper side of the abdomen. This is quite distinct in X. promiscuus, 

 while in the present spider it can scarcely be traced excepting by a very slightly paler tone 

 in the general hue. 



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



83. XYSTICUS SETIGEB, sp. n. 



Adult female : length nearly 3 lines. 



The whole of the fore part of this spicier is of a reddish, orange-yellow-brown colour. The 

 cephalothorax is of ordinary form, and has two longitudinal, darker yellow red-brown bands 

 running backwards, one from each hind-lateral eye, the fore part of the median band being 

 rather darker than the rest ; and it is covered thinly with long, strong, dark, prominent 

 bristles, directed a little forwards. 



The eyes are on small yellowish tubercles, and differ a little from the typical position of 

 Xysticus. The fore-laterals being placed farther back, give a stronger curve to the front 

 row, and bring the eyes of each lateral pair nearer together ; the interval between them in 

 the present spider being distinctly less than that between the fore and hind-central pairs, 

 while in the typical Xyticus it is equal, if not greater. The position of the eyes is thus 

 more like that of Philodromus. The four central eyes form very nearly a square, whose 

 fore side is rather longer than the hinder one, and its sides slightly longer than its fore side. 

 The height of the clypeus is nearly equal to half that of the facial space. 



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