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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



The legs are tolerably long and strong; those of the first pair are slightly longer than 

 those of the second ; these latter are thinly speckled with red-brown, and a little clouded, on 

 the femora of the first pair, with a darker hue than that of the ground-colour. They are 

 furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines ; the last form two longitudinal parallel rows 

 beneath the tibiae (6 6) and metatarsi (5 5), and issue from tubercular eminences; the 

 legs of the fourth pair are distinctly longer than those of the third. Each tarsus has a small 

 claw-tuft beneath the two terminal claws. 



The palpi are short, not very strong, and are furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines. 



The j alces are short, strong, sub-conical, perpendicular, and furnished with strong pro- 

 minent bristles in front. 



The sternum is oval-pointed behind, truncated in a hollow line in front, and of a pale 

 orange-yellow colour, destitute of bristles and (apparently) of hairs also. 



The abdomen is broadest towards its hinder extremity, which is obtusely pointed, the 

 fore extremity being truncated ; it is of a deep yellow-brown on the upper side, mottled with 

 reddish yellow-brown along the middle, indistinctly indicating the normal dentatcd band, and 

 some transverse, slightly curved line towards the hinder part ; the upper side is also covered 

 with long, strong, slightly curved, nearly erect blackish bristles : the sides are rugulose, paler 

 than the upper part, slightly suffused with white, and thinly speckled with few dark black- 

 brown points ; the under side is yellow-brown, and has a large quadrate, central area thickly 

 mottled with small, whitish-yellow spots. 



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



84. XYSTICTJS BREVICEPS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 3 lines. 



The cephalothorax is short, its breadth at least equalling its length ; the caput, con- 

 stricted laterally, is broad and particularly short ; when looked at in profile, the hinder slope 

 is very abrupt, and the depth of the cephalothorax is greatest there, sloping, in a slight curve, 

 very gradually thence to the eyes. The colour is pale-yellow, irregularly streaked and 

 marked with whitish-yellow ; it is margined laterally with a distinct whitish, narrow border, 

 and a broad, reddish yellow-brown, longitudinal band occupies the upper part of each side ; 

 the normal spade-shaped marking on the upper side is indicated by a reddish-yellow suffusion, 

 and a posterior limit, formed by a curvi-angular, whitish-yellow distinct stripe. The 

 space enclosed by this stripe is also marked with whitish-yellow stria?, bearing short 

 erect bristles ; some stronger bristles occur in the ocular region, and on the lower margin of 

 the clypeus, which is less in height than half that of the facial space. 



The eyes of each lateral pair are perceptibly nearer together than the fore- and hind- 

 central pairs are to each other, owing to the fore-lateral eyes (which are the largest of the 

 eight) being placed farther back than usual, giving the front row a stronger curve than that 

 of the hinder one. The four central eyes form very nearly a square, the longitudinal being 

 rather less than the transverse diameter. 



The legs are rather short, and strong : those of the first and second pairs scarcely differ 

 in length, those of the third pair being distinctly shorter than those of the fourth. They are 

 of the same colour as the cephalothorax, striped with whitish-yellow, and furnished with 

 hairs, bristles, and spines ; the last are, principally, in two parallel rows beneath the tibiee 



