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and metatarsi of the first and second pairs ; those on the metatarsi are much the strongest 

 and most numerous. The femora of the first pair have three smaller erect spines in a 

 longitudinal line on the upper side. 



The palvi are short, and similar to the legs in colour and armature. 



The f alces are strong, moderately long, subconical, and a little projecting forwards ; 

 they are of a reddish yellow-brown colovir, marked and suffused with whitish-yellow, and 

 furnished with bristles in front. 



The maxillae and labium are normal in form, and similar in colour to the legs. 



The sternum is oval, blunt-pointed behind, and broadly truncated in front ; it is of a pale 

 whitish-yellow colour, thinly clothed with slender, erect, bristly hairs. 



The abdomen is oval, rounded in front and obtusely pointed behind, tolerably convex 

 above, and thinly clothed with hairs. The upper side is of a whitish-yellow or dull cream- 

 colour, thickly speckled with minute red-brown specks ; the sides are rugulose, and pale 

 yellow-brown ; the rugulosities yellow-white, minutely spotted with red-brown ; the under side 

 is pale whitish-yellow, like the sternum. The ordinary longitudinal, dentated band on the 

 abdomen is imperoeptible ; probably, however, some variety exists in this respect in different 

 examples. 



Hab. Yarkand to Bursi, between May 28th and June 17th, 1874. 



85. XTSTICTJS MUNDULTJS, sp. n. 



Immature male : length just over 2 lines. 



The cephalothorax is of ordinary form, and has a whitish, narrow marginal border. The 

 sides are of a dull reddish yellow-brown colour, irregularly but distinctly marked with short 

 whitish streaks and markings, leaving a broad, median, longitudinal, nearly white band 

 slightly narrowest at its hinder extremity ; the fore part of this band contains the normal spade- 

 shaped marking, which is of a dull pale-brownish hue, rather peculiar in form, and marked 

 with some red-brown lines and markings ; its posterior extremity being also continued, by a 

 red-brown line, to the thoracic indentation. 



The eyes are in the normal position ; the four central eyes form very nearly a square, the 

 longitudinal being slightly greater than the transverse diameter, and the fore side slightly 

 shorter than the hinder one ; the interval between those of the hind-central pair is distinctly 

 less than that between each and the hind-lateral eye on its side, and the interval between 

 those of each lateral pair is equal to that between the fore- and hind-central pairs. The 

 height of the clypeus is scarcely more than one- third of that of the facial space, 



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

 those of the first, and the third pair are a little the shortest. They are of a yellowish colour, 

 more or less suffused and striped longitudinally with white, especially on the femora of the 

 first and second pairs, which are also prettily spotted with reddish yellow-brown. The other 

 legs are also spotted, though more faintly ; the tarsi and metatarsi of all being of an almost 

 unmarked pale-yellow colour. The tibise and metatarsi of the first and second pairs are 

 armed with a few longish, not very strong, spines, in two parallel longitudinal rows on the 

 under sides. 



The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, 



