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SECOND TlEKAND MISSION. 



The falces are short, strong, subconical, perpendicular, furnished with a few strong 

 bristles ; they are of a whitish colour, excepting at the base on the upper side, where they are 

 yellow-brown. 



The maxilla, labium, and sternum are of normal form, and their colour is nearly white ; 

 the sternum spotted thinly with small, deep reddish-brown points. 



The abdomen is oval, of a rather flatfish form, and not much broader at any part than 

 it is before and behind, at both which points it is rounded. The sides of the upper part are 

 of the same colour as the sides of the cephalothorax ; the normal longitudinal, median, 

 dentated band is of a paler hue, bordered with white, and marked with a few red-brown points ; 

 the sides are whitish, rugu lose, and thinly spotted with red-brown; the outer side is also 

 similarly coloured. 



Hab. Sind Valley, between August the 5th and 13th, 1873. 



Genus-MONASTES, Luc. 

 86. MOHASTES DEJECTUS, Sp. n. 



Adult female : length nearly 2| lines. 



The cephalothorax of this spider is nearly round, excepting the clypeus, which is broad, 

 square at the fore extremity, and projecting; the hinder extremity also is rai her flattened ; 

 the sides are sloping, and the upper surface flattish. It is of a reddish yellow-brown colour, 

 mottled and marked with yellowish-white, showing a broad, pale, longitudinal, median band 

 of the latter hue (including the eyes and clypeus), with two short, yellow- white streaks and 

 red-brown spots, on either side, near its hinder extremity, indicating some of the usual con- 

 verging furrows. On each side of the median band (also near the eyes) is another short, 

 yellow- white longitudinal streak, terminating posteriorly in a red-brown spot ; the lower part 

 of the sides is more mottled with white than the rest. A few strongish bristles are dispersed 

 over the cephalothorax, but most of them had apparently been broken off. 



The eyes are in two concentric, curved, rather widely-separated rows ; the convexity of 

 the curve is directed forwards, and the front row is much the shorter. The fore-central pair 

 are the smallest of the eight, and the fore-laterals slightly the largest, being rather larger than 

 the hind-laterals. The eyes of the front row are separated by nearly equal intervals, that 

 between the central pair being perhaps rather greater than that between each and the lateral 

 on its side. The four central eyes form a quadrangular figure whose fore side is considerably 

 the shortest, and whose longitudinal diameter is much greater than its widest transverse dia- 

 meter ; the interval between the hind-centrals is less than that between each and the hind- 

 lateral on its side. The four lateral eyes are seated on large, roundish, tubercular eminences ; 

 and the height of the clypeus equals half that of the facial space. 



The legs are slender : those of the first and second pairs are long, and very nearly equal 

 in length ; the second, if anything, slightly surpass the first ; those of the third and fourth 

 pairs are short, and scarcely differ in length ; the third, if anything, being slightly the longer ; 

 they are of a pale brownish-yellow colour, mottled, chiefly beneath, with white, and spotted 

 thinly with small red-brown tubercles, each of which is surmounted by a short slender 

 spine. 



The palpi of the male are short, of a dull-yellow colour, slightly mottled with white ; the 

 radial joint is shorter than the cubital, and both have some bristles springing from dark red- 



