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brown spots ; also, besides some lesser projections on. the under side, the radial joint has, at 

 the extremity of the outer side, a rather long tapering one, with a curved, obtusely-pointed 

 dark-brown termination; the digital joint is of moderate size and almost wholly white, of an 

 oval form, with its fore extremity pointed and rather elongated : the palpal organs are not 

 prominent, but of simple form, with a curved, sharp-pointed, dark red-brown spiny process 

 at their fore extremity. 



Thefalces are moderately long, but not very strong; they are of a subconical form, and 

 project in a continuous line with the clypeus ; their colour is a pale yellow-brown, mottled 

 (chiefly at their fore extremity) with white. 



The maxillae and labiuni are of normal form, and of a pale dull-yellowish colour. 



The sternum is oval, pointed behind, of a pale whitish-yellow colour, sprinkled with dull 

 yellow-brown points. 



The abdomen is of a somewhat pentagonal form, broadest and subangular at the hinder 

 part ; the hinder extremity is blunt-pointed below, but has a slightly angular prominence at 

 the middle of its upper part ; it is of a dull brownish-yellow colour, mottled, suffused, and 

 marked with white, chiefly along the middle line of the upper side, and the lower part of 

 the sides ; the upper side is also thinly and symmetrically sprinkled with small, red-brown, 

 tubercular spots, each of which bears a strongish, slightly curved bristle, directed backwards. 



Hab. Murree to Sind Valley, between July 14th and August 5th, 1873. 



Genus SAROTES, Sund. 



87. SAROTES REGIUS. 



A r anea regia, Fabr., Entom. system, t. iii, p. 408, No. 4. 

 Olios leucosius, Walck., Ins. Apt. i. p. 566. 



Hab. Two or three immature females, found at Murree between June llth and July 

 14th, 1873, are, I believe, of this species ; but in the immature state it is impossible to be quite 

 certain of their specific identity. 



88. SAROTES PROHPTUS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 6J lines. 



The cephalothorax is rather longer than broad, a little constricted on the lateral margins 

 near the fore extremity of the caput, and broadly truncated at the lower margin in front. 

 The colour is a dark reddish yellow-brown, marked with still deeper stripes following the 

 course of the normal indentations, and converging to the thoracic junctional one ; it is thinly 

 clothed with greyish-sandy pubescence, and the clypeus (which is of a paler yellowish colour 

 and considerably less in height than half that of the facial space, or about equal to, or a 

 little more than, the diameter of a fore-lateral eye) is furnished with a few prominent, black 

 bristles. 



The eyes are in two transverse, nearly parallel rows ; the fore-laterals are the largest of 

 the eight, and considerably larger than the fore-centrals ; these last are further from each 

 other than each is from the fore-lateral on its side, the interval between each fore-central 

 and the fore-lateral eye next to it being equal to the diameter of the latter. The eyes of 



