72 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



the hind-central pair are nearer to each other than each is to the hind-lateral eye nearest 

 to it ; the interval between the eyes of each lateral pair is rather less than that between the 

 fore- and hind-central pairs, owing to the small size of the fore-central eyes. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength ; in respect to the former, they do not differ 

 greatly ; relatively this appears to he 2, 4, 1, 3. Their colour is reddish yellow-brown, growing 

 darker gradually to the tarsi ; the femora are much the palest, and are obscurely spotted with 

 small, red-brown spots ; all are armed with long spines, and the tarsi and metatarsi are fur- 

 nished with claw-tuft and scopula. 



The palpi are moderately long, the digital is equal in length to the radial and cubital 

 joints together, while in colour and armature they resemble the legs. 



Tkefalces are tolerably long, powerful, straight, perpendicular, and rounded in the 

 profile line ; their colour is reddish yellow-brown, somewhat longitudinally striped with a 

 darker hue. 



The maxilla are rather long, straight, slightly inclined towards the labium, and 

 rounded at their extremities, which are of a yellowish colour, the rest being dark red- 

 brown. 



The labium is small, of a somewhat semi-circular form, and its height is not half the 

 length of the maxillae. Its colour is dark red-brown, with a pale apical margin. 



The sternum is heart-shaped, and of a yellow colour, like that of the basal joints of the 

 legs. 



The abdomen is oblong-oval, rather truncate before, and rounded behind, and moderately 

 convex above ; it is clothed with somewhat silky, sandy-grey pubescence, and is of a dark red- 

 brown and reddish yellow-brown colour, mixed in variously mingled spottings and linear 

 markings. An indistinct, longitudinal, narrow, dark red-brown, tapering marking occupies 

 the middle of the fore part of the upper side ; and towards the hinder extremity is a slightly 

 sinuous, transverse, dark blackish line, edged posteriorly with pale-yellowish, and rendered 

 conspicuous by short white hairs. Along the middle of the under side, from the genital aperture 

 to the spinners, is a broad, black-brown band, laterally margined with a pale stripe. The 

 genital aperture, which is large, conspicuous, and of a somewhat triangular form, has two 

 large, nearly round, prominent lobes or processes connected with its posterior margins. The 

 spinners are small, short, and compact ; those of the superior pair are deep blackish red-brown, 

 the inferior pair yellow-brown. 



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



Genus SPARASSUS, Walok. 



89. SPARASSUS TIMIDTTS, sp. n. 



Immature female : length nearly 3^ lines. 



This spider is nearly allied to Sparassus suavis, Cambr. (Spid. of Egypt, P. Z. S., 1876, 

 p. 588), resembling it very closely in its colours and markings; the femora of the fore- 

 legs, however, have no trace of the reddish-brown spots found on those of that species, and 

 the eyes are closer together. 



The whole of the fore part is yellow, the cephalot.horax having a slightly radiate appear- 

 ance owing to the rather darker hue of the normal con verging indentations ; and the maxilla 

 have a central, dark, reddish-brown patch. 



