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The eyes are of almost uniform size, seated on distinct black spots. The interval 

 between the fore-centrals is considerably less than a diameter, and each is very close, but not 

 quite contiguous, to the fore-lateral eye on its side. The interval between those of each 

 lateral pair is rather less than a diameter of the hind-lateral eye ; the eyes of the hinder row 

 are equidistant from each other, and the four central eyes form a square whose anterior side 

 is shorter than the other three. 



The legs are long, slender, furnished with hairs and a few longish fine spines ; their 

 relative length is apparently 2, 4, 1, 3. The tarsi and metatarsi have some divergent hairs 

 of uniform length underneath, but scarcely amounting to a scopula ; and there is a strong 

 claw-tuft beneath the two terminal claws of the tarsi. 



The abdomen is of a dull straw-yellow colour. The upper part and sides are marked 

 with red-brown spots and markings ; two broken longitudinal lines of these spots on the 

 fore half of the upper side enclose a long wedge-shaped marking, which is followed by a series 

 of somewhat angular spots of the same hue reaching to the spinners. A few whitish creta- 

 ceous spots are scattered along the middle longitudinal line of the upper side as well as on the 

 under side. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Leh, August or September, 1873. 



90. SPARASSTJS FUGAX, sp. n. 



Immature female : length 2| lines. 



This spider is closely allied to the foregoing, but is of a much duller hue, the yellow 

 portions being suffused with dull brownish. The abdomen is shorter and more convex above ; 

 the red-brown spots and markings are more thinly scattered, while the white cretaceous 

 spots are larger and more numerous, and spread over the whole abdomen. The femora, 

 genua, and tibiae are speckled with small red-brown spots, and the spines are longer. The 

 maxillae also have no central brown patch. With these differences the general character of 

 the markings is similar to that of $2 )arassus timidus. 



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



91. SPARASSTJS FLAVIDUS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 10 lines. 



The cephalothorax is nearly as broad as long, truncated before and constricted laterally at 

 the caput ; the height of the clypeus is nearly equal to twice the diameter of one of the 

 fore-central eyes. Its colour is yellow, tinged with brownish orange, deepening to red-brown 

 on the fore part of the caput ; and it is thickly clothed with sandy-grey pubescence. 



The eyes are in a somewhat crescent form, in two transverse rows, the hinder one 

 the longer and straight, or very nearly so ; the front row curved, the convexity of the curve 

 directed forwards. They are of moderate size, and relatively differ but little, those of the 

 fore-central pair being a little the largest ; the intervals between those of the hinder row 

 are equal; that between the fore-centrals is more than double that between each and the 



