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larger than the eyes of the fore-central pair. The distance hetween each eye of the second 

 row and the lateral of the first row opposite to it is equal to the diameter of the former. 

 The length of the third row is double that of the second, and the interval between these two 

 rows is double that between the first and second. 



The legs are rather short, strong, tapering, but not attenuated at the extremities ; they 

 are of a yellowish colour, pretty densely clothed with hairs, armed with a few not very 

 strong spines, and annulated with rusty red-brown, most distinctly on the upper side of the 

 femora ; their relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3, but the difference is not great. 



The palpi are tolerably long, and similar in colour and armature to the legs. 



Thefalces are moderate in length and strength, straight and perpendicular ; they are 

 of a yellow colour, with two longitudinal red-brown lines at their base, and are furnished 

 with numerous bristles in front. 



The maxillce and labium are of ordinary form, hairy, and similar in colour to the 

 falces. 



The sternum is oval, truncated before, of a deep rusty red-b r own colour, bordered with 

 a broad yellow margin, and with a median, longitudinal, sharp-pointed, yellow stripe at its 

 fore extremity. 



The abdomen is of an oblong-oval form, broadly, but rather roundly, truncated at its 

 fore extremity, and pretty densely clothed with greyish-yellow and other hairs. The upper 

 part and sides are of a dark rusty-reddish colour, freckled with small, pale- yellowish spots. 

 The fore part of the upper side has the normal longitudinal marking of an orange-yellowish 

 colour, slightly margined with deep red-brown and rather bluntly pointed at its hinder 

 extremity : this marking is rather broadest just behind the middle, and on each side of the 

 broadest (or subangularly prominent) part is a short, orange-yellow, oblique stripe : and 

 following the hinder extremity of the marking is a series of oblique, rather elongate, opposed, 

 oval markings of a similar colour in pairs, each oval marking containing a small but distinct 

 central red-brown spot : the two lines of these oval markings converge towards the spinners, 

 but become obsolete before they reach these parts. They evidently represent the normal 

 angular bars or chevrons. The under side is dull orange-yellow, with a longitudinal median 

 rusty band. 



Immature males resembled the females in colour and size. 



Hub. This spider appears to be pretty common. Its localities are Yarkand and neigh- 

 bourhood, November 1873 ; Kashghar, December 1873 ; and route from Yarkand to Bursi, 

 between May 28th and June 17th, 1874. 



101. TKOCHOSA HEBES, sp. n. 



Adult male : length 2| lines. 



This spider, which is of the Trochosa picta group, is very closely allied to Arctosa 

 amylacea, C. L. Koch, which it resembles in size and in the general character of its markings, 

 but it is not nearly of so bright a hue ; and the form of the genital aperture of the female 

 is quite distinct. I have only been able to compare the females of the two species, not 

 possessing a male of A. amylacea. 



The cephalolhorax is broad-oval behind, and somewhat drawn out forwards, though 

 with but slight lateral constrictions on the margins of the caput ; its colour is brownish- 



