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The eyes occupy a larger area, and are of a pale, dull, yellowish-brown hue, being much 

 paler than in the other species mentioned. 



The legs are rather shorter in proportion, and are pretty distinctly annulated with brown ; 

 whereas they have rarely any trace of annulation in T ruricola. 



The abdomen is of a much darker hue, being of a blackish yellow-brown colour, the 

 normal median longitudinal marking on the fore half of the upper side is of a brighter orange- 

 yellow, and is margined by a much more distinct black border. The form of the genital 

 aperture differs but very slightly. The under side of the abdomen is suffused with dark brown, 

 and on each side is a marginal border of a darker black-brown. 



Had. Sind Valley, between 5th and 13th August, 1883. 



103. TROCHOSA ADJACENS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length just over 5 lines. 



This spider is very closely allied to T. terricola, Thor., differing from it in about the same 

 degree as T. propinqua does from T. ruricola, De Geer. It is rather a smaller spider, and 

 the cephalothorax appears also to be of a rather broader form, and the whole spider is of a 

 much duller hue and less distinctly marked ; the bands on the cephalothorax are scarcely 

 discernible.; the whole being of a dull yellowish-brown colour, pretty densely clothed with 

 short, greyish-sandy pubescence 5 and with some indistinct, darker brown, radiating stripes 

 indicating the normal indentations. 



The eyes of the front row are much larger than in T. terricola, and are very nearly 

 equal in size to those of the hinder row ; these last, however, being much smaller than the 

 corresponding ones in that species. 



The legs in the present spider have no trace whatever of annulation, while those of 

 T. terricola are frequently annulated with brown, though never very distinctly, and, in 

 general, chiefly on the femora. 



The markings on the abdomen are very similar, as also is the form of the genital aperture, 

 though a slight difference in this respect is observable. 



Hal. Yangihissar, April 1874. 



104. TKOCHOSA SABULOSA, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 10 lines. 



The cephalothorax of this fine spider is strongly compressed laterally on the margins 

 of the caput, and the lateral slopes are much depressed ; the caput, however, is broad at its 

 lower margin and tolerably massive above. Its colour is reddish yellow-brown, totally 

 obscured by a dense clothing of short, pale sandy-grey pubescence, leaving but very slight 

 and broken traces of the ordinary radiating indentations of a darkish brown colour. The 

 height of the clypeus is equal to the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position, and occupy an area whose length and breadth 

 are, as near as possible, equal ; the front row is distinctly longer than the middle one ; its 

 central pair of eyes are much larger than the laterals, though distinctly smaller than those 

 of the hinder row, and are separated by an interval less than a diameter, but double as great 

 as that which divides each from the lateral next to it ; those of the middle row are divided 



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