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lations ; they are furnished with hairs and spines, but hare no scopula beneath the tarsi and 

 metatarsi. 



The palpi are similar in colour and markings to the legs. 



The maxilla, labium, and sternum are of ordinary form, and of a yellow-brown colour. 

 The f alces are also of a similar colour, rather long, powerful, and perpendicular, and fur- 

 nished with a few bristles in front. 



The abdomen is a little wider behind than in front, its colour is yellowish, clothed, but 

 not very densely, with a few greyish, and a few longer, coarser brown hairs ; there is, along 

 each lateral margin of the upper side, a broad dentated brown band, from the lower side 

 of which two or three oblique, but very regular, rows of brown spots traverse the sides ; along 

 the middle of the fore half is the normal marking of a deep brown colour edged with 

 black, with a prominent angular point on each side, and truncate at its posterior extremity, 

 which merges in the first of a series of broadish, angular, brown chevrons ; these decrease 

 in size as they approach the spinners; the point of each chevron, which is (as usual) directed 

 forwards, touching the inside of the angle of the chevron in front of it. The under side is 

 immaculate. 



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



109. TARENTULA INIMICA, sp. n. 



Adult female : length rather more than 6 lines. 



The cephalothorax is yellow-brown, with a broad longitudinal band, on each side, of a 

 darker hue ; the whole covered with a short sandy-grey pubescence. The clypeus is low, 

 not much exceeding in height the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. The eyes of this 

 row are placed on somewhat of a ridge, making this part look prominent when seen in profile. 

 The facies is low. 



The eyes occupy an area about equal in length and breadth. The front row is distinctly 

 shorter than the middle one ; its eyes are very small ; the centrals are but slightly, if at all, 

 larger than the laterals, and the interval between them is greater than that between each 

 and the lateral eye on its side. The eyes of the middle row are much larger than those of 

 the posterior one, and are separated by slightly over a diameter's interval ; the hinder row is 

 considerably longer than the middle one. 



The legs are tolerably strong, but not very long ; those of the fourth pair are the longest, 

 the rest not varying veiy much ; they are of a yellow-brown colour, and are furnished with 

 hairs and spines ; the tarsi of the first and second pairs have a very thin scopula on their 

 under sides. 



The palpi are short, but similar in colour to the legs. 



The maxillce and labium are of a rich deep red- brown colour ; the former have their 

 extremity, and the latter has its apex, pale yellow. 



The sternum is oval, somewhat truncated at is anterior extremity, and similar in colour 

 to the maxillae. 



The abdomen is of a short-oval form considerably convex above ; it is of a reddish-brown 

 colour mottled with much clearer reddish spots ; the normal longitudinal macula on the 

 fore half of the upper side is large, considerably prominent past the middle on each side, 

 and truncated at its posterior extremity ; it is of an obscure brovr n hue, indistinctly margined 



