96 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



mity is prolonged into a more or less distinct median line to the spinners, and gives off on 

 each side various ohlique lines and markings, forming some tolerably distinct, angular, yellow- 

 bars of different sizes, and some of which have a dark-brown spot at their extremities. There 

 is a tolerably clear, marginal yellow space round the normal marking on the fore half. The 

 under side is almost all occupied by a broad longitudinal light-brown band. 



The genital aperture is small, but of characteristic form. The spinners are very short, 

 but those of the superior pair are stronger and rather longer than those of the inferior. An 

 immature male resembled the female in colours and markings. 



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Sab. Yarkand and neighbourhood, November 1873 ; Kashghar, December 1873 ; 

 between Yangihissar and Sirikol, March 1874 ; Yangihissar, April 1874 ; Yarkand, 21st to 

 27th May 1874, and Yarkand to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 1874. 



Family - SPH ASIDES. 



GermnOXYOPES, La.tr. 

 119. OXYOPES JUBILANS, Sp. n. 



Adult male : length rather more than 3^ lines. 



This spider is nearly allied to Oxyopes (Sphasus) lepidus, Blackw., of which the female 

 only has yet been described ; the latter differs, however, from the female of the present spe- 

 cies in being of a more robust form and in having shorter legs, as well as in the abdominal 

 markings. 



The general form and appearance are similar to those of most others of the genus ; the 

 cephalothorax is of a brownish-yellow colour, and the normal indentations are distinctly 

 marked. The ocular area, and the middle of the clypeus are clothed with grey hairs ; a fine 

 brown line runs obliquely along tue' margins of the upper side, and so downward to the 

 lower corners of the clypeus ; two others run, one from each of the two foremost eyes, nearly 

 perpendicularly to the falces (to the extremity of which they are continued), bisecting them 

 in front. There are also two parallel brown lines along the middle of the cephalothorax, not 

 reaching further forward than the occiput, and less distinct in the male than in the female ; 

 the eyes are on black spots and in the usual position, six posterior ones forming a transverse 

 hexagonal figure whose sides scarcely differ in length ; they may be also taken as in four 

 transverse rows of two each. Those of the foremost row are very minute and separated from 

 those of the next row by an eye's diameter. Those of the second row are the largest of the 

 eight or nearly so, and are separated by an interval of one diameter, both from each other, 

 and from the eyes of the third row ; this row is considerably the longest, and the fourth row 

 is slightly longer than the second, its eyes being rather further from each other than each is 

 from the lateral of the third row on its side. 



The legs are long and slender, their relative length seems to be 4, 1, 2, 3 ; they are of a 

 yellow colour, and are armed with numerous long spines. The femora of the first and second 

 pairs have longitudinal brown lines on the under side, a faint trace of two only of these 

 existing on the femora of the third and fourth pairs. 



The palpi are short, similar in colour to the legs ; the cubital joint is very short with 

 but a very slight angular prominence at its fore extremity on the upper side; the radial joint 

 is much stronger than the cubital ; it is strongly tinged with yellow-brown, much enlarged 



