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In a blunt angular form on the outer side, with a short red-brown irregular projection rather 

 underneath ; the digital joint is round-oval, brownish-coloured behind, and of a narrow, 

 slightly tapering, pointed, beak-like form in front ; the beak portion is yellowish, and less in 

 length than the oval part ; this part has a small angular prominence at its base on the outer 

 side. The palpal organs are prominent and rather complex, but do not present any remark- 

 able processes. The radial and cubital joints are furnished with several long, curved, spine- 

 like bristles. 



The falees are not very long nor strong ; they are of a subconical form, straight, per 

 pendicular, similar in colour to the cephalothorax, and bisected in front by a longitudinal 

 brown line. 



The maxilla; and labium are of normal form, the colour of the former is yellow, and of 

 the latter yellow-brown. 



The abdomen is long and narrow, being of an elongate, tapering, or pyramidal form ; 

 the fore part is the largest, and it gradually narrows to the spinners : it is of a yellowish hue, 

 somewhat freckled with white cretaceous spots of small size ; the upper side is margined on 

 each side with a double longitudinal brown line, and a faint, narrow, tapering, dusky band 

 along the middle ; on the under side is a broadish, tapering, dusky, longitudinal band, mar- 

 gined with reddish-brown. 



The female is more distinctly marked than the male, and the process connected with 

 the genital aperture is blackish and prominent. The colours of this spider, as above described 

 from examples for several years immersed in spirits, cannot be considered altogether reliable, 

 inasmuch as the yellow tints may have possibly been more or less green when the spider was 



living. 



gab. Tinali; route from Murree to Sind Valley, July 19th, 1873. 



I come to the conclusion that this is the locality, because Dr. Stoliczka, in his diary of 

 July 19th, 1873, mentions having found that evening a good number of spiders, " chiefly 

 Thomisus and Sphasus" (=0xyopes), and in the one unlabelled bottle I find the only ex- 

 amples of Sphasus contained in the whole collection. These are of three species, the present 

 and the next one very nearly allied to each other, the third quite distinct both in form and 

 markings ; all three are, I believe, of undescribed species, though Dr. Stoliczka says of those 

 he found " among the latter (Sphasus) " he recognized Sphasus viridanus. This is a Calcutta 

 species described by Dr. Stoliczka in Journ. Asiat. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxviii, p. 220, pi. xx, 

 fig. 1, and is undoubtedly a species of Pasithea, Bl. (Peucetia, Thor.), which, thougli 

 generically nearly allied to Sphasus, is yet easily recognized by the difference in the position 

 of the eyes. 



120. OXYOPES PU.EDICTA, Sp. n. 



Adult male : length 4 lines. 



This spider is very closely allied to Oxyopes jubilans ; it is, however, rather larger, and 

 this, I think, may probably prove to be a constant character. In general colouring, form, and 

 appearance, the two species are strikingly similar, but the following distinctions will serve 

 to separate them without difficulty. 



The cephalothorax has no lateral brown lines running to the fore corners of the clypeus, 

 and the two parallel median ones are here replaced by a not very distinct, median, longi- 

 tudinal rusty-reddish band, which runs quite to the hinder row of eyes. 



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