98 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



The palpi present an easily observed difference from those of Oxyopesjulilans both in 

 the radial and digital joints. The former is not enlarged on the outer side, but is, on the con- 

 trary, rather excavated there, with a somewhat corneous, red-brown ridge just behind the 

 excavated part : the radial joint is also somewhat angularly prominent underneath towards 

 the inner side. The digital joint has its short-oval, posterior portion of a darker hue, arid 

 more angularly prominent at its base on the outer side. The anterior, or beak-like, portion is 

 also distinctly longer than the oval part, and terminates in a sharpish and somewhat corneous 

 point. 



The legs have the femoral joints of the third and fourth pairs as distinctly marked with 

 one (if not two) longitudinal blackish-brown lines as the whole of the first and second pairs. 



The abdomen has on the upper side a longitudinal, median, tapering, rusty-reddish band, 

 at the fore part of which the normal elongate marking, of a somewhat spear-headed form 

 and yellow colour, is visible. 



Hab. Found at the same time and in the same locality as 0. jubilans. Tinali ; route 

 from Murree to Sind Valley, July 19th, 1873. 



121. OXYOPES KEJECTA, Sp. n. 



Adult femnle : length rather less than 3| lines. 



This spider is nearly allied to Oocyopes (Sphasus) gentilis, C. L. Koch. It may easily 

 be distinguished from the two foregoing species by its shorter legs, as well as by its shorter, 

 stouter form, and by the short cephalothorax, which has the sides and hinder slope very steep, 

 and the normal indentations very slightly marked, so that the divisional line between the 

 thorax and caput is scarcely visible. The colour of the cephalothorax is brownish-yellow, 

 paler in the ocular area and at the occiput ; it is indistinctly marked in the median longitu- 

 dinal line, as well as on the sides, with blackish-brown ; there are also two slightly curved 

 lines, of the same colour, running down from the two foremost eyes over to the middle of 

 each of the falces, and continued over them in a slightly sinuous form, but stopping some- 

 what considerably short of their extremity. 



The eyes are on conspicuous black blotches, those of the third row are considerably nearer 

 to those of the second than to those of the fourth (or posterior) row. The length of the two 

 last (2nd and 4th) rows are exactly equal, though, owing to the difference in the size of the 

 eyes, the interval between those of each row is different. The height of the clypeus is rather 

 less than half that of the facial space. 



The legs are rather short, and their relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3. They are armed with 

 long spines, and their colour is yellow, the femora being marked underneath with two longi- 

 tudinal parallel, blackish-brown lines. 



The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, rather long, slender, and armed with a few 

 strong spine-like bristles. 



The jalves are not very long nor strong ; they are of a subconical form, straight, and 

 perpendicular ; their length is less than the height of the facial space, and their colour is like 

 that of the cephalothorax, with a longitudinal blackish-brown line from the base to two-thirds 

 of the distance towards their extremity. 



The maxillae and labium are of normal form, and of a light brownish-yellow hue. 



