100 SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



The eyes form an area broader than long ; those of the anterior row are separated from 

 each other by a small and equal interval, and those of the middle row appear to be as nearly 

 as possible half-way between the first. and third rows, and slightly within the straight line 

 formed on each side by the laterals of those rows, of which the first is shorter than the 

 third. 



The legs are moderately strong and not very long, those of the first pair are the longest, 

 considerably the strongest, and of a dark yellow-brown colour, the femora being the lightest 

 in hue ; the rest are yellow, tinged with brown, and all are furnished with hairs and long pro- 

 minent bristles, but no spines except some short ones beneath the tibiae and metatarsi of the 

 first pair : there is a compact claw-tuft beneath the terminal tarsal claws. The third pair 

 appear to be slightly the shortest. 



The palpi are short, of a yellow-brown colour, and furnished with hairs and bristles ; the 

 cubital joint is short and strong, the radial is shorter and less strong, but is considerably 

 produced on its outer side, the produced portion ending in a tapering, pointed, slightly blunt 

 apophysis. The digital joint is long, of a slightly bent oblong-oval form. The palpal 

 organs have a large, nearly globular lobe at their base, extending beneath and rather on the 

 inner side of the radial and cubital joints. 



The y 'aloes are short, strong, straight, projecting strongly forward, and but very slightly 

 divergent ; their anterior extremity is as broad almost as the posterior, truncated, and with a 

 strongish tooth at the inner corner ; their colour is dark yellow-brown tinged with red. 



The maxilla are short, strong, broadest, and rounded at their extremities, and inclined 

 towards the labium, which is of a somewhat oblong-oval form; these parts are of a 

 deep yellow-brown hue, the extremities of the former, and the apex of the latter being of a 

 paler colour. 



The sternum is oval and of a palish yellow-brown colour. 



The abdomen is oval and of a somewhat flattish form; it is banded transversely on the 

 upper part and sides with alternate broad whitish and dark-brown bands, the first band 

 encircling the fore margin, is white, and the second and third are divided in the middle by a 

 narrow brown patch ; the brown bands are considerably the broadest, and all become more or less 

 tapering when they reach the sides : the surface is clothed with hairs ; a broad longitudinal 

 median band, and a lateral one on each side, are formed by hairs of a rusty scarlet hue, those 

 on the intermediate spaces being whitish grey ; on the hinder half of the upper side is a 

 longitudinal, median series of whitish, angular bars, of course visible only when they occur 

 upon the brown transverse bands, the under side is dull whitish, with a broad median 

 longitudinal tapering yellowish-brown band. 



Hab. Yarkand, May 1874. 



125. MENEMEEUS INCERTUS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length 2f lines. 



The cephalothorax of this spider is short, of a rather flattened form, and the profile of 

 the ocular area slopes, but very slightly, downwards ; this part is of a brownish black hue, the 

 rest of the cephalothorax being brownish-yellow, and the whole clothed with appressed grey 

 hairs ; some erect bristly ones being dispersed thinly over the surface. The margins are 

 black. 



