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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 



The palpi are short, yellow, and furnished with coarse hairs, principally on the digital 

 joints. 



Thefalces are short, strong, straight, nearly perpendicular, but removed rather far hack- 

 wards, and of a dark yellow-hrown colour. 



The maxillae and labium are yellow-brown ; the sternum is yellow, with dusky margins, 

 and of a rather elongate-oval form. 



The abdomen is of a short-oval form, rather broader behind, where it is rounded, the fore 

 extremity being rather truncated, and projecting over the base of the cephalothorax ; the 

 upper side is black-brown, thinly speckled with yellowish points ; on the middle of the fore 

 part is a small, somewhat triangular, pale-yellow patch, produced backwards in a short stalk- 

 like form with a prominent blunt point or patch on each side, and followed towards the 

 spinners by a series of large, angular lines, or chevrons, of the same colour ; the first of 

 these chevrons is of a rather sinuous form, and they all vary in strength and distinctness of 

 definition, and have, here and there, a black-brown spot upon them ; the sides are pale-yellow, 

 spotted, chiefly on the hinder half, with black-brown, and the under side is also pale-yellowish, 

 with a broad, longitudinal, median, dusky-brownish band. The genital aperture is small, and 

 of characteristic form, its colour being yellow-brown, edged with red-brown ; the spinners 

 are short ; the superior pair are of a dark-blackish hue ; the inferior pair yellow-brown, slightly 

 shorter, but a little stronger, than the superior pair. 



Sab. Sind Valley, August 1873. 



130. ATTUS DIDUCTUS, sp. n. 



Adult female : length rather over 2| lines. 



This spider is nearly allied to Attus beneficus, which it resembles in general colours 

 and markings, but may be distinguished at once by the less convex cephalothorax and the 

 flatter ocular area. The sides of the cephalothorax also, instead of constituting a broad, well- 

 defined yellow band along almost its whole width, have only an irregular and not very well- 

 defined brownish-yellow, narrow, marginal border, the margin itself being black ; the fore 

 central pair of eyes are also much darker-coloured, and the legs are rather less strong, those 

 of the fourth pair being distinctly, though not greatly, longer than the first, which last are 

 rather the stoutest and are marked along each side with deep brown. 



The colour of the sternum is dark yellow-brown, and the abdomen has a very similar 

 pattern to that of A. beneficus, though less distinct, and the form of the genital aperture is 

 quite distinct. 



Hab. Murree, June llth to July 14th, 1873. 



131. ATTUS ATJSPEX, sp. n. 



Adult male : length 2| lines. 



The cephalothorax is broader behind than in front ; looked at in profile the hinder slope 

 is long, gradual, and but very slightly convex, running to the third posterior row of eyes, 

 from which the caput slopes rapidly downwards to the anterior row ; its colour is yellow- 

 brown, deepening gradually to the caput, which is black-brown ; there is a narrow blackish 



