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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
In the systematic list of species following the present descriptions, figures are adde 
notifying in which of Mr. Hume’s regions each species occurred. Supplementary lists are 
also appended of the spiders found in each separate region, with figures showing in wha 
other regions, if any, each occurred. From these lists, it will he seen that one species on } 
( that mentioned above) was common to all the five regions ; three others were common to 
four of the regions ; four others common to three regions ; and fourteen others common to 
two of them ; — sixty-sis of the species being, as above observed, found only in region 1 ° 
Mr. Hume, corresponding exactly to the first region indicated, as it seems to me, by t ie 
character of the spiders themselves. 
The regions named by Mr. Hume are : — 
(1) “ Cashmere including Murree and the road thence to Cashmere — This comp useS 
the spiders noted in my descriptions as Murree, Murree to Sind valley, and Sind valley. ^ 
(5) “ Ladakh, from the Zojeela Lass to the head of the Lankong Lake. -f ^ 
comprises the spiders noted in my descriptions as Neighbourhood of Leh, and Tantee 
Chagra, and Lankong valley. 
(3) “ The mountain masses between the head of the Lankong Lake and the pl (U,n 
of Yarkand ,” comprising only the spiders noted as Yarkand to Burst, there being 
spiders in the collection labelled as having been obtained during the forward journey from 
the Pankong Lake to the plains of Yarkand. . , 
(4) “ The plains of Yarkand ,” comprising the spiders noted as Yarkand and neig ' 
bourhood, and Yarkand:' Excepting the three species mentioned as subtropical in my sCC ^ p 
region, there were no spiders, in this region 4 of Mr. Hume, differing in character from 
general run of those in his regions 2, 3, and 5. 
(5) “ The high country icest of Yarkand, the hills leading up to the Lamir, the Larni ' 
and TPokhan. ■ This comprises the spiders noted as Kdshghar, between Yangihdssaf (> 
Sirikol, I angihissar, road across the Lamir from Sirikol to Lavjah and back, and 11 
betioeen Sirikol and Aktalla. ^ 
It will be seen from the above that my first region corresponds exactly with region 1 
Mr. Hume, and that my second region includes Mr. Hume’s regions 2, 3, 4, and 5- 
The localities noted for each species in my descriptions are those written (I stvpp ose 
Dr. Stoliczka himself) upon the several bottles in which the spiders were contained. ^ 
attempt had been made to separate the species in each bottle, nor, with one exception, is t >m 
anything in Dr. Stoliczka’s diary referring intelligibly to the separate contents of the bo 
Dr. Stoliczka’s notes on the spiders are very few, and of the most general description. I n . g 
one exceptional instance (Diary, p. 3, dated 19th July 1873, Tinali), the note refers to 
capture of a £ ‘ great number of spiders, chiefly Thoursus ” (probably a misprint for lh° nl ^ 
though there were very few Thomisids in this bottle) “and Sphassus [ Sphasiis ] ; among 
latter I recognised Sphasus viridanus .” Now, there was not a single example of Sphasf ^ 
any one of the bottles, excepting in one, which contained no label nor any other °l ue el g 
to the locality or its contents ; the mention therefore of Sphasus is thus important, an ^ 
the locality in which the contents of this unlabelled bottle were collected. The P 
viridanus alluded to is a Calcutta species, described by Dr. Stoliczka himself (Journ. s ^ e 
Soc., Bengal, vol. xsxviii, p. 220, pi. xx, fig. 1), but is quite distinct from either ol 
three species found in this bottle {vide remarks on these species, infra). .. ^ ca l 
Out of the 132 species in the collection, I can only determine 23 as certainly 1C . ce< 
with European species already described, leaving 109, which I believe to be new to sci 
