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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
palpi are reddisli-orange coloured; the maxilla ?, labium, and sternum bright orange-brown, ah 
the abdomen dull clay-coloured. In these respects there is, therefore, little or no difference 
between the present and many other species of Dysdera, nor is there any remarkable differ- 
ence either in the form of the cephalothorax or in the position of the eyes ; the surface of th e 
former, although not marked with any distinct punctures, is not glossy ; the normal grooves 
and indentations, though visible, are very slightly defined and it is uniformly but not grea y 
convex ; the fore part is broadly truncated, and the caput is a little constricted at the lateiv 
margins. The cephalothorax is remarkably small, and short, compared to the length of the 
abdomen. 
The eyes (six in number) are placed round a slight tubercular elevation close to the 
fore part of the caput, the height of the clypeus being not more than equal to the diameter o 
one of the foremost eyes ; those of the posterior row (four) are equal in size, contiguous ^ 
each other, and form, as nearly as possible, a straight transverse line ; immediately in l' ront 0 
each lateral eye of this row, is another larger one contiguous to it, and forming an oblique 
line in relation to the hinder row, so that the row consisting of the two anterior eyes is ra i 
shorter than the hinder row. 
The legs are moderate in length and strength, and their relative length is 1, 4, 2, 3. I 1 • 
are furnished very sparingly with hairs, and these are chiefly on the under side ; those of i® 
third and fourth pairs have also a few short, fine spines ; the tarsi are very short an 
terminate with two curved, pectinated claws, beneath which is a small compact claw- 1 ^ 
behind this the tarsi and the anterior portion of the metatarsi are thickly fringed underm a 
with hairs. ^ 
The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, and are furnished with hairs and bristles, 
fore part of the digital joint being rather thickly clothed with them, and its extremity ^ 
furnished either with two small claws, or else with a short curved dentieulation spring 111 ^ 
from the base of the ordinary claw ; the hairs and bristles surrounding this part make i 
difficult to ascertain this exactly. 
The f aloes are moderately long, porrected, and rather hollowed on the inner side of t ^ 
fore half ; their length does not exceed half that of the cephalothorax, and the front sui a 
near their base is furnished with a few minute tubercular granulations. _ 
The maxillce are rather long, strong, excavated on the side towards the labium, oblupm^ 
truncated at the extremity, and convexly rounded on the outer side above the point wheie ^ 
palpi are articulated ; at this point, which is nearly about the middle, the maxillae are very , s 
The labium is rather more than two-thirds of the length of the maxillae, and is ' 
broad at its base, a little way above which there is a transverse suture or indentation > 
sides above this are hollowed; the apex is also hollowed, or strongly, and roundly, inden 
The sternum is oval, obtusely pointed behind, truncated before, and strongly impi es 
at the points between the insertions of the legs. distm* 
The abdomen is large and of an oblongo-cylindrical form; this character alone 
guishes it at once from all other described species known to me. It is thinly clothe 
very short hairs, and the spinners are short and inconspicuous. a ller. 
The male differs in no essential respect from the female, except in being rather sin 
and, of course, in the smaller size of the abdomen, which, however, preserves the same 
drical oblong form ; the palpi are very like those of Dysdera cambridgii, Thor. \D- 
thrina, Bl.), but the palpal organs are of a much more elongated form. 
Rab. — Murree, between June 11th and July 14th, 1873. 
