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spines, the latter almost entirely on the tibise and metatarsi of the third and fourth pairs ; 
the hairs are mostly of a grey pubescent kind. Each tarsus terminates with two curved, 
pectinated claws, beneath which is a claw-tuft, and the undersides of the tarsi, as well as a 
portion of the metatarsi, are furnished with a scopula. 
The palpi are short ; their colour is yellow, deepening to dark red-hrown on the digital 
joint, which is double the length of the radial ; it is furnished thickly with dark hairs and 
some black spines, and terminates with a short slightly curved black claw. The "cubital is 
similar to the radial joint in length. 
The falces are strong and rather long ; their direction is forward, and their profile 
arched ; they are of a deep, black red-hrown colour, and are clothed pretty thickly with a 
greyish pubescence, besides other hairs and bristles. 
The maxillae are long and strong (especially at the insertion of the palpi), curved and 
inclined considerably towards the labium, obliquely impressed across the middle, rounded at 
their outer extremity, and obliquely truncated on their inner extremity : their colour is 
slightly less dark than that of the cephalotliorax , and they are tipped with whitish yellow. 
The labium is long, reaching almost to the inner extremity of the maxilla} ; it is of an 
oblong form, rounded at the apex, depressed along the sides, and its colour is like that of the 
maxillae. 
The sternum is heart-shaped, similar in colour to the hinder part of the cephalothorax, 
and clothed with hairs. 
The abdomen is of an ohlong-oval form, of a yellowish-clay colour, and thinly clothed 
with brownish hairs ; the spinners are short but strong, and of a yellow-brown colour, those 
of the superior pair being a little shorter than those of the inferior; the genital aperture and 
the process connected with it are of peculiar and characteristic form, and of a deep blackish 
red-brown hue. 
The male differs in no respect of colour, general form, and character from the female. 
The palpi of the male are rather short, but strong ; the humeral joint is much bent and 
flattened on its inner side, where it curves round the falces, enlarging also to the anterior 
extremity ; the cubital joint is short, strong, tumid on the upper side, and has, at its outer 
extremity, a long, curved, pointed, red-brown apophysis, the point being recurved or sinuous , 
this apophysis reaches as far as the fore-extremity of the radial joint, which is slioiter, daiker 
coloured, and less strong than the cubital, and is furnished with two nearly black apophyses ; 
one on the outer side is strong, curved, and has its obtuse point directed upwards, the other 
is shorter, straighter, more pointed, and placed near the middle of the fore-extremity, to which 
it is nearly perpendicular; the digital joint is large, of an oval form, dark red-brown in 
colour, hairy, and in length exceeds the radial and cubital joints taken together; the 
Palpal organs are simple but well developed, consisting of a strong, somewhat cylindric, 
corneous iobe, the fore-extremity of which is broken into several not very prominent pro- 
cesses. 
Sab. — KAshghar, December 1873; Yarkand, 21st to 27tli May 1874; between Yangihis- 
sar and Sirikol, March 1874 ; neighbourhood of Leh, August or September 1873 ; Yarkand 
to Bursi, between May 28th and June 17th, 1874. 
I have had some hesitation in describing this spider as a Drassus. It appears to be 
nearly allied to Hypsinotus, L. Koch, but the length of the labium distinguishes it readily 
from that genus ; ‘for the present, therefore, I include it in the genus Drassus, with which, 
at any rate, it is very nearly allied. 
