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The palpi are short and moderately strong, similar to the legs in colour, and furnished 
rrith hairs and some long bristles. The radial and cubital joints are short, hut, as nearly as 
possible, of equal length and strength. The former terminates at its fore-extremity, on the 
°nter side, with a small, tapering, sharp-pointed, curved, reddish-brown, corneous-looking 
a pophvsis. The digital joint is elongate-oval, rather stouter than the radial, hut not quite 
so long as this and the cubital together. The palpal organs are simple, and not very promi- 
nent, with a curved, red-brown, tapering, sharp-pointed spine directed forwards at their 
fore-extremity near the inner side ; and about the middle of their fore-extremity is another 
spine, much smaller, and of a somewhat crooked form. 
The f alecs are strong and of moderate length; their direction is a little forwards ; and 
they are of a deep rich red-brown colour, clothed in front with long, strong, spinous bristles. 
The maxillce are curved, and inclined towards the labium, and their width, across the 
middle, is much increased by a development of that part, resembling a large semi-circular lobe 
"which gives them a somewhat sub-triangular form. They are also strongly bent, or impressed 
transversely, across the middle, and their colour (excepting at the extremities, which are pale 
yellowish) is like that of the falces. 
The labium is oblong-oval, rounded at the apex, which is of a pale-yellowish hue ; the 
c olour of the rest being like that of the maxillae. 
The sternum is of a slightly heart-shaped, oval form, of a reddish yellow-brown colour, 
impressed between the insertions of the legs, and clothed with hairs. 
The abdomen is of an oblong-oval form, rounded behind, rather truncated before, and 
moderately convex above. It is of a straw-yellow colour ; the normal oblong, . longitudinal 
marking on the fore-half of the upper side is generally obsolete ; now and then it is slightly 
traceable, and a small patch at its fore-extremity is of a yellow-brown hue. The whole abdo- 
men, above and below, is clothed with greyish sandy pubescence, mixed thinly on the upper 
side, chieflv, with long, nearly erect, tapering, strongish, black-brown bristles. The spinners 
are very unequal in size, those of the inferior pair being much the longest and strongest 
The female resembles the male in colour and in all other general characters but differs 
m size (being 5 to 6 lines in length), and in having rather longer legs. The genital aperture 
is small, of characteristic form, and edged with red-brown. . n 
This fine and very distinct species, which I have dedicated to its discoverer, the late Dr. 
Stoliczka, was found in the following localities. . , ^ . , T 
Sab . — Between Yangiliissar and Sirikol, March 1874; from Yarkand to ursi May 
2 8th to June 17th, 1874; also at Yangiliissar, April 1874; and Kashghar, December 1873. 
14, — Gnaphosa plumalis. 
Gnaphosa plumalis, Cambr., P. Z. S. 1872, p. 225, pi. xv, fig. 3. 
Hab .~ An immature female, which I have no doubt is of this species, was found on the 
route from Yarkand to Bursi, May 28tli to June 17tli, 1874. 
15 . — Gnaphosa mosrens, sp. n., PI- H> Fig. 13, <? . 
Adult female: length 3 to 3| lines. 
The whole of the fore part of this spider is of a dull yellow-brown colour ; the falces. 
