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on the fore-half, may be traced in two longitudinal central lines converging backwards, as is 
indicating tlie position of the normal, but here obsolete, dorsal marking ; the fore margin if 
furnished beneath with a tuft of long, strong, upturned bristles ; the under side is of a uni- 
form yellowish mouse-brown colour : the spinners of the inferior pair are yellow-brown, and 
inuch the largest and strongest. 
The male resembles the female in all general characters, colours, and markings, and 
differs but very little in size. The palpi are short but moderately strong. The radial joint 
| s a little shorter than the cubital, and has its fore extremity, near the outer side, produced 
ln t° a tolerably strong, rather long, tapering-pointed apophysis, the point spinous-looking, red- 
brown, and slightly bent or curved; this apophysis is about equal to the joint itself in 
length. The digital joint is large, of an elongate-oval form, hairy, and rather longer than the 
r adial and cubital joints together ; the palpal organs arc well developed, but simple, with a 
tolerably strong, sharp pointed, slightly curved process of a brightish red-brown colour 
situated on their inner side, and directed to their fore extremity. 
Sab . — Hills between Sirikol and Aktalla, May 8th to 13th, 1874; between Yangihissar 
an d Sirikol, March 1874 ; and from Yarkand to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 1874. 
Genua — PBOSTEESIMA, L. Koch. 
16. — Prosthesima cingara, Camb. 
Prosthesima cingara, Cambr., P. Z. S., 1874, p. 382, pi. li, fig. 10, $ . 
The female only of this spider has been described. The following is a description of the 
male. 
Adult male : length 2 lines. 
Ceplialothorax oval, broadest towards the hinder part, whence it narrows gradually 
f° the fore extremity ; its upper side is flattened-convex above, and a little highest at its 
posterior extremity ; it is smooth, of a deep, rich brown colour, and thinly clothed with hairs. 
The eyes are in two very slightly curved rows, the curves directed backwards, and the 
front row the shortest ; those of the hind-central pair are small, oval, but not placed 
°bliq Ue ]y, near to each other, but separated by a distinct interval, less than that which divides 
e ach from the hind-lateral on its side ; the fore-lateral eyes are the largest of the eight, and 
fbe hind-centrals the smallest ; the fore-centrals are divided by an interval rather greater than 
a diameter, and each is almost contiguous to the fore-lateral on its side ; the interval between 
sack hind-lateral eye and the hind-central next to it is nearly about the same as that which 
divides the eyes of each lateral pair. The height of the clypeus is less than half that of 
the facial space. 
The legs are moderate in length and strength, the femora strongly incrassated on their 
u Pper sides ; they are furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines, the last chiefly on the tibiae 
aa d metatarsi of the third and fourth pairs. Their colour is deep blackish-brown, that 
°t the metatarsi and tarsi being of a dull yellowislx-brown hue. 
palpi are moderately long and strong and of a brownish-yellow colour ; the radial is 
rather less than the cubital joint in length, and has its fore extremity on the outer side pro- 
nged into a strong, tapering, pointed, dark red-brown, straight, and rather prominent 
a P°Physis, as long as, if not longer than, the joint itself ; the digital joint is large, oval, hairy, 
and of a yellowish-brown colour ; its length exceeds that of the radial and digital joints 
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