ARANEIDEA. 
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The cephalothorax is of ordinary form and of a brightisli yellow-brown colour, clothed 
with greyish and iridescent hairs and scales. 
The eyes are in two nearly concentric curved rows, like those of M. connexa and others, 
the front row being the shortest. 
The legs are moderately long and tolerably strong ; their relative length is apparently 
4, 1, 2, 3. They are similar in colour to the cephalothorax, the sides of the tibiae being 
suffused a little with brown, and the tarsi have the appearance of being annulated with the 
same colour. They are clothed with grey and iridescent hairs ; the former disposed some- 
what in longitudinal lines. 
The palpi are not very long; their colour is pale yellow; the cubital joint is shorter than 
the radial, and the digital is of a long, narrow-pointed, oval form. Being immature, these 
remarks on the palpi would, perhaps, not be strictly applicable to those of the adult spider, 
though the proportions of the several joints would probably be the same as in the immature 
state. 
The f alces are tolerably long, strong, perpendicular, similar in colour to the cephalotho- 
rax, and furnished with greyish hairs and dark bristles. 
The abdomen is of a dull yellow-brown hue, clothed thinly with iridescent, scaly hairs. 
It has two parallel, transverse, slight constrictions near the middle of the upper side ; an in- 
distinct longitudinal median brown marking, pointed at its posterior extremity, occupies the 
fore-half of the upper side, followed towards the spinners by a longitudinal series of several 
less distinct, transverse, curved, brown lines, the convexity of the curves directed forwards. 
These markings would be probably invisible, except when in spirits of wine. 
Ilab . — Bound on the route across the Pamir from Sirikol to Panja and back, April 22nd 
to May 7th, 1874. 
Genus — CLVBIONA, Latr. 
19. — CliUBIONA DELETRIX, sp. n., PI. II, Eig- 14, <? • 
Adult male 2§ lines : adult female, 3| lines. 
In colours and pattern this spider is very like Clubiona compta, C. L. Koch, and is still 
Diore nearly allied to C. robusta, L. Koch (an Australian species). It is, however, smallei 
than the laiter, and in the palpi differs from both. 
The cephalothorax is of ordinary form, and its colour is brownish-yellow, tinged slightly 
with reddish-brown towards the fore part of the caput. The normal indentations are dusky ; 
t^e junction of the caput and the thoracic segments is marked with a short, fine, longitudinal 
re d-brown line, and the surface is thinly clothed with greyish-sandy pubescence. 
The eyes are of tolerable size, though not very unequal. They occupy the whole of the 
width of the upper fore part of the caput, and, when seen from above and behind, aie placed 
the usual two curved lines, the convexities of which are in opposite directions, and enclose 
a somewhat oval area. The hinder row is much the longest, and the fore-central paii are 
rather the largest of the eight. Those of the hind-central pah' are considerably further fiom 
each other than each is from the hind-lateral on its side, the interval somewhat exceeding two 
diameters. Those of the fore-central pair are separated by about half a diameter, and are 
rather farther from each other than each is from the fore-lateral on its side , each fore-lateral 
e ye is separated from the hind-lateral next to it by an interval similar to that which separates 
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