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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
the two fore-central eyes ; and each of the hind-central eyes is separated by a similar interval 
from the hind-lateral and fore-central eyes on its side ; the front row, taken with the hind- 
lateral eyes, form a long, regularly curved line, the eyes of which are near together, and the 
intervals as above explained, not very different. The clypeus is very low, scarcely equalling 
half the diameter of one of the fore- central eyes. 
The legs are tolerably long, but not very strong ; their relative length is apparently 
4, 2, 1, 3. Their colour is yellow ; the tibiae, tarsi, and metatarsi of the first and second pairs 
being slightly tinged with reddish-brown. They are furnished with hairs, bristles, and 
longish dark spines. Each tarsus ends with two curved, pectinated claws, beneath which is a 
small compact claw- tuft. 
The palpi are short and similar in colour to the legs. The cubital and radial joints are 
of the same length, and the radial and digital joints are together greater in length than the 
humeral joint. The radial has, at its fore extremity on the outer side, a s mall , tapering, 
pointed, red-brown apophysis, whose direction is rather upwards. The digital joint is of 
tolerable size, of an elongate oval form, rounded at its base, and pointed at its fore extremity, 
which is densely clothed with a large patch of short, pale mouse-coloured, pubescent hairs. 
The palpal organs consist of a large, very prominent, oval lobe, at the fore extremity of which 
is a slender, coiled, filiform black spine springing from a strongish red-brown corneous process. 
Besides a minute filiform, slightly curved spine behind this coiled one, the large lobe has a 
broadish, yellow-brown, glossy, rather bent fillet running along its outer side, probably indi- 
cating the course of an internal duct. 
The falces are moderately long, strong, somewhat subangularly prominent near their base 
in front, furnished with some strongish prominent bristles in front, and of a dark red- brown 
colour. 
The maxilla and labium are of the normal form, and of a reddish yellow-brown colour. 
The sternum is oval, pointed behind, and its colour is yellow. 
The abdomen is of somewhat narrow-oval form, and moderately convex above, 
colour is a dull luteous yellow, marked, more or less distinctly, with dark red-brown markings 
on the upper side. An elongated longitudinal marking pointed at its hinder extremity* 
occirpics the middle of the fore half ; and on the hinder half are several more or less imperfect 
angular bars or chevrons of the same colour ; the vertices of these chevrons are usually 
obsolete, and their extremities are dilated and run together, so as to form two more or less 
diffused, lateral longitudinal, broken bands, or rows of spots and patches, which converge to 
the spinners : the sides have, at times, also some irregular, oblique lines of red-brown mark- 
ings. The spinners are of moderate length, those of the superior pair being much more 
slender than those of the inferior. 
The female is rather larger than the male, but does not differ in colours and markings- 
The form of the genital aperture is well defined and characteristic, but its peculiarities can 
only be shown satisfactorily by a figure. 
Sab . — Murree to Sind valley, July lfth to August 5th, 1873. 
20. — Cltjbiona laticeps, sp. n., PL II, Eig. 15, 9 . 
Adult female : length 4^ lines ; length of cephalothorax 2 lines, breadth lj. 
This spider is allied to Clubiona deletrix , but may be at once distinguished by 
