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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
The female is rather smaller, but resembles the male in general colours and form ; the 
spiracular plates are of a deep red-brown colour and the genital aperture is small, of a trans- 
verse-oval shape margined with red-brown, and on each side of it is a longitudinal row of 
several short transverse red-brown lines, the rows converging forwards. 
Mab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1873. 
23. — CniRACANTHIUM APPE.OXIMATTJM, Sp. n., PI. II, Pig. 18, ? . 
Adult females : length a little over 4 lines. 
In colours, form, and general structure, this spider is exceedingly like C hir acanthi luni 
adjacens, Cambr. The falces, however, project rather more forward, and the second or termina 
joints of the spinners of the superior pair are longer. The cephalo thorax, legs, palpi, and 
sternum are of a uniform straw-yellow colour; the falces, maxilla), and labium are daik 
brown, the base of the maxillae yellowish ; and the abdomen is of a dull clay-colour, obscurely 
marked with whitish cretaceous-looking spots. The spiracular plates being of the same 
colour as the rest of the abdomen, furnish also a good specific character, those of C. adja- 
cent being dark reddish-brown ; the form and size of the genital aperture are also quite 
different, being very small, of a transverse, somewhat, oblong form, edged narrowly with red- 
dish-brown, and divided across the middle by a broadish pale septum. 
Rah — .Murree to Sind Yalley, July 14th to August 5th, 1873. 
Genus — AGRdECA, Sund. 
24. — Agkoeca debilis, sp. n., PI. II, Pig. 19, ? . 
Adult female : length nearly 2J lines. 
This spider scarcely differs in form and structure from Agroeca brunnea, Bl. 
The cephalolhorax is yellow, thinly clothed with brownish hairs. The normal converging 
indentations are dusky, and the junction of the caput with the thoracic segments is marked 
by a short, fine, longitudinal, red-brown line. 
The eyes are of moderate size, and placed in two tranverse, curved rows, the convexity ° 
both being directed backwards, but the hinder row is the longest and the most strongly 
curved of the two ; they differ but little in size, and are all seated on black spots ; those o 
the hind-central pair are rather further from each other than each is from the hind-lateral on 
its side, the latter interval being nearly about equal to an eye’s diameter ; the eyes of t lil j 
fore-central pair are contiguous to each other, and each is separated from the hind-centia 
eye opposite to it, by an eye’s diameter, and from the fore-lateral on its side by a distinct, bu 
very small, space. The height of the clypeus, in the middle, is equal to the diameter o 
one of the fore-central eyes. > , 
The legs are tolerably long and strong, of an immaculate yellow colour, and are furmsue 
with hairs and spines ; the spines on those of the first and second pairs arc long, strong, uu 
consist of two (parallel) rows beneath the metatarsal and tibial joints ; each tarsus ends ' V1 
two rather weak and apparently non-denticulate claws, beneath which is a small, bluu > 
yellow-brown, corneous-looking projection, furnished with several bristly hairs turne 
upwards in opposition to the tarsal claws. The relative length of the legs appears to 
4, 1, 2, 3. 
