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The falces are short but strong, straight, and nearly perpendicular; they are roundly 
prominent at their base in front ; their fore surface is granulose and bristly, and their colour 
like that of the cephalothorax. 
The maxilla are short, convex, and broad ; their extremities, where they are obliquely 
and rather roundly truncated, being the broadest. 
The labium is short, broad, and of a somewhat oblong-oval form, the apex being very 
slightly indented or hollowed ; the colour of the labium, as well as of the maxilla . is like 
that of the falces. » 
The sternum is heart-shaped, uniformly convex, slightly punctuose, furnished with short 
bristly hairs, and similar to the legs in colour. 
The abdomen is oval, more convex above than in spiders of the genus Clubiona in 
general, and projects over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull clayey-brown colour; 
the fore half of the upper side has a deep brown, longitudinal, central marking, enlarged in 
the middle, sharp pointed at its posterior extremity, and followed to the spinners by 
about six angular deep-brown bars, or chevrons, which decrease in length, from the first to 
the last, just above the anus ; the angles of these chevrons are directed forwards ; that of the 
first touching the pointed extremity of the central longitudinal markings ou the fore half. 
The sides of the abdomen are more or less covered with brown striated markings ; the spinners 
are rather short, moderately strong, and those of the superior and inferior pairs are of about 
equal length. The genital aperture is of peculiar and characteristic form. 
Hab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th; and near Leli, August and September, 1873. 
Family — DICTYNIDES. 
Genus — DICTTNA, Sund. 
27. — Dictyna albida, sp. n. 
Adult female : length less than 1| lines. 
This spider belongs to the Dictyna variabilis (Koch) group. 
The cephalothorax is depressed on the sides and hinder part, and the caput is rounded 
on the upper side, but not raised above the usual level ; it is of a dull yellowish colour, with a 
rather irregular, but distinct, marginal stripe, immediately above which, ou each side, is a 
broad yellowish-brown, longitudinal band; the whole is covered, hut not densely, with coarse 
white hairs ; the height of the clypeus is less than half that of the facial space, being not 
much more than equal to the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. 
The eyes are small and placed in two transverse curved rows near together ; the hinder 
row is considerably the longer ; those of the hinder row are equidistant from each other, the 
centrals being slightly the largest of the eight ; those of each lateral pair are placed oblique- 
ly, and are very near to each other, but not quite contiguous ; the interval between the fore- 
centrals is considerably greater than that between each and the lateral eye next to it ; 
the latter interval being scarcely equal to the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes, which 
are the smallest of the eight ; the interval between the fore- and hind-central pairs is equal to 
the diameter of one of the hind-central eyes. The fore-central eyes form \ ( 'i v nearly a 
square, the posterior side being rather the longest. 
The legs are short and slender, their relative length appears to he 4, 1, 2, 3 ; they are of 
