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formed by the hind- centrals, but the interval between them is smaller, being scarcely equal 
to a diameter ; and each is separated from the fore-central eye on its side by an equal inter- 
v al ; the eyes of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a tubercle, and are separated by a 
distinct though small interval. The four central eyes form as near as possible a square, and 
the height of the clypeus equals half that of the facial space. 
The legs are moderate in length, tolerably strpng, and of a yellow-brown colour ; the 
femoral joints faintly annulated with a lighter hue. 
Ihe palpi are short, hairy, arid like the legs in colour; the radial is rather longer and 
stronger than the cubital joint ; the digital is of great size and tumidity, its fore extremity 
rather pinched in to a point. The palpal organs are not developed. 
Th ef cilces are straight, strong, and massive, very prominent at their base in front, and 
Project a little forwards ; they are of a deep reddish-brown colour, and furnished with strong 
bristles. 
The maxillce are strong, distinctly curved over the labium, rounded at their extremity on 
fbe outer side, and obliquely truncated on the inner side ; they are of a yellowish colour, 
strongly tinged with yellow-brown along the inner side. 
The labium is of an oblong-oval form, slightly truncated at the apex, and of a yellow- 
brown colour; the apex is tipped with yellowish, and, with the maxillae, is covered with bristly 
bairs. 
The sternum is oval, pinched in to a short, sharpish point behind, and broadly truncated 
before ; it is hairy, like the maxillae and labium, and of a yellow-brown colour, paler along 
fbe middle. 
The abdomen is large, hairy, considerably convex above, mostly so at the fore extremity, 
^here it projects well over the base of the ceplialothorax ; it is thickly spotted, mottled, and 
parked with dull yellowish- white and black-brown markings and spots, presenting a faint 
Uidication of an irregular, elongate, posteriorly pointed, median dark marking, tinged with 
yellow-brown along the middle of the fore half, followed towards the spinners by some 
indistinct, broken, angular bars or chevrons. The spinners are not very long : those of the 
superior pair are three-jointed, the terminal joint being no longer than the one next to it ; 
fbose of the inferior pair are shorter but stronger. 
Sab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1874. 
31. — CcELOTES SIMPLEX, sp. n. 
Adult female : length slightly over 4 lines. 
This species is very nearly allied to Ceelotes tegenarioides , but may be distinguished not 
°uly by its much smaller size, but by the absence of any trace of annulation on the femora of 
the legs and by the small size of the fore-central eyes, which are the smallest of the eight, and 
01,1X1 a line distinctly shorter than that formed by those of the hind-central pair : the inter- 
nal also between the eyes of each lateral pair is rather greater than in C. tegenarioides , and 
the height of the clypeus is less than half that of the facial space. On the abdomen, also, the 
Pattern is more distinct, shewing the transverse angular bars on the hinder-half of the upper 
■side more clearly; the spinners are rather longer, and the genital aperture is a small 
0y al opening at the hinder part of a largish, convex, yellow-brown, somewhat roundish, 
c °i'neous-looking patch. 
Sab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1874. 
