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yellow margined with brown, and with a longitudinal median hand of a rusty reddish-brown 
hue, as broad as the hinder row of eyes, where it begins, hut thence tapers gradually to 
the hinder extremity of the cephalothorax. 
The eyes are in the ordinary position ; those of the hind- central pair are nearer together 
than each is to the hind-lateral eye on its side, while those of the fore-central pair are further 
from each other than each is from the fore-lateral on its side. 1 he four central eyes form a 
square, and those of each lateral pair are seated contiguously and obliquely on a small 
tubercle ; the clypeus is strongly and sharply impressed immediately below the eyes, but 
prominent at its lower margin, and its height exceeds half that of the facial space. 
The legs are rather short, slender, of a pale, dull yellowish colour, with a slight black- 
brown marking beneath the extremities of each joint, and are furnished with hairs and some- 
what spine-like bristles. 
The palpi are slender, short, and similar to the legs in colour and armature. 
Th efalces are not very long nor strong, but a little projecting ; they are of a dull yellow- 
ish colour suffused with brown. 
The maxilla; and labium are of normal form, and similar in colour to the legs ; the 
labium, however, is suffused with brown. 
The sternum is triangular, and its colour is like that of the legs, with a marginal blackish 
line. 
The abdomen is large and globular, and projects considerably over the base of the 
cephalothorax ; it is of an almost uniform chalky- white colour, with the faintest possible 
traces of a longitudinal, median, denticulate band on the upper side, having some oblique 
lateral lines issuing from it; this pattern is rendered just visible by being of a rather clearer 
white colour than the rest ; the median longitudinal line of the upper side has also a dull 
brownish, broken line, from which finer, oblique, lateral lines issue here and there ; the spin- 
ners are surrounded by a dull brownish circular band on which are several rather conspicuous 
white spots. The genital aperture is of a transverse oval form edged with dark brown, and 
placed at the hinder part of a roundish prominence. 
This spider is evidently nearly allied to Theridion simile, C. L. Koch. 
Sab . — Murree to Sind Valley, July 14th to August 5th, 1873. 
38. — Theridion tuberculatum. 
Theridion tuberculatum, Kronenberg, Reise in Turkestan von Alexis Fedtschenko, Moscow, 18/ 5, p. 9, pi. v., fig. 40. 
This little white Theridion may readily be distinguished from T. expallidatum by a small 
sub-conical, somewhat tubercular eminence on the hinder part of the upper side of the abdo- 
men. The cephalothorax has a narrow longitudinal median brown stripe of which the ante- 
rior portion is bifid ; and the abdomen, which is of a dull yellowish- brown colour thickly 
covered with cretaceous- white confluent spots, has an irregular, somewhat sub-dentate, longi- 
tudinal, median, dull brownish band, emitting backwards a few fine oblique lines of the same 
colour. The whole of the fore part of this spider is of a dull pale yellow _ hue ; the legs are 
long, slender, and furnished with hairs, bristles, and slender bristle-like spines. 
Sab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1873. 
39, — Theridion incertum, sp. n. 
Adult male : length 1J lines. 
The cephalothorax is short-oval, slightly constricted laterally at the caput, which is broad 
