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The maxilla: and labium are of normal form, and of a brownish-yellow colour, the latter 
being the darker. 
The sternum is heart-shaped, broadly truncated at its fore extremity ; its colour is yellow- 
brown, suffused with deeper brown, furnished with long bristly hairs, and with a kind of 
oval gibbosity at its hinder extremity. 
The abdomen is large and very convex above, projecting considerably over the cephalo- 
thorax, and clothed with short grey hairs ; it is of a pale, dull brownish-yellow hue, marked 
along the middle of the upper side with a series of strong, well-defined, blackish-brown angu- 
lar bars of a W form, the extremities of these lines uniting with oblique lateral lines of black- 
brown spots and markings. 
Sab . — Sind Valley, August 5tli to 13th, 1873. 
51. — Linyphia pusilla. 
Linypkia pusilla, Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr. Vet.-Akad. Handl. f. 1829, p. 214. 
Sab . — Two females of this spider contained in the portion of the collection made at 
Yarkand, May 21st to 27tli, 1874, and on the route thence to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 
18 74, differ in no respect from European exanrples of the same species. 
Famil y—HPUIIlIDUS. 
Genus — META, C. L. Koch. 
52. — Meta mixta, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 3J lines. 
This pretty spider is nearly allied to Meta ( Tetragnatha ) decorata, Bl., but it is smaller 
a ud the abdomen, although its hinder extremity projects a little over the spinners, is not 
drawn out behind into anything of a caudal form ; the fore extremity also is smooth and 
rounded at the shoulders, instead of being somewhat humped or gibbous on those parts ; the 
genital aperture also differs in its form. 
The cephalothorax, legs, and palpi are pale yellow ; the falces, maxilla:, and labium 
rather suffused with brown, or reddish-brown ; and the sternum dark reddish-brown ; the 
°xtremities of the tibiae of the legs are dull reddish-brown. The abdomen is of a cylindric 
0y al form, rather narrower behind than before ; the upper part, and a portion of the sides, 
ar e metallic and silvery in colour, and marked, longitudinally, with five dull brownish lines 
°r stripes. A median stripe, and another on each side of it, not reaching so far forwards as 
the median one, meet at the hinder extremity ; these three longitudinal stripes are connected 
°u either side by three oblique lines of the same colour, issuing from the central stripe and 
running obliquely backwards into the lateral one ; two of them are rather near together, not 
behind the middle of the abdomen ; the third is much nearer the fore part ; and, quite at 
fhe fore extremity, is a transverse, dull-brown, slightly curved line ; the remainder of the 
g ides and the under side are dull yellowish-brown ; and on each side of the under part is a 
longitudinal, slightly bent, silvery stripe from the spiracular openings to the spinners, 
followed by a spot of the same kind close to the outer side of the inferior pair of spinners ; 
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