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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
these two sub-abdominal stripes are, in Meta decorata, Bl., replaced by the whole of that part 
being silvery, whereas the intermediate space between the silvery stripes, in the present 
spider, lias only a few silvery specks on its fore half. The space between the spinners and the 
upper side has also some silvery spots upon it. 
This spider is also nearly allied to Meta quinquelineata, Keys (from Bogota, S. Amer.), 
hut is, I think, certainly of a distinct species. It is also distinct from another nearly allied 
(and undescribed) species received from Bombay from Major Julian Hobson. 
Sab. — Murree, June iltlito July 14th, 1877. 
Genus — TETRAGNA THA , Walck. 
53. — Tetragnatha Extensa. 
Tetragnatha extensa, Linn., Syst. Nat. Ed. 10, i, p. 621. 
Several specimens, which I believe to be of this species, were contained in the collection. 
Hab. — Kashghar, December 1873; Sind Valley, August 5th to 13th, 1873 ; Yarkand, 
May 21st to 27th, 1874; and route from Yarkand to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 1874. 
Genus — EVEIRA, Walck. 
64. — Epeira tartarica. 
Epeira tartarica, Kronenberg, Rei.se in Turkestan v. Alexis Fedtschenko, Moscow, 1875, p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 1. 
Adult and immature females were contained in the collection. 
Jlab. Neighbourhood of Leli, August and September 1873. 
55.— Epeira bigibbosa, sp. n. 
Immature female : rather over 1 line in length. 
Although it is very young, I think this spider is of a different species from several with a 
protuberance or gibbosity on each side of the fore extremity of the abdomen already de- 
scribed by different authors. 
The whole of the fore part is of a dull yellowish hue, except the sternum, which is 
yellow-brown; the cephcdothorax is suffused with yellow-brown in the indentations by which 
the union of the caput and thorax is indicated, and has a somewhat triangular patch of a 
cream-white colour at the occiput. 
The legs are rather short and moderately strong ; their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3, and 
they are furnished with hairs and bristles only. 
The eyes are on slight dark tubercles ; those of the hind-central pair are the largest of the 
eight, and considerably larger than the rest, and are divided from each other by a diameter s 
interval ; the space which divides each from the hind-lateral on its side being double, if not 
more, of that diameter : those of the fore-central pair are less than half the size of the 
hind-centrals ; they are separated from each other by two diameters’ interval, but yet form a 
line shorter than that formed by the hind-centrals. The four central eyes form a square whose 
oremost side is rather shorter than the rest ; those of each lateral pair are placed very 
