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obliquely and contiguously. When looked at from in front, the eye area is in the form of a 
triangle whose apex (at the hind-central pair) is truncated, and whose base is formed by the 
lateral and fore-central pairs, which, from this point of view, are in a perfectly straight line. 
The height of the clypeus is about one-third that of the facial space. 
The abdomen is white ; its fore part, which is broad and has a strongish, pointed, conical 
gibbosity on the upper side at each fore corner, projects considerably over the base of the 
cephalothorax ; these gibbosities are tipped with dark brown. The greater part of the hinder 
half is occupied by a very broad dentated brown band which narrows to the spinners, and is 
itself mottled with white ; the under side is dull brownish, with a curved white stripe on each 
side of the hinder part. 
No doubt some variation in colours, and perhaps in markings, will be found in the adult 
form ; but the above details will, I think, be found sufficient for the determination of the 
species, whether in the adult or immature state. 
Hab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1873. 
66. — Epeiba pellax , sp. n. 
Adult female: length 3| lines, . 
This spider is allied to Epeira bigibbosa, but may easily be distinguised by a difference m 
the relative size and position of the eyes, as well as by its spinous and annulated legs. 
The cephalothorax is dull yellow-brownish on the sides, and the caput has also one or 
two, indistinctly defined, yellow-brown markings, and its surface is clothed with a coarse 
greyish-sandy pubescence. 
The eyes are rather small, of a dull, amber yellowish-brown colour, and do not differ 
greatly in size ; those of the hind-central pair are the largest, and, with the fore- centrals, 
"hich appear to be next in size (though not very much smaller), form very nearly a squaie , 
the fore-side of the square being, if anything, slightly longer than the hinder one : the 
interval between the liind-centrals is equal to a diameter, but that between each of them and 
file hind-lateral eye on its side is equal to at least four diameters of the liind-central eye. 
The legs are rather short and tolerably strong ; their relative length appears tube 1, 4, 2, 
3, though the difference between those of the first, second, and fourth pairs is slight, t en 
colour is yellow, clouded, and irregularly annulated, with dark yellow-brown , they aie a so 
furnished with hairs, bristles, and short spines. _ 
The falces are short and moderately strong, a little prominent near leir Dase in ron , 
they are similar in colour to the cephalothorax, suffused a little with brownis on eir ou ci 
sides. 
The maxilla; and labium are normal in form, and of a pale-yellowish colour, suffused 
^ith brownish towards their bases. 
The sternum is heart-shaped ; the anterior side truncated in a hollow, me. 
The abdomen is short, and broad in front, with a short, roundish, conical protuberance on 
each side of the forepart ; from a little way behind each of these protuberances, a sinuous, or 
sub-dentate, dark-brown line, edged with whitish on its outer side, runs backwards towards 
the spinners ; these lines do not reach the spinners, nor do they meet each other, since ley 
T un nearly parallel during the latter part of their length ; the space included by these lines is 
bottled with white, and contains some dull-brownish, curvi- angular, transverse lines, bisected 
through their angles (which are directed forwards) by a longitudinal median line of the same 
