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hue; the sides are alternately slashed, or broadly and obliquely striped, with white and 
yellowish-brown. The under side is white, with a large, central, somewhat triangular, dull- 
brownish area in the middle. The base of this triangle is towards the forepart, where it is 
joined by a pedicular patch of the same colour, to the hinder margin of the genital opening- 
This aperture has connected with it a long, strong, very prominent epigyne, divided into two 
parts, a basal part whitish, tumid, and membranous in appearance, and a terminal portion 
blackish-brown, corneous, curved, tapering, directed strongly forwards, and clothed with 
hairs on its fore, or convex, side ; its hinder, or concave, side has a narrow, longitudinal slit or 
duct. 
The spinners are normal, and surrounded, on the sides and behind, with a horseshoe- 
shaped line of six white spots with dull-brownish intervals. 
Sab . — Murree to Sind Valley, July 14th to August 5th, 1873. 
57. — Epeira gurda, sp. n. 
A number of immature specimens, both male and female, of an Epeira which I believe 
to be of an undescribed species, were contained in the collection, though, from their im- 
maturity and the apparently faded state of their colouring, I do not venture to describe them 
in detail. They are very nearly allied to Epeira cornuta , Clerck, the pattern on the abdomen 
being very similar to that spider. The colours, however, are much duller, and the markings 
far less distinct, and the legs are of a uniform dull-yellowish hue. One character alone will 
serve to distinguish it at once from E. cornuta ; the eyes of the hind-central pair form a 
line which is very nearly — indeed, as long — as that formed by those of the fore-central pair ; 
but which in E. cornuta is distinctly (and indeed considerably) shorter. 
ILab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1873. 
58. — Epeira haruspex, sp. n. 
Adult female : length If lines. 
In its general form this spider is much like Epeira pellax ; it is, however, much smaller* 
and differs in many material particulars ; it is also allied nearly to E. agalena , Walck. 
The whole of the fore part, excepting the sternum, which is darker, and the normal 
indentations of the cephalothorax, which are dusky brown, is of a dull yellowish-brown 
colour. 
The eyes are small ; the four centrals form a square, but those of the hind-central P air 
are considerably larger than the front- centrals and are separated from each other by a dia- 
meter’s distance, each being also divided from the hind-lateral on its side by more than 
double that which separates them from each other. 
The legs are neither very long nor strong ; their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3, and the 
tibiae are faintly annulated with reddish yellow-brown ; their armature had been all rubbed 
off, but apparently it had consisted only of hairs and bristles. 
The falces are moderately long, tolerably strong, and roundly prominent near their base 
in front. 
The maxilla; and labium are of normal form, pale yellowish towards their extremities* 
but dark brown on the basal part. 
