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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
rounded, but the latter are not prominent, as in several of the species described above ; the 
middle, however, of the fore extremity projects forwards in a strong, blunt-conical form. 
The whole of the upper part, including the upper half of the sides, is of a cream-yellow colour 
marked with two converging rows of linear black spots ; these rows are almost the whole 
width of the abdomen apart where they begin, which is just about half way from the hinder 
extremity to the middle of the fore extremity, and they represent the angular or dentated 
lines so common on the abdomen of the genus Epeira. Eour parallel, longitudinal, dull- 
brownish, venose lines (the outer ones of which curve round and almost meet at their fore 
extremity, and the middle pair are shorter than the outer ones) are included within the two 
converging rows of spots above mentioned, and are also connected by another curved line 
which crosses at the ends of the two middle lines. The remainder of the sides, together with 
the whole of the under part, is of a dull-brownish hue, indistinctly mottled with dull 
whitish-vellow spots ; and four large blotches of white spots form a square between the 
spiracular plates and the spinners. The sides are also marked with some oblique, venose, 
yellow-brown lines. The process, or epigyne, connected with the genital opening is prominent, 
tapering, not very long, obtuse at its extremity, which is curved, directed backwards, and 
transversely rugulose throughout. 
Hah. — Murree, June lltli to July 14tli, 1873. 
60. — EPEIUA PR2EDATA, sp. n. 
Adult male : length lines. 
The cephalothorax is broad and round-oval behind, rather produced and narrow before; 
the forepart of the ocular area projecting over the clvpeus. The hinder part of the cephalo- 
thorax is considerably higher than the forepart, and is well rounded and convex ; it is of a 
brownish-yellow colour, with converging paler stripes, following the direction of the normal 
indentations. On the sides of the caput, near the eyes, are several strong, curved, spine- 
like bristles, directed forwards. 
The eyes are of tolerable size, on the fore part and sides of the extremity of the caput ; 
those of the fore-central pair are the largest of the eight, and are seated on a someAvhat 
tubercular prominence ; the interval between them is equal to, if not a little more than, 
a diameter, and the line formed by them considerably longer than that formed by those 
of the hind-central pair. These latter are on black spots, and near together, the inter- 
val being no more than half a diameter ; the figure thus formed by the four central eves 
is a rectangle, with its posterior side shortest, and its longest transverse diameter less than 
its longitudinal one ; the interval between each hind-central eye and the liind-latcral nest to 
it is equal to rather over two diameters of the former. 
The legs are moderately long and tolerably strong ; their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3- 
They are furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines ; three of the longest, strongest, anc 
darkest of the last forming a transverse row near the slightly incrassated middle part o 
the inner side of the tibiae of the first pair. 
The palpi are short, and similar in colour to the legs. The cubital joint is short, and 
(in profile! a sub-angular form, with two long, strong, yellow-brown, tapering, curved, 
spine-line bristles, directed forwards from its fore extremity on the upper side ; the radia 
joint is very short, but is produced considerably in an obtuse form on the outer side, the . en 
of the produced portion being furnished thickly with strong bristles ; the digital joint is o 
