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The legs are moderately long, but not very strong, and their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3. 
Their colour is dull brownish-yellow, annulated with darker reddish yellow-brown, and they 
are furnished with hairs, bristles, and strongish, but short, spines. 
The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, moderately long and slender. 
dices are moderately strong, tolerably long, arched in profile, perpendicular, of a 
deep-brown colour, but pale- yellowish at the base, and furnished with bristles in front. 
The maxillce are of normal form, and of a deep-brown colour, pale-yellowish on the 
margin, at their extremity. The labium also is similar in colour, with a pale margin at the 
apex. 
The sternum is heart-shaped and of a deep-brown colour. 
The abdomen is very large, and in its general form and appearance reminds one of that of 
Qyrtophora opuntice, Duf. Its shoulders have each a short, somewhat conical prominence 
also. It projects considerably over the base of the ceplialo thorax ; and when looked at in 
profile, the hinder extremity, which projects a little over the spinners, is nearly as high as 
the fore-extremity. The sides are steep and sloping inwards, and the upper side rather flat. 
The upper side is of a dull cream- white colour marked, clouded, and mottled with brown ; the 
lateral margins of the white area are very strongly dentated, and along the middle of it are two 
very distinctly defined black dentated lines, which beginning near its fore extremity, converge 
towards each other (but do not meet) at the hinder extremity, where they are sometimes 
joined by a transverse blackish line. Along the middle of the fore part of the space included 
by these black dentated lines, which space is frequently darker or more suffused with brown 
than the area outside it, is a somewhat oblong deep brown, marking with two angular points 
on each side of it and a row of white spots along its middle. The fore extremity of the 
upper side has two prominent portions of the white area near the middle ; these are generally 
curved, and enclose a more or less well-defined brown patch bearing a white spot in the 
centre, and in front of this, outside the brown patch, is another larger white spot ; the under 
side is of deep sooty-brown colour, of a quadrangular form, margined by a distinct, broad, 
yellowish- white border, before and on its sides, each of the posterior ends of the border being 
continued on either side of the spinners by two well-defined white blotches, the anterior one 
of which is much larger than the other ; from the middle of the hinder extremity, on the 
Upper side, to the spinners there is generally a longitudinal central yellowish- white stripe ; the 
sides are brown, thickly mottled with dull whitish-yellow. The genital aperture is simple in 
form, and somewhat of a transverse, kidney shape, placed rather behind a slightly prominent 
process from in front of which issues a moderately long, slender, cpigyne, which curves back- 
wards and has its extremity slightly sinuous. There is considerable variety in the markings 
of the upper side of the abdomen in this spider according as the brow T n mottlings are more or 
less diffused, or else w r ell defined. 
Rah. — Murree, June 11th to July 24th, 1873. 
65. — Epeira ? gibbera, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 2| lines. 
Probably this spider will be found some day, on comparison with some other closely 
allied exotic species, to be of a different genus from “ Epeira (sensu stricto), in which event, 
I think, a new genus must be formed for its reception. At present I describe it as an 
aberrant and doubtful form of Epeira, 
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