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occiput, appearing to overwhelm the thoracic portion by its disproportionate development ; 
its sides are perpendicular, and it is divided longitudinally by a duplex, longitudinal, indented 
line. The colour of the cephalothorax is deep red-brown, except two largish oblique, 
somewhat oval patches on either side of the occiput, which are of a clear yellowish-red, and 
a patch on each side of the four central eyes, as well as the clypeus, which are dull reddish- 
yellow. The height of the clypeus is less than half that of the facial space, being equal to 
rather more than two diameters of one of the fore-central eyes. The surface of the cepha- 
lothorax is covered thinly with short fine hairs, and appears to be finely punctuose. 
The eyes are small but not greatly different in size. They are placed in the usual three 
widely separated groups : the central one, of four eyes, is in the form of a quadrangle whose 
hinder side is the longer and its fore-side the shorter. The fore-centrals are slightly larger 
than the hind- centrals, seated on the sides of a slight prominence, and separated by rather 
more than a diameter’s interval. Those of each lateral pair are near together, but not quite 
contiguous to each other, and are placed just above the hinder part of the insertion of the 
falces (looked at sideways). 
The legs are short and not very strong ; those of the fourth pair are distinctly the long- 
est, and those of the third pair the shortest, the others differ but little from each other m 
length ; those of the first pair slightly the longest. Their colour is yellow, annulated with 
light yellow-brown, and they are furnished with hairs and slender bristles only. 
The palpi are short, slender, yellow, and without annuli; they are furnished with hau' s > 
and several spine-like bristles on the inner-sides of the digital joints. ^ 
The falces are moderately long, very strong, roundly prominent near their base in fron 
but retreating and directed backwards towards their extremity, where on the fore side there 
are two adjacent prominences, the larger and more prominent being the inner one of the 
two, and each is furnished thickly with strong bristles, in front of which are some strong^ 1 
teeth. 
The maxillae, labium, and sternum are similar in form and structure to those of the 
preceding species ; their colour is yellowish-brown, that of the sternum being the darkest , 
the apex of the labium and the extremities of the maxillae being much the palest. 
The abdomen is short, but broad and deep, the hinder extremity is broader and deeper' 
than the fore part, and has four rounded prominences; three of these form a nearly straig 
transverse line along the upper margin, the middle one of the three being the largest and a 
little in advance of the other two, while the fourth is half way in a straight line between 
it and the spinners. It is clothed with short fine hairs of a greyish hue, and the upper 81 
is yellowish and brown, with dark black-brown mixed ; the most distinct of the yellow 
ings are in the median longitudinal line, towards the hinder extremity of which are two 
three tolerably well-defined transverse angular bars or chevrons, with the angles direc 
forwards ; and in front of them is a broad longitudinal band of yellow reaching to the 
extremity, and having a dusky brownish, ill-defined stripe along the middle ; there is also^ 
considerable patch of yellow on the lateral margins, mostly towards the hinder part of ^ 
upper side. The sides and under-side are deep brown ; the former are rugulose, anc 
latter has some indistinct, dull orange-yellowish markings ; the process (or epigy ne ) ^ o11 
nected with the genital aperture is not very prominent, but obtuse, and directed backwar 
This spider is remarkably nearly allied to Chorisoopes frontalis, Cambr., from bey ’ 
but is, I think, distinct, although closely resembling it in size, form, and colour. 
Hab. — Murree to Sind Valley, July 14th to August 5th, 1877. 
