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The palpi are short, slender, and furnished with hairs and bristles. The genital aperture 
is small and simple, being of a somewhat oblong form, a little narrower at its hinder than at 
its fore extremity. 
Hab. — Murree, between June 11th and July 14th, 1873. 
73. — Misumena oblonga, sp. n. 
Adult female : length nearly 4| lines. 
The cephalothorax is as broad as it is long ; the marginal constrictions on the sides of the 
caput are strong ; the thorax broader than long. The colour of the cephalothorax is dull 
yellow-brown, with a longitudinal median white line, and a lateral, somewhat zigzag, line of 
the same colour along the middle of each side. The central white line has two or three 
lateral points on each side, and it runs from immediately behind the ocular area, to the thoracic 
indentation : the clypeus projects a little forwards, and its height distinctly exceeds half 
that of the facial space. 
The eyes are small, seated on white tubercles in two transverse rows, in a narrow crescent 
form ; the front row is the shorter and more strongly curved ; the ocular area is compara- 
tively rather small, and the fore-lateral eyes are but slightly larger than the fore-centrals ; 
these last are a little further from each other than each is from the fore-lateral on its side ; 
"while those of the hind-central pair are nearer together than each is to the hind-lateral next 
to it. The four central eyes form very nearly a square whose longitudinal is very slightly 
greater than its transverse diameter. The interval between those of each lateral pair is 
equal to that between the fore and hind-central pairs. 
The legs of the first and second pairs are tolerably long and rather slender : those of the 
first appear to be a little the longest, those of the third and fourth pairs are much 
shorter, the third rather the shortest ; all are of a pale, dull, straw- yellow colour, and are 
furnished with hairs, slender bristles, and spines ; of the last there are two longitudinal 
parallel rows of long conspicuous ones beneath the metatarsi and tibiae of the first and second 
pairs ; the rest of the spines on these legs, and especially those on the third and fourth pairs, 
are small and inconspicuous. 
The palpi are short, slender, and similar to the legs in colour and armature ; the radial 
joint has a long, slightly curved, pointed spine near the base on the inner side, its point 
directed inwards. 
Th Qfalces are moderately long, not very strong, sub-conical, projecting a little forwards, 
and similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
The maxilla and labium are of normal form and similar to the legs in colour, the 
sternum being heart-shaped and of a pale straw-colour. 
The abdomen is elongated, oblong-oval in form, and more than three times the length of 
tfie cephalothorax ; its fore extremity is rather roundly truncated and broader than the 
hinder extremity, the widest part being a little in front of the middle ; its colour is a dull 
straw-yellow, with the sides and a broad, median, longitudinal band pretty thickly spotted with 
w hite; the median band has a largish, elongate, diamond-shaped, dull-brownish, straw-coloured 
Marking on the fore part emitting some short venose lateral lines. The genital aperture is 
suiall and simple, consisting of two round yellow-brown openings placed side by side, and edged 
■with dark reddish-brown. 
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