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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
This is in several respects a remarkable spider and aberrant from the generic type, both 
in the form of the abdomen, the height of the clypeus, and the small comparative size of the 
ocular area. I hesitate, however, at present, to form a new genus for it, though it will pro- 
bably be necessary at some future time to do so. 
Hab . — Murree to Sind Valley, between July 14th and August 5th, 1873. 
Genus — SYNE M A , Simon. 
74. — Synema exculta, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 2 lines. 
The cephalothorax is short and broad ; the lateral constrictions on the margin of the 
caput are slight, and the caput is broadly truncated before. The height of the clypeus is 
rather less than half that of the facial space. It is of a dull yellow-brown colour; the clypeus, 
as well as the ocular area and a broad longitudinal band on each side of the upper part, being 
of a deep reddish-brown colour ; that of the two bands being the darkest ; the occiput is 
marked with a somewhat curvilinear, angular, pale-yellowish marking, the angle of which is 
directed backwards. The sides and hinder slope of the cephalothorax are steep, and its 
surface is thinly covered with long, curved, prominent, rather tapering bristles. 
The eyes are on tubercles, in two transverse curved rows occupying the whole width of 
the broad caput ; the hinder row being the longer, and, if anything, slightly the more strongly 
curved ; thus, the eyes of each lateral pair are rather further from each other than the fore- 
central pair is from the hind-central one. The eyes of each row respectively are equi- 
distant from each other; though, if anything, the fore-centrals may be very slightly further from 
each other than each is from the fore-lateral on its side. The fore-laterals are the largest of the 
eight and considerably larger than the fore-centrals. The fore-central eyes form a square 
whose posterior side is longer than the other three. 
The legs of the first and second pairs are moderately long and slender, the second p air 
being perhaps slightly the longest ; they are of a yellow-brown colour, the femora much the 
darkest ; the third and fourth pairs are much shorter, of a pale-yellowish colour, and the 
third pair is slightly the shortest. All are furnished with hairs, slender bristles, and spines. 
The palpi are short, slender, and similar in colour to the third and fourth pairs of legs- 
The falces are short, strong, sub-conical, slightly projecting forwards, and of a dull reddish 
yellow-brown colour. 
The maxillce and labium are of normal form, and of a dull brownish-yellow colour. 
The sternum is heart-shaped and yellow. 
The abdomen is short, considerably convex above, and projects entirely over the hinder 
slope of the cephalothorax ; it is much broadest, and well rounded, towards the hinder extremity* 
and is of a dull yellow-brownish colour; the fore part of the upper side has a few deep ret- 
hrown points, and a diffused marginal border of white cretaceous spots; the hinder purt lS 
much covered with similar white spots arranged in three not very well defined transverse 
diffused, curved bars, the two intervals between the first three being of a deep red- brown colour* 
there are also some markings of the same dark, red-brown hue just above the spinners ; 
sides are rugulose, marked with indistinct reddish-brown streaks following the somew 
oblique course of the rugulosities. The genital opening is simple, and consists of two sffi' » 
round, reddish-brown apertures in a transverse line. 
