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verse angular bars ; the surface is also thinly covered with a few prominent dark-coloured 
bristles, and the spinners are short and of a yellow-brown colour. 
Sab. — Murree, between June 11th and July 14th, 1873. 
78. — Dijea suspiciosa, sp. n. 
Adult male : length nearly 2| lines. 
This spider is very nearly allied to Sicea dorsalci, Eabr. (Tbomisus Jloricolens, Blackw.)j 
but may be distinguished by its generally lighter hue and less distinct markings, as well as 
by a quite different structure of the palpi and palpal organs. 
The cephalolliorax is yellow; the sides, the fore part of the upper side of the caput, and 
the normal indentations are strongly suffused with yellow-brown ; and there are a few strong- 
ish bristles on upper margins of the caput. The ocular region has none of the deep rusty 
red-brown suffusion characteristic of Sima dorsata. The height of the clypeus is less than 
half of that of the facial space. 
The eyes are seated on round, whitish tubercles, in two nearly concentric curved rows ; 
the front row being a little the more strongly curved, and thus the eyes of each lateral P air 
are brought rather nearer together than the fore- and hind-central pairs are to each otbei- 
The fore-laterals are largest of the eight, and seated on the strongest tubercles ; the interval 
between those of the hind-central pair is rather less than that between each and the liind- 
lateral on the same side ; and the interval between the fore-centrals is very slightly, if an y" 
thing, greater than that between each and the fore-lateral on its side. The four central ey eS 
form a square whose anterior side is the shortest. 
The legs of the first and second pairs are very long ; those of the first the longer, 
slender, and of a yellow colour, suffused with reddish yellow-brown at the fore extremity oi 
the femora and genua, and at both extremities of the tibiae, but the colouring scarcely amounts 
to annulation ; and the under sides of the femora are speckled with red-brown ; those of the 
third and fourth pairs are much shorter than the others ; the third pair rather the shorter, and 
paler in colour than the rest ; all are furnished with hairs and spines. 
The palpi are short, and pale yellow ; the digital joints suffused with brown. The radia 
joint is shorter than the cubital, and has its outer side, at the fore extremity, produced into 
a tolerably strong and long, tapering, sharp-pointed apophysis, with a distinct angular pom 
about the middle underneath. In Sicea dorsata this point is replaced by a larger and rounde 
protuberance close at the end of the apophysis, which gives it a more bifid form. The 
digital joint is of tolerable size, broad-oval behind, and with a slightly constricted, narro 
extremity, and the outer margin near the base is somewhat sub-angularly prominent ; th® 
palpal organs are simple and encircled by a black filiform spine. The radial and cubita 
joints are furnished with two or three strong tapering bristles, and the digital joint is a ^ 
hairy and bristly. This joint is smaller in Sicea dorsata, and the palpal organs in t a 
species have no encircling black spine. 
The falces are short, strong, straight, sub-conical, perpendicular, and similar in co ou 
to the ceplialothorax. 
The maxillce, labium, and sternum, are of normal form, and of a pale-yellow colour. 
The abdomen is oval, of a rather flattened form ; its upper side is of a dull pale-ye o\^ 
ish hue, thinly pencilled with whitish, and deep brownish, rusty-red spots : the sides o 
