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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
The sternum is heart-shaped and yellow. 
The abdomen is oral, moderately convex above, though of a somewhat flattened form on 
the upper side ; it is broadest towards the hinder extremity, which is obtuse-pointed, and 
its fore extremity is roundly truncated. The upper part and sides are of a dull yellowish 
hue, thickly covered with somewhat scale-like spots of a silvery whitish colour. Eive im- 
pressed spots form a triangle on the fore half, whose apex is directed forwards. The apical spot 
is surrounded with dull reddish yellow-brown ; and immediately following the last impressed 
spot on each side is a row of three or four reddish yellow-brown blotches, decreasing in 
size as they run backwards, the two rows of blotches converging to the spinners ; these 
last are short and yellow-brown in colour ; the superior and inferior pairs are of equal length, 
but the latter are the strongest ; and at the extremity of the abdomen on each side of the 
spinners is an oblong patch of red- brown. 
The female is altogether lighter coloured than the male ; the abdomen has no markings, 
excepting the normal five impressed spots on the upper side, and the oblong patch (which, 
however, is very indistinct) on each side of the spinners ; the legs also are of a uniform lape 
yellow, and those of the third and fourth pairs are destitute of spines, or at any rate they are 
no stronger than an ordinary bristle. 
Hab. — Murree, between June 11th and July 14th, 1873. 
Genus— XYSTICUS, C. L. Koch. 
80. — Xystictjs ckistatus. 
Xysticus cristatus, Clerck (sub Araneus), St. Spindl., p. 136, pi. 6, tab. 6. 
Sab. — Examples of a spider, which I believe to be of this species, were contained in a 
portion of the collection labelled ‘ Road across the Pamir from Sirikol to Panja and back, 
April 22nd to May 7th, 1874 ; ’ and ‘ Y arkand and neighbourhood, November 1873 ’. 
81. — Xysticus pini, Hahn. 
Hab. — Young examples of this spider were contained in a part of the collection from the 
Sind Yalley, 5th to 13th August 1873, and Hills between Sirkol and Aktalla, 8th to 13th 
May 1874. 
82. — Xysticus maculosus, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 2 lines. 
In form and structure this spider closely resembles Xysticus audax , 331. ; its colours are 
a speckled mixture (both above and below) of white, yellow-white, yellow-brown, dark- 
brown, and red-brown. 
The sides of the cephalothorax are dark-brown, marbled and marked with pale 
brown ; the upper part, consisting of a broad longitudinal band, is yellow-white, 
with pale yellow-brown forwards, and spotted all over with small spots of a darker hue, t’tf 0 
rather distinct parallel lines of the darker yellow-brown running close together from hetw een 
the hind-central pair of eyes to the occiput. The lower margin of the clypeus has a row 0 
strong prominent bristles directed forwards. 
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