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The legs of the first and second pairs are rather strong and moderately long, those of 
the first pair a little the longer; they are distinctly spotted and blotched with yellow-brown, 
dark -brown, and white on a pale-yellowish ground, the outer sides of the femoral and tibial 
joints being marked, rather distinctly, with a longitudinal white stripe, on each side of 
which is a dark-brown one; the inner sides of the tibial and metatarsal joints are armed 
with two longitudinal rows of strong spines springing from tubercular eminences. The legs 
of the third and fourth pairs are much shorter than the rest, and marked with similar colours, 
but presenting a more annulated appearance. 
The palpi are short, pale-yellow, roughly annulated with deep-brown, and armed with 
bristles and short spines. 
The falces are short, tolerably strong, sub-conical, perpendicular, marbled with pale 
yellow-brown, white, and deep brown, and furnished with some strong prominent black 
bristles. 
The maxillae and labium are dark dull brown ; and the sternum is yellowish- white, dis- 
tinctly speckled with small, deep black-brown points. 
The abdomen is oval, broadest behind, where it is rounded, the fore extremity being 
rather truncate, and projecting oyer the whole hinder slope of the ceplialothorax. The upper 
side is flattish, of a dull pale yellow-brown colour, thickly and minutely speckled with darker 
yellow-brown and whitish, with a few deep reddish-brown spots round the margins, and some 
smaller ones of the same colour thinly dispersed over the whole ; the sides are rugulose and 
whitish, speckled thinly with yellow-brown and deep red-brown, the under side being dull 
yellow-brown, thickly and minutely speckled with small white and red-brown points. 
This spider is nearly allied to Xysticus grcecus, C. L. Koch, from which, as also from 
another nearly allied Egyptian species, X. promiscuous , Cambr., it is certainly distinct ; from 
the latter it may at once be distinguished by the almost total absence of the characteristic 
dentated pattern on the upper side of the abdomen. This is quite distinct in X. promiscuus, 
while in the present spider it can scarcely be traced excepting by a very slightly paler tone 
m the general hue. 
Hah. — Murree, between 11th June and 14tli July 1873. 
83. — Xysticus setiger, sp. n. 
Adult female : length nearly 3 lines. 
The whole of the forepart of this spider is of a reddish, orange-yellow-brown colour. The 
Cc plialothora,x is of ordinary form, and has two longitudinal, darker yellow red-brown bands 
running backwards, one from each hind-lateral eye, the fore part of the median band being 
rather darker than the rest ; and it is covered thinly with long, strong, dark, prominent 
bristles, directed a little forwards. 
The eyes are on small yellowish tubercles, and differ a little from the typical position of 
Xysticus. The fore-laterals being placed farther back, give a stronger curve to the front 
row, and bring the eyes of each lateral pair nearer together; the interval between them in 
tbe present spider being distinctly less than that between the fore and hind-central pairs, 
while in the typical Xyticus it is equal, if not greater. The position of the eyes is thus 
m °re like that of Thilodromus. The four central eyes form very nearly a square, whose 
f°re side is rather longer than the hinder one, and its sides slightly longer than its fore side, 
blie height of the clypeus is nearly equal to half that of the facial space. 
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