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The eyes are of almost uniform size, seated on distinct black spots. The interval 
between the fore-centrals is considerably less than a diameter, and each is very close, but not 
quite contiguous, to the fore-lateral eye on its side. The interval between those of each 
lateral pair is rather less than a diameter of the bind-lateral eye ; the eyes of the hinder row 
are equidistant from each other, and the four central eyes form a square whose anterior side 
is shorter than the other three. 
The legs are long, slender, furnished with hairs and a few longish fine spines ; their 
relative length is apparently 2, 4, 1, 3. The tarsi and metatarsi have some divergent hairs 
of uniform length underneath, but scarcely amounting to a scopula ; and there is a strong 
claw-tuft beneath the two terminal claws of the tarsi. 
The abdomen is of a dull straw-vellow colour. The upper part and sides are marked 
with red-brown spots and markings ; two broken longitudinal lines of these spots on the 
fore half of the upper side enclose a long wedge-shaped marking, which is followed by a series 
of somewhat angular spots of the same hue reaching to the spinners. A few whitish creta- 
ceous spots are scattered along the middle longitudinal line of the upper side as well as on the 
under side. 
Hah . — Neighbourhood of Leh, August or September, 1873. 
90.— Sparasstjs fugax, sp. n. 
Immature female : length 2f lines. 
This spider is closely allied to the foregoing, but is of a much duller hue, the yellow 
portions being suffused with dull brownish. The abdomen is shorter and more convex above ; 
the red-brown spots and markings are more thinly scattered, while the white cretaceous 
spots are larger and more numerous, and spread over the whole abdomen. The femora, 
genua, and tibiae are speckled with small red-brown spots, and the spines are longer. The 
maxillae also have no central brown patch. With these differences the general character of 
the markings is similar to that of Sparassus timidus. 
Bab . — Murree to Sind Valley, between July 14th and August 5th, 1873. 
91.— Sparasstjs flavidtjs, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 10 lines. 
The cephalo thorax is nearly as broad as long, truncated before and constricted laterally at 
the caput ; the height of the clypeus is nearly equal to twice the diameter of one of the 
fore-central eyes. Its colour is yellow, tinged with brownish orange, deepening to red-brown 
on the fore paid of the caput ; and it is thickly clothed with sandy-grey pubescence. 
The eyes are in a somewhat crescent form, in two transverse rows, the hindei one 
the longer and straight, or very nearly so ; the front row curved, the convexity of the eurv e 
directed forwards. They are of moderate size, and relatively differ but little, those of the 
fore-central pair being a little the largest ; the intervals between those of t e hinder row 
are equal ; that between the fore-centrals is more than double that between each and the 
