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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
The legs do not differ greatly in length ; they are of a yellow-brown colour, deepening 
gradually to deep red-brown on the tarsi. They are indistinctly annulated with a deeper hue ; 
but this annulation is generally lost more or less in adults, being pretty distinct in young 
examples. The tarsi and metatarsi are furnished beneath with a thin scopula ; all the legs are 
tolerably thickly furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines, and the inferior tarsal claw is very 
small and sharply bent downwards, being not easy to distinguish in the tuft of hairs which 
surrounds it ; the two upper claws are strong, curved, and armed with about five denticula- 
tions. 
The palpi are short, of a deep red-brown colour, similar to the legs in their armature, 
and terminate with a curved claw. 
The falces are tolerably long, strong, perpendicular ; their basal half in front is roundly 
protuberant, smooth, strong, and of a very dark rich red-brown colour, yellowish red-brown 
at the extremity. 
The maxillae and labium are rather less deep and rich in colours than the falces. 
The sternum is roundish-oval, pointed behind and truncate before, and of a reddish 
yellow-brown colour. 
The abdomen fits pretty close up to the steepish hinder slope of the cephalothorax ; it * s 
broader behind than before, this form becoming intensified in adults that have deposited their 
eggs. In adults, the abdomen is of a deep-brown colour, palest underneath, and clothed with 
a short, somewhat sandy-grey pubescence, besides longer prominent hairs ; and on the f° re 
half of the upper side is a yellow, longitudinal, median,’ somewhat tapering stripe. In mi' 
mature specimens, the abdomen is yellow-brown, marked with darlc-brown, shewing the yellow 
stripe on the fore-half of the upper side, as well as some angular bars of the same colour 
between it and the spinners. These are short, compact, the inferior stronger than, but of equal 
length with, the superior pair. The genital aperture consists of two somewhat roundish 
openings, one on each side, at the hinder part of an oval prominence. 
This spider is an extremely interesting form, and appears to be an abundant species- 
Some of the examples had large, round, dark-brown lycosiform bags of eggs attached by 
silken fastenings to their spinners. 
Sab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1873. 
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Genus — OCT ALE , Sav, 
98, — OCTALE RECTIFASCIATA, Sp. n. 
Immature male : length nearly 6 lines. 
The cephalothorax, legs, falces, and other fore parts of this spider are of a dull yellow- 
brown colour. A broad, dark yellow-brown, median band, edged with a marginal border o 
white hairs, runs throughout, and includes the ocular area. This band is very distinct an 
its margins are parallel to each other. , 
The eyes are in the ordinary position ; the anterior row is equal in length to the interva 
between the two eyes of the posterior row ; it is curved, the curve directed backwards, and i s 
four eyes are small and do not differ greatly in size ; the two lateral ones are smallest, an > 
being each seated in front of a dark tubercle (the tubercle itself being in a straight line wi 
the two central eyes), give to the row the appearance at first sight of being straight, but, as 
above stated, the row is in reality curved, its eyes being equidistant from each other, a 
