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yellow, witli a dentated marginal band, and a broader lateral strongly dentated one, of a darlc- 
brown colour on each side, leaving a large central star-shaped, or radiated, brownish-yellow 
marking. The ocular area is dark-brown, and the whole surface of the cephalothorax is 
pretty thickly clothed with hairs, many among which are prominent, dark brown, and of 
a bristly nature. 
The eyes are grouped as in T. picta. Those of the hinder row are smaller than those of 
the middle row, but considerably larger than the central pair of the front row ; the eyes of 
the middle and hinder rows form a quadrangular figure whose posterior side is not greatly 
longer than the anterior one, the length of the sides being apparently equal to that of the 
posterior side. The anterior row of eyes is, if anything, slightly shorter than the middle 
row, and the interval between the eyes of its central pair is larger than that between each 
and the lateral eye next to it, to which last it is very close, though not quite contiguous. 
The height of the clypeus is at least equal to twice the diameter of one of the central eyes 
of the front row. 
The legs are moderately long and tolerably strong, particularly the femoral joints ; they 
are of a dark-yellowish colour with dark-brown annuli, and are thickly clothed with hairs and 
long prominent slender bristles, those of the third and fourth pairs being armed with spines. 
The palpi are rather short, hairy, and similar in colour and markings to the legs. The 
radial joint is a little shorter, but of equal strength with the cubital ; the digital joint is dark 
brown at its base, paler at the extremity ; it is long and narrow, being only a little broader 
at its basal part than the radial joint ; its length is equal to that of the radial and cubital 
joints together; the palpal organs are small and simple, being very like those of T. picta. 
The falces are long, moderately strong, straight, perpendicular, and of a deep brown 
colour. 
The maxillce and labium arc of normal form; their colour is yellowish -brown ; the 
extremities of the former and the apex of the latter being of a paler hue. 
The sternum is oval, hairy, and of a dark yellow-brown colour. 
The abdomen is rather broader behind than in front ; it is hairy and of a brownish-yell 0 ^ 
colour ; the markings, which are of the general Lycosa type, and almost exactly similar to 
those of T. picta , are delineated by dark blackish-brown lines and spots. The under side lS 
also more or less marked with the same. 
JE lab. — Yarkand and neighbourhood, November 1873 ; Yangiliissar, April 1874; Yarkand, 
between 21st and 27th May 1874 ; hills between Sirikol and Aktalla, between 8th and 18th 
May 1874; route from Yarkand to Bursi, between May 28th and June 17th, 1874. 
102. — T roc nos a propinqua, sp. n. 
Adult female : length just over 5 lines. 
This spider is very closely allied to T. ruricola, De Geer, but is, I think, certainly of a 
distinct species. 
The cephalothorax is broader behind and narrower before than in T. ruricola. The 
broad, lateral, brown bands, instead of stopping behind the hinder row of eyes, run through 
and include the laterals of both the middle and hinder rows. The median longitudinal yello^ 
band is similarly constricted at the occiput ; but is broader behind that point, and more radi- 
ated than in T. ruricola ; and the two longitudinal brown stripes on the fore part of this 
band are confluent with the sides of the brown lateral bands. 
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