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lations ; they arc furnished with hairs and spines, but have no scopula beneath the tarsi and 
bietatarsi. 
The palpi are similar in colour and markings to the legs. 
The maxilla:, labium, and sternum are of ordinary form, and of a yellow-brown colour. 
falces are also of a similar, colour, rather long, powerful, and perpendicular, and fur- 
bished with a few bristles in front. 
The abdomen is a little wider behind than, in front, its colour is yellowish, clothed, but 
n °t very densely, with a few greyish, and a few longer, coarser brown hairs ; there is, along 
ea °h lateral margin of the upper side, a broad dentated brown band, from the lower side 
°f which two or three oblique, but very regular, rows of brown spots traverse the sides ; along 
the middle of the fore half is the normal marking of a deep brown colour edged with 
black, with a prominent angular point on each side, and truncate at its posterior extremity, 
yhich merges in the first of a series of broadish, angular, brown chevrons ; these decrease 
ib size as they approach the spinners ; the point of each chevron, which is (as usual) directed 
forwards, touching the inside of the angle of the chevron in front of it. The under side is 
immaculate. 
Sab. — Neighbourhood of Leh, August or September, 1873. 
109.— Tarentula inimica, sp. n. 
Adult female : length rather more than 6 lines. 
The cephalothorax is yellow-brown, with a broad longitudinal band, on each side, of a 
darker hue; the whole covered with a short sandy-grey pubescence. The clypeus is low, 
bot much exceeding in height the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. The eyes of this 
J’ow are placed on somewhat of a ridge, making this part look prominent when seen in profile. 
The facies is low. > _ 
The eyes occupy an area about equal in length and breadth. The front row is distinctly 
shorter than the middle one ; its eyes are very small ; the centrals are but slightly, if at all, 
lar ger than the laterals, and the interval between them is greater than that between each 
a bd the lateral eye on its side. The eyes of the middle row arc much larger than those of 
fhe posterior one, and are separated by slightly over a diameters interval, the hinder row is 
considerably longer than the middle one. . 
The legs are tolerably strong, but not very long; those of the fourt l pan are le onges , 
| he rest not varying very much ; they are of a yellow-brown colour, and are furnished with 
ha irs and spines ; the tarsi of the first and second pairs have a very tlnn scopula on their 
bbder sides. 
The palpi are short, but similar in colour to the legs. 
The maxilla and Icimm aye of a rich deep red-brown colour; the former haye then- 
extremity, and the latter has its apex, pale yellow. _ . .. , 
The sternum is oval, somewhat truncated at is anterior ex remi y, an simi r m co oui 
to the maxilke. . , , 
The abdomen is of a short-oval form considerably convex above; it is of a reddish-brown 
colour mottled with much clearer reddish spots; the normal longitudinal macula on the 
f °re half of the upper side is large, considerably prominent past the middle on each side 
a bd truncated at its posterior extremity ; it is of an obscure brown hue, indistinctly margined 
