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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
Kashghar, December 1873; between Yangihissar and Sirikol, March 1874; Yangihissar, 
April 1874 ; on the road across the Pamir from Sirikol to Panja and back, April 22nd to 
May 7th, 1874; hills between Sirikol and Aktalla, 8th to 18th May 1874 ; Yarkand. 21st to 
27th of May 1874; road from Yarkand to Bursi, May 28tli to June 17th, 1874. 
112. Lycosa stellata, sp. n. 
Adult female : length from 4 to 5| lines. 
The cephalothorax of this distinct spider is of a brown colour, and clothed with a 
short sandy-grey pubescence ; there is a large, very distinct, star-shaped or radiate yellow- 
ish marking at the. occiput, divided longitudinally by a dusky red-brown line, strongish at 
each end, and produced before into an obtuse, somewhat transverse, oblong marking a 
little way behind the ocular area, notched at its fore-margin, and often marked with the bifid 
continuation of the bisecting line on the stellate portion ; there is also a pale yellowish sub- 
marginal, and generally broken, band on each side ; these markings, seen very distinctly on 
immature examples, are more or less obscured by the pubescence in adult specimens. 
The eyes of the foremost row form a line distinctly shorter than the middle row, and 
its central pair are distinctly larger than the laterals, and are divided by an interval larger 
than that which separates each from the lateral eye on its side ; the height of the clypeus 
very little, if at all, exceeds the diameter of one of the fore-central eyes. The ocular area 
appears to be broader behind than it is long, and the eyes of the middle row are considerably 
larger than those of the hinder one, forming a line nearly about equal to that formed by the 
laterals of these rows. 
The legs are rather long, tolerably strong, of a yellowish hue, and pretty distinctly 
annulated with dark brown ; they are furnished with hairs and spines, and the colour and 
markings are liable (in adults) to be obscured more or less by a rather dense, short, sandy- 
grey pubescence ; their relative length is 4, I, 2, 3. 
The palpi are similar in colour and armature to the legs. 
The falces are long, strong, straight, and perpendicular : they are of a reddish-yellow- 
brown colour — red-brown at the base and extremities in front, and furnished with numerous 
long, prominent bristles. 
The maxillae are yellow-brown, and the labium deep brown with a pale-yellowish apex. 
The sternum is deep brown, clothed with grey pubescence. 
The abdomen is of a blackish-brown colour on the upper side. The normal longi- 
tudinal marking on the fore half is indicated by broken, surrounding, submarginal, reddish- 
yellow markings, and its posterior extremity is truncated : following it is a series of opposed, 
oblique, yellowish markings, these being the broken portions of the normal angular bars, which 
are, however, sometimes perfect ; and each bar contains a black spot : outside these angular 
bars is, on each side, a longitudinal row of yellowish spots. The sides are brownish-yellov , 
spotted and marked with black-brown ; and the under side is also brownish-yellow, withou 
any markings. The genital aperture is of a characteristic form, and its colour is red-brown. 
The male resembles the female in colours and markings, but is rather smaller. 
Sab. — Ydrkand and neighbourhood, November 1873 ; Kashghar, December 1873 ; Yangi- 
hissar, April 1874; on road across the Pamir from Sirikol to Panja and back, April 22nd to 
May 7th, 1874 ; hills between Sirikol and Aktalla, 8th to 13th of May 187 4 ; Yarkand, 2 s 
to 27th May 1874 ; Yarkand to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 1874. 
