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SECOND T AllK AND MISSION. 
mity is prolonged into a more or less distinct median line to the spinners, and gives off on 
eacli side various oblique lines and markings, forming some tolerably distinct, angular, yellow 
bars of different sizes, and some of which have a dark-brown spot at tlieir extremities. There 
is a tolerably clear, marginal yellow space round the normal marking on the fore half. The 
under side is almost all occupied by a broad longitudinal light-brown band. 
The genital aperture is small, but of characteristic form. The spinners are very short, 
but those of the superior pair are stronger and rather longer than those of the inferior. An 
immature male resembled the female in colours and markings. 
JELab . — Yarkand and neighbourhood, November 1873; Kashghar, December 1873; 
between Yangihissar and Sirikol, March 1871 ; Yangihissar, April 1874 ; Yarkand, 21st to 
27th May 1874, and Yarkand to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 1874. 
Fami ly - &I> II ASIDES. 
Genus — OXTOPES y Latr. 
119. OxYOPES JUBILANS, Sp. n. 
Adult male : length rather more than 3 £ lines. 
This spider is nearly allied to Oxyopes (Sphasus) lepidus, Blackw., of which the female 
only has yet been described ; the latter differs, however, from the female of the present spe- 
cies in being of a more robust form and in having shorter legs, as well as in the abdominal 
markings. 
The general form and appearance are similar to those of most others of the genus ; the 
cephalotliorax is of a brownish-yellow colour, and the normal indentations are distinctly 
marked. The ocular area, and the middle of the clypcus are clothed with grey hairs ; a fine 
brown line runs obliquely along t. e margins of the upper side, and so downward to the 
lower corners of the clypeus ; two others run, one from each of the two foremost eyes, nearly 
perpendicularly to the falces (to the extremity of which they are continued), bisecting them 
in front. There are also two parallel brown lines along the middle of the cephalotliorax, not 
reaching further forward than the occiput, and less distinct in the male than in the female ; 
the eyes are on black spots and in the usual position, six posterior ones forming a transverse 
hexagonal figure whose sides scarcely differ in length; they may be also taken as in four 
transverse rows of two each. Those of the foremost row are very minute and separated from 
those of the next row by an eye’s diameter. Those of the second row are the largest of the 
eight or nearly so, and are separated by an interval of one diameter, both from each other, 
and from the eyes of the third row ; this row is considerably the longest, and the fourth row 
is slightly longer than the second, its eyes being rather further from each other than each is 
from the lateral of the third row on its side. 
The logs are long and slender, their relative length seems to be 4, 1, 2, 3; they are of a 
yellow colour, and are armed with numerous long spines. The femora of the first and second 
pairs have longitudinal brown lines on the under side, a faint trace of two only of these 
existing on the femora of the third and fourth pairs. 
The palpi are short, similar in colour to the legs ; the cubital joint is very short with 
but a very slight angular prominence at its fore extremity on the upper side ; the radial joint 
is much stronger than the cubital ; it is strongly tinged with yellow-brown, much enlarge 
