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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
The palpi present an easily observed difference from those of Oxyopes jubilans both in 
the radial and digital joints. The former is not enlarged on the outer side, but is, on the con- 
trary, rather excavated there, with a somewhat corneous, red-brown ridge just behind the 
excavated part : the radial joint is also somew'hat angularly prominent underneath towards 
the inner side. The digital joint has its sliort-oval, posterior portion of a darker hue, and 
more angularly prominent at its base on the outer side. The anterior, or beak-like, portion is 
also distinctly longer than the oval part, and terminates in a sharpish and somewhat corneous 
point. 
The legs have the femoral joints of the third and fourth pairs as distinctly marked with 
one (if not two) longitudinal blackish -brown lines as the whole of the first and second pairs. 
The abdomen has on the upper side a longitudinal, median, tapering, rusty-reddish band, 
at the fore part of which the normal elongate marking, of a somewhat spear-headed form 
and yellow colour, is visible. 
Sab . — Found at the same time and in the same locality as 0. jubilans. Tinali ; route 
from Murree to Sind Valley, July 19th, 1873. 
121. Oxyopes kejecta, sp. n. 
Adult female: length rather less than 3§ lines. 
This spider is nearly allied to Oxyopes ( Sphasus ) gentilis, C. L. Koch. It may easily 
be distinguished from the two foregoing species by its shorter legs, as well as by its shorter, 
stouter form, and by the short cephalothorax, which has the sides and hinder slope very steep, 
and the normal indentations very slightly marked, so that the divisional line between the 
thorax and caput is scarcely visible. The colour of the cephalothorax is brownish-yellow, 
paler in the ocular area and at the occiput ; it is indistinctly marked in the median longitu- 
dinal line, as well as on the sides, with blackish-brown ; there are also two slightly curved 
lines, of the same colour, running down from the two foremost eyes over to the middle of 
each of the falces, and continued over them in a slightly sinuous form, but stopping some- 
what considerably short of their extremity. 
The eyes arc on conspicuous black blotches, those of the third row are considerably nearer 
to those of the second than to those of the fourth (or posterior) row. The length of the two 
last (2nd and 4th) rows are exactly equal, though, owing to the difference in the size of the 
eyes, the interval between those of each row is different. The height of the clypeus is rather 
less than half that of the facial space. 
The legs are rather short, and their relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3. They are armed with 
long spines, and their colour is yellow, the femora being marked underneath with two long 1 ' 
tudinal parallel, blackish-brown lines. 
The palpi are similar to the legs in colour, rather long, slender, and armed with a few 
strong spine-like bristles. 
The f aloes are not very long nor strong; they are of a subconical form, straight, and 
perpendicular; their length is less than the height of the facial space, and their colour is like 
that of the cephalothorax, with a longitudinal blackish-brown line from the base to two-thir 
of the distance towards their extremity. 
The maxillce and labium arc of normal form, and of a light brownish -yellow hue. 
