102 
SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
median, longitudinal, dull yellowisli-brown, somewhat arrow-headed marking, continued in an 
attenuated line of the same colour to the spinners ; a little way from this, on each side, is an 
indistinct, longitudinal broad band clothed with coppery- red-hairs ; the spinners are moder- 
ately long and strong, and of a pale yellow-brown colour. The form of the genital aperture 
is characteristic. 
ILab . — Route from Yarkand to Bursi, May 28th to June 17th, 1874. 
127. Menemerus erigidtjs, sp. n. 
Adult female : length 2\ miles. 
The cephalothorax is short, though distinctly longer than broad, and of the usual flatfish 
form ; the upper side is dark- brown, tinged with yellowish, the caput being the darkest, and 
there is a larger longitudinal patcli of brownish-yellow on the middle ; the sides are yellow, 
with a narrow white marginal border; the whole is thinly clothed with sandy-grey and 
whitish hairs. 
The eyes of the posterior row form a line scarcely, if at all, longer than the anterior row, 
and the middle row is nearer to the anterior than to the posterior one. Those of the anterior 
row are of a dull mother-of-pearl colour, and are divided by distinct intervals ; that which 
separates the central pair is less than that wdiich divides each from the lateral eye next to it. 
The legs are rather short, and not very strong ; those of the first pair are a little stronger 
but distinctly shorter than the fourth pair, if, indeed, they be not also slightly shorter than 
the third, the second pair being the shortest ; they are of a brownish-yellow colour, and are 
armed with a few spines, as well as with bristles and hairs. 
The palpi are short, slender, yellow', and clothed w'ith whitish hairs. 
Tli efalces are short, straight, projecting, and of a yellow-brown colour. 
The maxilla: and labium are rather paler than the falces, and the sternum is similar to 
the legs in colour. 
The abdomen is oval, and of a dull yellowish hue, marked irregularly with brown along the 
sides of the upper part, and with a longitudinal brown stripe along the middle of the fore 
part ; this stripe is bifid at its hinder extremity, and followed by a series of brown, sharply- 
angular bars, some of which run into the brown markings on the sides. The form of the 
genital aperture is characteristic- 
Hub. — Murree, June lltli to July 14tli, 1873. 
Genus — ATTU8, E. Simon. 
128. Attus devotus, sp. n. 
Adult female : length If lines. 
The ceplialotliorax is of a slightly flattened form ; the hinder slope is short, and at about 
an angle of 45°; the forward slope of the caput being slight, and but very little convex ; 
its colour is yellow-brown, darkest on the upper part of the caput, and it is clothed with 
yellowish and grey hairs intermixed; the lateral margins are black, immediately above 
which is a not very broad band of white hairs, and a similar band or stripe runs along the 
middle of the hinder slope to the occiput. The clypeus is very low and retreating. 
