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SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
The palpi are short, yellow, and furnished with coarse hairs, principally on the digital 
joints. 
Th efalces are short, strong, straight, nearly perpendicular, but removed rather far back- 
wards, and of a dark yellow-brown colour. 
The maxillce and labium are yellow-brown ; the sternum is yellow, with dusky margins, 
and of a rather elongate-oval form. 
The abdomen is of a short-oval form, rather broader behind, where it is rounded, the fore 
extremity being rather truncated, and projecting over the base of the cephalo thorax ; the 
upper side is black-brown, thinly speckled with yellowish points ; on the middle of the fore 
part is a small, somewhat triangular, pale-yellow patch, produced backwards in a short stalk- 
like form with a prominent blunt point or patch on each side, and followed towards the 
spinners by a series of large, angular lines, or chevrons, of the same colour ; the first of 
these chevrons is of a rather sinuous form, and they all vary in strength and distinctness of 
definition, and have, here and there, a black-brown spot upon them ; the sides are pale-yellow, 
spotted, chiefly on the hinder half, with black-brown, and the under side is also pale-yellowish, 
with a broad, longitudinal, median, dusky-brownish hand. The genital aperture is small, and 
of characteristic form, its colour being yellow-brown, edged with red-brown ; the spinners 
are short ; the superior pair are of a dark-blackish hue ; the inferior pair yellow-brown, slightly 
shorter, but a little stronger, than the superior pair. 
Hab. — Sind Valley, August 1873. 
130. Attus DiDUCTtJS, sp. n. 
Adult female : length rather over 2| lines. 
This spider is nearly allied to Attus benejicus, which it resembles in general colours 
and markings, but may he distinguished at once by the less convex cephalothorax and the 
flatter ocular area. The sides of the cephalothorax also, instead of constituting a broad, well- 
defined yellow hand along almost its whole width, have only an irregular and not very well- 
defined brownish-yellow, narrow, marginal border, the margin itself being black ; the fo re 
central pair of eyes are also much darker-coloured, and the legs are rather less strong, those 
of the fourth pair being distinctly, though not greatly, longer than the first, which last are 
rather the stoutest and are marked along each side with deep brown. 
The colour of the sternum is dark yellow-brown, and the abdomen has a very similar 
pattern to that of A. benejicus, though less distinct, and the form of the genital aperture is 
quite distinct. 
Hab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1873. 
131. Attus auspex, sp. n. 
Adult male : length 2| lines. 
The cephalothorax is broader behind than in front ; looked at in profile the hinder slope 
is long, gradual, and but very slightly convex, running to the third posterior row of eyes, 
from which the caput slopes rapidly downwards to the anterior row ; its colour is yellow- 
brown, deepening gradually to the caput, which is black- brown ; there is a narrow blackis 
