216 Mr. R. I. r 



ococii on 



female ; femora and proximal portion of tibia of legs an J palpi 

 also rather darker. Patella of palp with five pairs of very 

 long spines beneath, and some shorter and thinner intermediate 

 ones ; tibia (penultimate segment) with six pairs of spines, 

 shorter than the diameter of the segment, its lower surface 

 entirely free from small, erect, cylindrical or fusiform bristles. 

 No modified bristles on the fifth sternal plate of the abdomen. 

 Bristles on tarsus of fourth leg as in G. arahs ; flageilum 

 scarcely expanded in its terminal portion, which is longer 

 than the basal portion and evenly pointed. . 



Measurements in millimetres. — $ . Total length 44 ; width 

 of head 13 ; length of palp 54, its patella 17, tibia 13 ; 

 length of fourth leg 72, its patella 17, tibia 13. 



cJ. Total length 44; width of head 12; length of palp 76, 

 its patella 26, tibia 18 ; length of fourth leg ^&, its patella 20, 

 tibia 16. 



Loc. El Kubar. One male and three females. 



For the present it will sufiice to point out that the male of 

 this species resembles those of O. citrinus, Poc. (Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xvi. p. 81), from Jask, and Q. nigri- 

 palpiSjVoc. (Faun. British India, Arachn. p. 144), from Omdra, 

 which are nearly related, in the entire absence of short fusi- 

 form bristles on the lower side of the penultimate segment of 

 the palp. From both it differs in the colouring of the palp. 

 The first-mentioned character serves to distinguish it from 

 Egyptian forms of G. arabs, which, apart from the coloration 

 of tlie palp, it otherwise approaches. The female differs 

 from that of G. arahs and G. citriniis in the equality in 

 thickness between the spines and spiniform setse on the tibia 

 of the palp. 



Genus Rhagodes, Poc. 

 Rhagodes RotJischildi , sp. n. 



^ . — Colour. Mandibles yellowishwhite proximally, becom- 

 ing gradually reddish brown distally ; head black; terga of last 

 two somites of cephalothoraxyellowish white; abdominal terga 

 1-6 black, 7-9 pallid, 10th or anal black, rather paler close 

 to the anus; sides and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish 

 or greyish brown ; palpi and legs uniformly pallid, witli the 

 tarsi and distal half of the tibize (penultimate segment) of 

 the palp and first leg reddish brown ; malleoli and coxae 

 uniformly pallid. Width of head equal to patella +^ the 

 tibia of the palp, to patella + 3 the tibia of the fourth leg, 

 to patella +^ the tibia of the third leg. Palp nearly twice and 

 a half the width of the head in length. 



