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double the length of and very much stronger than those of the supe- 

 rior pair. 



A single adult male was found by myself at Alexandria (Egypt) 

 in April 1864. 



Gnaphosa corcyr^ea, sp. ii. (Plate LI. fig. 5.) 



Adult male, length 2\ lines. 



This Spider is of ordinary form and general structure, and is allied 

 nearly to G. plumalis (Cambr.), but may be easily distinguished by 

 the form of the palpi and palpal organs. 



The cephalothorax is yellow-brown, narrowly margined with black 

 and with a broad marginal band of white pubescent hairs ; the in- 

 dentations marking the caput from the thorax are strongly suffused 

 with blackish, as also, though not quite so strongly, are the other 

 normal indentations ; the upper part of the caput is furnished with 

 white pubescent hairs ; the height of the clypeus is less than half 

 that of the facial space. 



The eyes are small, not very unequal in size, and in the ordinary 

 position ; those of the hind central pair are further from each other 

 than each is from the lateral of the same row on its side ; the interval 

 between each lateral and central on its side of this row is greater than 

 the diameter of the lateral. 



The legs are rather short, strong, furnished with spines and hairs ; 

 but these last were nearly all rubbed off in the only example found ; 

 the legs are of a yellow-brown colour, and their relative length is 

 4, 1, 2, 3. 



The palpi are short and strong, and similar in colour to the legs ; 

 the radial is short, but equal in length and strength to the cubital, 

 and its outer extremity is produced into a short, broad, obtuse apo- 

 physis, having several bluntish points at its extremity ; the digital 

 joint is rather large, and longer than the radial and cubital joints 

 together ; it is of an oval form, and has a small prominence near 

 its base on the outer side. The palpal organs are well developed 

 and prominent, but not very complex, consisting of a large cor- 

 neous lobe a little irregular in its outline on the inner side and at the 

 extremity. 



Falces moderate in size, straight, nearly vertical, and of a conical 

 form and dark yellow-brown colour. 



The maxilla, labium, and sternum are of ordinary form, and simi- 

 lar to the cephalothorax in colour. 



The abdomen is of moderate size and oval form, rather truncate 

 before, and not very convex above ; it is of a blackish-brown 

 colour above. Six impressed spots of a pale colour, arranged in 

 two short, longitudinal, curved, divergent rows of three each on 

 the fore half of the upperside, are clothed with whitish hairs ; be- 

 tween these is a shortish dark blackish oblong bar or patch ; and 

 from this to the spinners runs a broadish central pale band, emitting 

 on each side several short slightly oblique pale bars clothed with 

 whitish hairs ; the sides have three broad pale yellow-drab, oblique 

 bands nearly contiguous to each other and running from the 



