1874.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW DRASSIDES. 395 



The whole of the fore part, including the legs and palpi, is of a 

 pale unrform straw-colour, thinly clothed wkh silky ha r the 



vellowS 1 A 6 "? a Uttle dark6r aJd ddler ""ts hue/clothed wifh 

 yellowish fine hairs, some coarse bristly ones being turned upwards 

 over the fore part. The female resembles the male in colX and 



f/ZactSr' " krger ' "' thC f ° rm ° f thC S eQital a P erture 

 The legs (in both sexes, but most conspicuously in the female) 

 terminate with a small claw-tuft beneath the terminal tarsal cTaws 

 and a scopula beneath the whole length of the tarsi and rnlttTl' 



dria Fcvn 6 K amP u '" I SC m W3S f0Uad Under stones at Alexan- 

 dria, .Lgypt, by myself, in April 1864. 



Drassus astrologus, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 20.) 



Adult female, length 4% lines. 



The whole of the fore part of this Spider is of a brightish yellow 

 colour, the falces being slightly tinged with reddish bro^wn, and hi 

 abdomen being of a dull pale whitish yellow 



The cephalothorax is of ordinary form, but rather short and small 

 m proportion to the abdomen, which is more than double its len-th • 

 the normal grooves and indentations are slightly dusky, and a short 

 red-brown line indicates the thoracic junction ; the height of the 

 clypeus is less than half that of the facial space 



The eyes are placed in two transverse curved rows (the curve 

 directed backwards); the front row is the shortest and least curved • 

 the eyes of the hinder row are as nearly as possible equidistant from 

 each other ; those of its central pair are oval, but not oblique ; the 

 eyes of the fore central pair are the largest of the eight, round, and 

 separated from each other by half of an eye's diameter; these 

 are dark ; all the rest are pearly white, but have black veins ; each 

 fore la eral eye is, as nearly as possible, contiguous to the fore central 

 nearest to it; the interval between the eyes of each lateral pair is 

 equal to about half the diameter of the hinder one ; the four central 

 eyes form a trapezoid whose transverse is less than its longitudinal 



The '.legs are neither very long nor strong ; they are furnished with 

 a few hairs and spines; each tarsus ends with two curved pectinated 

 claws, beneath which is a scopula, extending backwards under a part 

 or the tarsal joint. ^ 



The falces are of ordinary form, but small, vertical, and a little 

 prominent near their base in front. 



The maxilla, labium, and sternum are of normal form. 



The abdomen is large, oval, and considerably convex above It is 

 of a uniform dull pale whitish yellow colour, clothed with but few 

 hairs, scarcely any unless they had been rubbed off. On the fore half 

 of the upperside are the usual six impressed spots, not very distinct 

 in two opposed longitudinal curved rows of three each The 

 spinners are tolerably long, those of the inferior pair bein» the 

 strongest • the genital aperture is yellow-browu in colour, sfmple 

 of tolerable size, and of a somewhat oblong form. ' 



