1874.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW DRASSIDES. 397 



The female resembles the male in colours and markings ; the 

 relative length of the spinners, however, differs, those of the 

 superior pair being longer aud stronger in proportion to the in- 

 ferior ones, the length of the former being but a very little less 

 than that of the latter ; the genital aperture is not very large, 

 but of very simple though characteristic form {vide Plate LII. 

 fig. 21, c). 



An adult example of each sex was contained in the collection of 

 Spiders received from Bombay from Major Julian Hobson, Staff 

 Corps. 



Drassus vulpinus, sp. n. (Plate LII. fig. 22.) 



Adult female, length 5| lines. 



This fine species belongs to the group which includes D. sericeus 

 (Bl.), to which it is nearly allied. 



The cephalothorax (which is of ordinary form), and also the legs 

 and palpi, are of a foxy yellow-brown, clothed with fine silky ad- 

 pressed hairs or pubescence of a yellowish-grey colour. 



The falces, maxillce, labium, and sternum (all of which are of 

 ordinary form) are darker- coloured than the cephalothorax, and 

 furnished, in addition, with black prominent bristly hairs. The 

 abdomen is of a dull brownish-yellow colour, thickly clothed with 

 silky yellow-grey hairs, mixed with coarser black ones. 



The exjes are in two curved rows ; the hinder row is the most 

 strongly curved, the curve directed backwards ; and the front row, 

 looked at from above and behind, is curved the same way, but less 

 strongly ; the lateral eyes (on either side) are separated from each 

 other by an interval about equal to the diameter of the fore lateral eye; 

 the eyes of the hind central pair are bright pearly white, oval, oblique, 

 aud rather nearer together than each is to the lateral on its side ; 

 those of the fore central pair are round and about half of an eye's 

 diameter apart, each being also separated by an equal distance from 

 the lateral on its side. 



The legs are tolerably long and strong ; relative length 4, 1, 2, 3 ; 

 and besides a yellow-grey pubescence, they are furnished with other 

 hairs and strong spines, the latter mostly on those of the two hinder 

 pairs. Each tarsus ends with two curved pectinated claws, beneath 

 which is a strong scopula extending over the lower side of the greater 

 part of the tarsal joint. 



The palpi are short, strong, and similar in colour and armature to 

 the legs ; the hairs at the end are rather dense and prevented my 

 seeing the terminal claw, which, if present, must be very short. 



The abdomen is oval, and projects well over the base of the cepha- 

 lothorax ; its colour aud clothing have been remarked upon above. 

 The spinners are yellow-brown in colour, longish, and prominent ; 

 those of the inferior pair are the strongest and rather the largest. The 

 genital aperture is of moderate size and simple form, with a deep 

 red-brown corneous margin (vide Plate LII. fig. 22). 



A single adult example of the female was found by myself in an 

 old building at Cairo in April 1864. 



