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is 1, 4, 2, 3. The palpi are long, strong, similar to the legs in 

 colour, and furnished with coarse hairs. 



The abdomen is of a short oval form, tolerably convex above ; the 

 hinder extremity projects over the spiuners, and the fore extremity 

 over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull sandy yellow- 

 brown colour, thickly clothed in front and on the sides with short 

 coarse yellowish hairs, leaving a bare space along the middle and 

 over the hinder extremity of a pointed form, the point directed for- 

 wards : possibly this bare portion may have been caused by denuda- 

 tion ; but from the regularity of its form I should rather judge it to 

 be a specific character. 



The single example found was under a stone on the skirts of the 

 Lebanon. 



Genus Miltia (Simon) =Enyo (Luc. ad partem). 



Miltia amaranthina, Luc. Explor. en Algerie, Arachn. p. 232, 

 pi. 14. fig. 7. 



The male of this Spider having never yet been described, the fol- 

 lowing notes upon it will not be out of place. It is rather smaller 

 than the female, which it resembles in general form and colour : 

 the palpi are moderate in length and strength ; the radial and 

 cubital joints are short, the latter being the shortest and rather pro- 

 duced in a somewhat quadrate form at its fore extremity on the 

 upperside ; the outer corner of the produced part has a small pale 

 coloured apophysis ; the digital joint is large and of an oval form ; 

 the papal organs are highly developed and very prominent, not very 

 complex, consisting chiefly of a large somewhat rounded white cor- 

 neous lobe encircled, just beneath the margins of the digital joint, 

 with a strong spiny-looking deep-red-browu fillet. 



M. Lucas (Explor. en Algerie, Arachn. p. 232) includes M. ama- 

 ranthina in the genus Enyo, recognizing at the same time its utter 

 want of structural affinity with Enyo, except in the position of the 

 eyes. Walckenaer subsequently formed the family " Incertaines " 

 for it within his genus Clotho, in which he also included Enyo merely 

 from the similarity of the position of the eyes. Dr. Thorell (Europ. 

 Spid. p. 108) expressed his opinion that it ought to be made the 

 type of a separate genus ; and just previously to the publication of 

 that opinion M. Simon (Rev. de Zool. 1869) formed for it the genus 

 Miltia, still, however, retaining it alongside of Enyo in his family 

 Enydes, concluding his remarks in the following words : — " Par la 

 position et nature de ses yeux, ainsi que par 1' ensemble de ses formes, 

 ce nouveau genre ne peut etre eloigne des Enyos ; cependant les 

 pieces de la bouche sont tout-a-fait differentes, et forment uue curi- 

 euse exception dans la famille des Enydes." No two Spiders, how- 

 ever, as it seems to me, could be more different in the " ensemble de 

 ses formes" than M. amaranthina and the typical Enyo — the latter 

 being of a short, very convex form, with long slender legs, the 

 former elongate, flattened, and short-legged ; this, joined to the 

 totally different form of the maxillae and labium, appears to neces- 



