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derates ; the legs are yellowish, thickly annulated with black-brown ; 

 the palpi of the male have a small transversely oblong black spot on 

 the upperside of the radial joints, and the palpal organs are much 

 simpler in structure than in CE. teliger, though well developed and 

 prominent ; the position of the eyes appeared to be nearly the same. 

 Adults and immature examples of both sexes were found on stones 

 and rocks at Hasbeiya,and also at the foot of the Lebanon range near 

 Ain Ata ; immature examples of, I believe, this species were also found 

 at Jerusalem. It is nearly allied to a Madeiran species, CEcobiu.s 

 navus (BL), of which only the female has been described, and which 

 appears to be more closely and thickly mottled and marked with 

 black and white on the abdomen, and more distinctly annulated on 

 the legs. 



(EcobitjS albipunctatus, sp. nov. 



The female is similar to CE. trimaculatus ( $ ) in size and form ; 

 but the cephalothorax is rounder. The abdomen is of a uniform 

 black, marked above with a few minute white spots symmetrically 

 arranged, though rather differently in the two examples found. 

 Close above the spinners is a larger white spot of a somewhat dia- 

 mond-shape ; the legs and palpi are yellow, broadly and very 

 distinctly and regularly annulated or, rather, banded with black. 



Although nearly allied to CE. trimaculatus, it is certainly a di- 

 stinct species ; the fringe of bristly hairs surrounding the anus is 

 of a well-marked character. 



Two adult examples on a rock near Damascus. 



Genus Clotho (Dufour). 

 Clotho limbata, Koch, Die Arachn. x. p. 89, pi. 350. fig. 81 G. 



An immature female of this fine species was found under a piece 

 of detached rock near Jerusalem. 



Clotho septjem punctata, sp. nov. 



Male (not quite adult), 4 lines long. 



This species is similar to C. limbata in form and structure. The 

 whole of the fore part of the Spider is yellow, but of a clearer, 

 brighter hue than in that species ; the abdomen is dull black, but 

 the upperside, instead of being surrounded by a continuous border 

 of a whitish-yellow colour, has in its place a marginal row of seven 

 large yellow spots ; four of these form nearly a square on its fore 

 half, and the three others are in a triangle above the spinners, the apex 

 directed backwards. It is possible that in some examples these 

 spots may become nearly confluent, and so form a band very similar 

 to that on the abdomen of C. limbata ; but still some other specific 

 characters, such as a slight difference in the relative position of the 

 eyes, and the less dense armature of the legs with hairs, bristles, 

 and fine spines, seem to show that it is quite distinct from that species, 

 of which six adult examples found in 18G4 at Alexandria (Egypt) 



