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and spines, the latter chiefly on those of the two hinder pairs ; each 

 tarsus ends with two curved pectinated claws, beneath which is a 

 small claw-tuft. 



The palpi are short ; the radial is rather shorter than the cubital 

 joint, and has a small, tapering, pointed, red- brown apophysis at 

 its outer extremity ; this apophysis is rather prominent outwardly, 

 and has its extreme point a little bent, or crooked, upwards ; the 

 digital joint is short, oval in form, pointed at its fore extremity ; the 

 palpal organs are prominent, not very complex, and with one or 

 two small corneous spines at their extremity. The abdomen is pale 

 yellow, clothed with a grey pubescence ; the fore half has a longitu- 

 dinal central yellow-brown bar, on either side of which towards its 

 hinder part is a diffused blackish spot or marking, followed by 

 another of a similar kind ; to these, on either side, succeed, in a lon- 

 gitudinal line, three or four other similar but smaller markings, 

 being the indications of the ordinary transverse angular bars or 

 chevrons, broken off at their angles, showing, however, several 

 broad, strong, angular, pale yellow bars, owing to the ground- 

 colour of the abdomen being lighter within the black markings than 

 on the outside ; which last is also more or less sprinkled with small 

 brownish points, these being less visible along the central line. 

 The sides are marted with four irregular blackish lines or stripes ; 

 that nearest to the fore extremity is horizontal, the others oblique 

 and with a tendency to join with the other black markings above 

 mentioned. 



An adult male was found under a stone at Jerusalem, and an im- 

 mature female in a similar situation at Jericho. I also found an 

 adult male at Alexandria (Egypt) in 1864, and have received it 

 from Spain. 



Gnaphosa excerpta, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 4.) 



Male adult, length 3 lines. 



This species is of ordinary form and general structure, and is very 

 similar in size, general colour, and markings to G. exornata 

 (Koch), as also to the two foregoing species ; but it may be distin- 

 guished from all by the structure of the palpi and palpal organs, as 

 well as by other specific characters. 



The cephalolhorax has the sides much depressed near its mar- 

 gins ; it is yellow-brown marked with strong blackish-brown con- 

 verging lines following the directions of the normal grooves and 

 indentations ; its margins are black, and the surface (especially of 

 the caput) is pretty densely clothed with mixed yellowish and 

 greyish pubescence, the colour of that which clothes a broad mar- 

 ginal band being whitish grey. The eyes are normal in their posi- 

 tion, except that the hinder row appears to be rather straighter than 

 in some other species ; those of the hind central pair are (each of 

 them) almost contiguous to the hind lateral on its side. The legs 

 are rather long, their relative length 4, 1, 2, 3, moderately strong, 

 furnished with hairs, fine bristles, and (on those of the fourth pair) 

 with a few fine spines ; they are of a dull yellowish-brown hue. 



