1872.] SPIDERS OF PALESTINE AND SYRIA. 227 



The palpi are short, and similar to the legs in colour : the radial 

 and cubital joints are of equal length ; the former has a kind of 

 group of long strong bristles on its inner side, and a not very 

 long, but strong, apophysis from its extremity towards the outer 

 side ; this apophysis curves a little upwards ; and its extremity, 

 which, looked at from one point of view, is broad and obtuse, is 

 from another point sharply hooked backwards ; the palpal organs 

 are neither very prominent nor complex. The falces, maxillae, 

 labium, and sternum, which have, neither of them, any thing parti- 

 cularly noticeable in their structure, are of a dark yellow-brown 

 colour. 



The abdomen is of an oblong- oval form, very slightly broadest at 

 its hinder extremity ; it projects considerably over the base of the 

 cephalothorax, and is of a dull yellow-brown colour, clothed with 

 mixed greyish, yellowish, and blackish hairs and pubescence, with indi- 

 stinct traces of a pattern similar to that in the species above alluded 

 to : there are also numerous closely grouped black recurved bristles 

 beneath the fore extremity of the abdomen : the spinners of the in- 

 ferior pair are long, strong, and curved ; this curvature may be 

 accidental, but I am inclined to think it is not so ; and if not, it is 

 a good distinctive specific character; the superior spinners are small, 

 and only half the length of those of the inferior pair. 



A single example of this species (which was overlooked when the 

 Drassides of the present collection were submitted to Dr. L. Koch) 

 was found under a stone at Nazareth. 



Gnaphosa cambridgii, sp. nov. (Plate XIII. fig. 3, and Plate 

 XV. fig. 2.) 



Male adult, length 4 lines ; female adult, 6 lines. 



The cephalothorax, legs, falces, labium, and sternum are of a 

 general dull reddish sandy-yellow colour, that of the abdomen 

 being pale brownish straw-yellow. The cephalothorax is oval, very 

 slightly compressed on the sides forwards, and margined with black- 

 brown ; the normal grooves and furrows are distinctly marked with 

 dark blackish brown, especially those denoting the junctional line 

 of the caput and thorax. 



The eyes are in two transverse rows ; the upper (or hinder) row 

 nearly straight, the lower or front one considerably curved, so that 

 the eyes of each lateral pair (as in the species of this genus in 

 general) are widely separate ; these latter are the largest, the four 

 central eyes being smaller ; the two centrals of the hinder row 

 are rather further from each other than each is from the lateral 

 eye on its side ; the eyes of the front row are very nearly equi- 

 distant from the other. The legs are long, moderately strong, and 

 well furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines ; these last are most 

 regular and numerous, though not the largest, on the tarsi ; each 

 tarsus ends with two curved, black, pectinated claws. 



The palpi are moderately long and strong, furnished with hairs 

 and strong bristles ; the radial is rather longer than the cubital 

 joint but not so strong ; it has at its extremity on the outer side a 



