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strong, deep-red-brown, obtusely pointed apophysis, which curves 

 upwards and slightly over the base of the digital joint ; there is 

 also a minute red-brown tubercular prominence, near whicb is a 

 long, strong, black bristle, at the extremity, on the upperside of the 

 cubital joint ; and close in front of it is another at the base, on the 

 upperside, of the radial joint ; the digital joint is large, but of 

 ordinary form, and its length is equal to that of the radial and cubital 

 joints together ; the palpal organs are well developed, but not com- 

 plex. The f alces are moderate in length and strength, straight 

 and conical, but prominent near their base in front. The maxillae, 

 labium, and sternum present no deviation from the ordinary generic 



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The abdomen is long-oval in form, furnished, but not thickly, with 



hairs, and with some strongish black recurving bristles at its fore 

 extremity ; the upperside has 4-6 conspicuous (in some examples) 

 yellow-brown, slightly impressed spots, forming an oblong figure, 

 but these are not very visible in other examples ; it is pretty thickly 

 spotted on the upperside with black-brown spots of various sizes, 

 but forming a somewhat regular pattern, consisting of longitudinal 

 and transverse lines, the former converging, the latter running off 

 obliquely on the sides towards the spinners ; these are six in num- 

 ber, long, slender, and very prominent ; those of the inferior pair 

 are the strongest, they are of a brightish yellow-brown colour, 

 and nearly, if not quite, half the length of the abdomen in some 

 examples ; the rest are shorter and slenderer, but of unequal length ; 

 the spinning-tubes at the extremity of those of the inferior pair are 

 very conspicuous ; the underside of the abdomen has only the faint 

 indications of two longitudinal slightly curved lines of dusky dots, 

 commencing near the spiracular plates. 



The female differs only in her shorter legs ; the genital aperture is 

 of an elongate-oblong form, constricted transversely near its middle, 

 or in some examples towards its hinder extremity ; and its margins 

 are of a deep blackish red-brown colour. 



Both sexes of this fine species were found at various places in 

 Palestine, but most abundantly at Jerusalem and near Jericho, 

 underneath stones and pieces of broken rock. It is an exceedingly 

 active Spider, and very difficult to capture without injury to the 

 legs. Its specific name is that conferred upon it by Dr. L. Koch in 

 the MS. descriptions drawn up for his work on the Drassides, but 

 the publication of which (as has been before remarked) is indefinitely 

 delayed. 



Gnaphosa lutata, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 



Male adult, length 3 lines. 



Similar in size, colour, and general structure to G. cambridt/ii, 

 this species is of a somewhat stouter form, and may be at once di- 

 stinguished by the structure of the palpi and palpal organs. The 

 radial joint of the palpus, which is slighter, but not longer than the 

 cubital, is bent and produced at its under and outer extremity into a 

 long, rather slender, and very slightly tapering glossy red-brown 



