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pair are rather wider apart in comparison with the rest ; and the ocu- 

 lar area is less extended. 



The female resembles the male, and the genital aperture is very 

 similar to that of D. lapidicolens, $ , though a difference is observ- 

 able on comparison, which is yet difficult to give by a description. 



An adult male was found under a stone on the plains of the 

 Jordan ; and an adult of each sex in an old ruined mud wall near 

 Cairo, Egypt, in 18(i4. 



Drassus scrutatus, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 16a.) 

 Male adult, length 3f lines; female adult, length 4| lines. 

 This Spider is of ordinary form and general structure. The cepha- 

 lothorax is of the deepest black-brown colour tinged with red. The 

 eyes are small and not easy to be well seen ; they are in two rather 

 short transverse nearly straight, parallel rows ; looked at from in front 

 the foremost row is curved, the curve directed upwards ; the eves of 

 each lateral pair are as far from each other as those of the fore cen- 

 tral pair are from those of the hind central pair ; these latter are 

 oval, oblique, and each is very near (almost contiguous) to the late- 

 ral nearest to it of the same row ; the eyes of the foremost row are 

 very near, but apparently not quite contiguous to, each other. The 

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

 and they are furnished with hairs, and a few spines on the tibise and 

 metatarsi of the two hinder pairs ; their colour is dark black-brown 

 tinged with greenish, the tarsi and metatarsi being paler, and of 

 a dark yellowish brown. The palpi are short and of a deep blackish- 

 brown colour ; the radial joint is shorter than the cubital, and has a 

 not very large, pointed apophysis at its outer extremity, its inner ex- 

 tremity being also rather spreading or prominent ; the digital joint 

 is large and oval, longer than the radial and cubital joints together; 

 the palpal organs are well-developed and moderately complex, with 

 closely compacted corneous spines and prominences, a portion of 

 which, towards their extremity on the outer side, is quite white, the 

 rest being black and red-brown. The fakes are rather long and 

 strong ; they are prominent at their base in front, and project for- 

 wards. The maxillee are exceedingly strong at the insertion of the 

 palpi, and their transverse impression is strong and oblique. The 

 sternum is glossy and thickly dotted with minute punctures ; these 

 parts, with the labium, are of a deep brown tinged with yellowish. 

 The abdomen is of a rather narrow oblong-oval form and of a deep 

 black colour tinged with green, and is slightly hairy ; the spinners 

 are long, strong, and prominent ; those of the inferior pair are longer 

 than those of the superior. The female resembles the male in co- 

 lours and general characters. 



Adults of both sexes were found under stones on the plains of the 

 Jordan. 



Drassus omissus, sp. nov. (Plate XV. fig. 17.) 



Female adult, length 3| lines. 



The general structure and form of this Spider is of ordinary cha- 



