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An adult male was found on the plains of the Jordan, and an im- 

 mature female at Jerusalem, under stones; also, in 1864, an adult 

 and an immature male with an immature female at Cairo ; this last 

 adult male, however, was much smaller, and (as were also all the 

 Egyptian examples) of a darker colour than those found in Palestine. 



Melanophora picina, sp. nov. (Plate XVI. fig. 20.) 



Female adult, length 4 lines. 



This species is larger than M. lata, which it resembles so exceed- 

 ingly closely in form and structure, that, but for Dr. Koch's opinion, 

 I should have hesitated to separate it from that species ; its colours, 

 however, are darker, the cephalothorax, legs, and other fore parts 

 being deep brown tinged with yellowish, and the legs also with a 

 blai kish dusky hue ; the sternum is thickly marked with small punc- 

 tures ; and there is no trace of a coriaceous yellow-brown patch on the 

 fore margin of the abdomen. The labium is of the same form as 

 that of M. lee/a. The genital aperture is not large ; it is of a somewhat 

 subtriangular form covered by a sort of flap of a blunt-angled dia- 

 mond-shape ; in front of eacb fore corner of the aperture is a rather 

 conspicuous round, glossy, corneous kind of boss, of a reddish-yellow 

 colour. 



An adult female of this species was found under a stone on the 

 plains of the Jordan — and another in a similar situation near Alex- 

 andria, Egypt, in 1864. 



Melanophora carbonaria, sp. nov. (Plate XVI. fig. 21.) 



Male adult, length 2 lines. 



This Spider is of a deep black colour, except the legs, palpi, falces, 

 maxillae, and labium, which are of a more or less deep yellow- brown. 

 In form and structure it is of the ordinary type. The eyes arr in the 

 usual position ; but the hind centrals being placed obliquely, they ap- 

 pear to be nearer than usual to the tore laterals; those of the hinder 

 row are close to each other though about equally separated ; and the 

 same appears to be the case in regard to the eyes of the front row, 

 which, however, is very slightly shorter than the hinder one, but 

 curved upwards when looked at from in front. The legs are strong 

 and rather long ; their relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3 ; and they are fur- 

 nished with hairs and a few spines on the tibiae and metatarsi of the 

 two hinder pairs ; the tarsi and metatarsi are much paler than the rest 

 of the legs. 



The palpi are short and strong ; the radial joint is equal in length 

 to the cubital, and has a strong and somewhat tapering apophy^s 

 from its outer extremity ; this apophysis curves upwards and bends a 

 very little inwards near its extremity, which is not pointed but rather 

 dilated, and with the appearance, when looked at in one position, of 

 being slightly emarginate or bifid ; the digital joint is rather large ; 

 the palpal organs well-developed and prominent, consisting of several 

 corneous processes ; and a slender, curved, sharp-pointed spine issues 

 from their outer side and curves round in rather close contact with 

 them to their fore extremity. 



