248 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON THE [Feb. 20, 



Melanophora carmeli, sp. nov. (Plate XVI. fig. 29.) 



Male adult, length 1\ lines. 



This species, whose general form and structure is of the usual type, 

 differs from all known to me in having the legs, which are of a 

 yellow-brown colour, broadly annulated with black-brown (the femora 

 and tibiae of the male, however, being entirely black or hlack-brown). 

 The cephalothorax is of a deep black-brown colour. The legs are 

 long, their relative length 4, 1,2, 3, rather strong, and furnished with 

 hairs and a few spines. The palpi are moderately long, and not very 

 strong ; the radial is equal to the cubital joint in length, and has a 

 small sharp-pointed red-brown corneous apophysis from its extremity 

 on the outer side ; the digital joint is rather small, and the palpal 

 organs are neither very prominent nor complex, but there is a rather 

 closely coiled, filiform, red-brown and black spine at their extremity. 

 The maxillce are normal ; the labium large, oblong, and rounded at 

 its apex : these parts, with the sternum, which is thickly marked with 

 impressed punctures, are of a dark yellow-brown, the maxillae tipped 

 with pale whitish. The abdomen is of a narrow oblong-oval form and 

 a dark sooty-black colour, and has a bare, but not shining, coriaceous 

 patch on the fore part of the upperside ; the spinners are of moderate 

 size. A female was much smaller (although quite adult) than the 

 male, but resembled the male in colour and markings. The genital 

 aperture is of characteristic form. 



Two adult males and one female were found under stones on 

 Mount Carmel, near El Mukrakah, the supposed place of Elijah's 

 sacrifice. 



Genus Micaria (Westr.). 

 Micaria ignea, sp. nov. (Plate XVI. fig. 30.) 



Female adult, length 1 \ line. 



The cephalothorax is of a narrow oval form, and, when looked at 

 in profile, curves slightly but regularly from the hinder margin to the 

 eyes ; it is of a bright and rather coppery-red colour, clothed with a 

 few yellowish hairs. The eyes are in two almost concentric curved 

 rows, the curves directed backwards ; those of the foremost row are 

 larger than those of the hinder one ; the centrals are the largest of 

 the eight, and are separated by a very narrow interval, while each is 

 contiguous to the lateral on its side ; the hind centrals are further 

 from each other than each is from the hind lateral on its side, the 

 interval between them being equal to that between the two lateral 

 eyes, and the interval between the hind centrals is equal to that be- 

 tween each and the fore lateral on its side. The legs are slender, those 

 of the hinder pair being much the longest ; their relative length is 

 (apparently) 4, 1, 2, 3 ; and their colour is yellowish, clouded with 

 reddish yellow and red-brown ; they are furnished sparingly with 

 hairs and a few short fine spines. The falces are vertical, and neither 

 long nor very strong ; they are similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 

 The abdomen is long and narrow, and of a somewhat cylindrical form; 



