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the clypeus, and is straight ; but the hinder row is a little curved ; 

 the two centrals of this row are nearer together than each is to the 

 lateral of the same row on its side, while the hind centrals are fur- 

 ther from each other than each is from the lateral on its side ; the 

 eyes of each lateral pair are placed in a strongly oblique line, and the 

 interval between them exceeds one half an eye's diameter. 



The legs are moderately long, and not very strong ; they are spa- 

 ringly clothed with hairs and spines. 



The palpi are rather slender and moderately long ; the humeral 

 joints have two short, strong, black bristles near their fore extremity ; 

 the cubital is longer than the radial joint, and has a long black bristle 

 issuing from its fore extremity ; the latter joint has two longer black 

 bristles on its inner side ; and at its outer extremity there is a small 

 blunt pointed apophysis, with a small red-brown corneous prominence 

 at its base on the underside ; the digital joint is small, and of an oblong- 

 oval form ; the palpal organs are simple, and not very prominent, 

 though well developed. The falces are long, strong, and projecting ; 

 their profile is slightly arched, and they are broadly but not deeply 

 excavated near their inner extremities ; their colour is a dark reddish 

 yellow-brown. 



The abdomen is of a long-oval form, pointed behind ; its colour is 

 yellow, very sparingly clothed with greyish-yellow hairs ; it has the 

 normal narrow elongate marking along the centre of its fore half very 

 indistinctly visible, being only of a little clearer and darker yellow 

 than the rest ; four dusky-yellow impressed spots form nearly a 

 square (the fore side being slightly the shortest) not far from the 

 middle of the upperside. The spinners are prominent, but of mode- 

 rate length and strength, those of the inferior pair being longer and 

 stronger than those of the superior. 



A single adult male was found among the low plants near Elisha's 

 Well, on the plains of the Jordan. 



Cltjbiona gilva, sp. nov. (Plate XVI. fig. 39.) 



Female adult, length 3 lines. 



This Spider might be taken for the female of C. straminea ; but 

 the eyes are smaller, and are disposed in two longer and more nearly 

 parallel lines, the fore one of which is not quite so near to the margin 

 of the clypeus as in that species : their relative positions, however, 

 are the same ; but the interval between those of each lateral pair 

 equals, if it does not exceed, the diameter of the largest of them. 

 The falces are stronger and more arched in profile ; they are also 

 without any excavation on their inner sides at the extremities (but 

 this may be only a sexual character), and are of a deep reddish yel- 

 low-brown colour ; in other respects this species is similar in colour 

 to C. straminea, but the abdomen has a few small prominent black 

 bristles on its upperside at and near the fore extremity. The maxillce 

 and labium are of the ordinary form, the latter is slightly emarginate at 

 its apex (as also is that of C. straminea); the genital aperture is very 

 small, and very similar in form to that of C. phragmitis (Koch), to 

 which, perhaps, this Spider is still more nearly allied than to C. stra- 



