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yellow, furnished thinly with greyish-yellow hairs. The eyes are in 

 two transverse rows ; the fore one is straight, and nearly an eye's 

 diameter from the margin of the clvpeus ; those of the hind central 

 pair are nearer to each other than each is to the lateral of the same 

 row on its side ; those of the front row appeared to be equidistant 

 from each other; the four central eyes form a square, and those of 

 each lateral pair are placed obliquely, and are contiguous to each 

 other. The legs are moderately long, and not very strong ; their 

 relative length 1, 4, 3, 2; their colour is yellow, with a broken red- 

 brown annulus at each joint, and they are furnished very sparingly 

 with hairs and a few short spines. The palpi are short, and, with the 

 maxillae, are yellow. The labium is dark blackish brown, with a 

 yellow margin. The sternum is yellow, with a marginal row of 

 largish and nearly confluent deep-blackish red-brown spots or 

 blotches. 



The abdomen is oval, and very convex above ; it is of a dull dusky 

 yellowish colour, thickly spotted with whitish-yellow cretaceous- 

 looking spots, upon which are numerous black spots and markings, 

 both on the upper- and underside ; the normal elongate longitudinal 

 marking in the middle of the fore part is of a barbed form ; the other 

 black markings form, on the hinder half, two longitudinal lines of 

 strong spots, which converge as they approach the spinners, while 

 those on the sides form irregular oblique line. The falces are long, 

 strong, and straight, and a little projecting. 



Three females (adult and immature) were found among low- 

 growing prickly plants on the waste between Mount Tabor and 

 Nazareth. 



Cheiracanthium tenuissimum, L. Koch, Die Arachn. Fam. 

 der Drassid. p. 237, pi. ix. fig. 154. 



An adult male of this species was found at Hebron, another at 

 Jerusalem, and an adult female on the road from the latter city to 

 Nazareth. 



Cheiracanthium seidlitzii, L. Koch, Die Arachn. Fani. der 

 Drassid. p. 264, pi. x. figs. 169-171. 



An adult female at Beirut. 



Cheiracanthium miedki, L. Koch, Die Arachn. Fam. der 

 Drassid. p. 253, pi. x. figs. 161-163. 



An adult male of this very distinct species was found on low- 

 growing plants on the plains of the Jordan, and another afterwards 

 at Corfu. 



Cheiracanthium anceps, sp. nov. (Plate XVI. fig. 37.) 



Female adult, length 3 to 3| lines. 



The general form and structure of this species is of the ordinary 

 type. The whole of the fore part (except the falces, which are long, 

 strong, and straight, a little prominent, and of a yellow-brown colour) 

 is dull yellow, furnished with yellowish hairs. The eyes are small, 



