1872.] SPIDERS OF PALESTINE AND SYRIA. 261 



the mere possession of these would not necessarily bring them into 

 juxtaposition with each other. Eresus and Dictyna seem to me to 

 connect the Agelenides and Drassides through Palpimanus and Ste- 

 nochilus (Cambr.). 



Eresus moerens, Koch, Die Arachn. xiii. p. 3, pi. 433. fig. 1078. 

 A single adult female was found near Jericho. 



Eresus ruficapillus, Koch, Die Arachn. xiii. p. 4, pi. 433. 

 fig. 1080. 



Adult and immature females were found also near Jericho. 



Genus Dictyna (Sundeval). 

 Dictyna benigna, Bl. Brit. & Ir. Spid. p. 146, pi. ix. fig. 93. 

 A single adult female was found on low plants on the Lebanon. 



Dictyna variabilis, Koch, Die Arachn. hi. p. 29, pi. 83. fig. 187. 

 A single adult female of this species was found at Hebron. 



Dictyna consecuta, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 1 line. 



This species, although smaller and differing a little in colours and 

 markings from D. uncinata (Westr.), yet resembles it so nearly as 

 to be distinguished readily only by the structure of the palpi and 

 palpal organs. The spur at the base on the upperside of the radial 

 joints of the palpi is slightly curved and directed forwards ; in D. 

 uncinata it is straight and nearly vertical ; the digital joint is large ; 

 and the palpal organs have a strong rather circular corneous lobe 

 near their base on the inner side, from which springs a strong black 

 spine which completely surrounds the palpal organs in its wide and 

 sweeping coil. The markings of the female are more distinct than 

 those of the male, and give a good distinguishing character from D. 

 uncinata : the central longitudinal dark marking on the fore part of 

 the upperside of the abdomen is distinctly trifid at its hinder ex- 

 tremity ; and the brown angulated lines or bars which succeed this 

 are rather indistinct, but are terminated at either extremity by a bold 

 and distinct black patch or spot. The female has a calamistrum on 

 the metatarsus of each leg of the fourth pair, and also a supernume- 

 rary spinning-organ ; the adult male has only the latter. 



An adult male was found on low-growing plants at Jerusalem, and 

 another near Damascus ; the adult female alluded to was found in a 

 similar situation on the plains of the Jordan. 



Dictyna put a, sp. nov. 



Male and female (immature), length 1 line. 



In form and structure this species is similar to the last, D. conse- 

 cuta. The cephalothorax is dark brown ; the legs and palpi yel- 

 lowish brown with a slight olive tinge ; the tarsi and metatarsi of the 

 former are pale yellowish, with a brown annulus at their extremities. 



