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



The abdomen is jet-black, and the whole Spider more or less thickly 

 clothed with whitish-grey hairs ; these are mostly coarse, and some of 

 them are somewhat squamose in character. The most specially di- 

 stinctive specific characters of the male, such as the form of the 

 falces and the structure of the palpi, could not be observed, owing 

 to the immature condition of the specimen. The female possessed 

 calamistra and an inframamillary organ. 



An example of each sex was found on low plants at Jerusalem. 



DlCTYNA INNOCENS, Sp. nOV. 



Female adult, length If line. 



Closely allied to D. consecuta, this species is larger and perhaps 

 more nearly allied to D. benigna (Bl.), from which, however, it 

 may be distinguished by its generally paler colour (having a pale 

 yellowish ground-colour clothed with hoary pubescence) and the 

 much greater minuteness and distinctness of the pattern on the 

 upperside of the abdomen ; the longitudinal oblong marking on the 

 fore half is narrow and somewhat cruciform behind, resembling 

 nearly in this respect D. consecuta ; in some examples this marking 

 is almost obsolete ; the succeeding angular bars are black-brown, 

 strong, and often more or less confluent, forming an almost homo- 

 geneous patch in some examples ; the sides are thickly marked with 

 black-brown ; and the underside has a broad, longitudinal, central 

 band of the same colour. The legs are short, of a yellowish colour, 

 clothed with hoary hairs, and annulated with reddish brown. It 

 has calamistra in the usual position, and an inframamillary organ. 



Examples (all females) were found on low-growing plants on the 

 plains of the Jordan. 



Fam. Agelenides. 



Genus Amaurobius (Koch). 



Amaurobitjs putus, Cambr. Zool. 1863, p. 8570. 



Adult females of this Spider (which I cannot distinguish from A. 

 putus = Cinijlo pitta, Cambr.) were found on low plants on the 

 plains of the Jordan. It is, I believe, identical with Lethia stigma- 

 tisata (Menge). I cannot at present distinguish the genus Lethia 

 (Menge) by any good generic characters from Cinijlo (Bl.). The 

 name Amaurobius (Koch) is adopted as being prior to that of 

 Cinijlo conferred by Mr. Blackwall. 



Amaurobius simplex, sp. nov. 



Male immature, length 2| lines. 



In general form and structure this Spider is like the typical 

 species of the genus. The whole Spider is of a general dark sooty- 

 black colour, the cephalothorax and falces being more or less strongly 

 tinged with deep brown ; the height of the clypeus is less than half 

 that of the facial space. The eyes are not large, nor very unequal 

 in size ; the four centrals form nearly a square whose fore side is the 

 shortest ; the interval between those of the fore central pair is less 



