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



Genus Textrix (Sundevall). 

 Textrix inornata, sp. nov. 



Female adult, length 4| lines. 



In form, structure, and in the general position of the eyes this 

 species is very similar to T. lycosina (Sund.) ; but the colours and 

 markings are strikingly different. The cephalothorax is dark brown, 

 the caput tinged with yellowish red-brown ; the normal indentations 

 are marked by darker lines ; and there is a narrow, central, longitu- 

 dinal white band, which begins near the eyes and ends near the 

 hinder margin, both extremities fining off to a fine line. This band 

 is apparently formed by short, pale hairs. 



The eyes are seated on a black patch ; the two centrals of the front 

 row are the smallest, and those of the hinder row the largest ; these 

 last are very prominent and conspicuous. 



The abdomen is of a uniform dull brownish black and (when in 

 spirit of wine) minutely and pretty thickly mottled with pale dusky ; 

 a series of fine angular lines, or chevrons, is visible, chiefly on the 

 hinder part of the upperside. The legs, palpi, and sternum are of 

 a clear brown-yellow, more or less distinctly bounded with dusky 

 brown. The legs are furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines, some 

 of the latter being rather long. Each tarsus ends with three claws. 



The fa/ces are of a deep red-brown colour; the maxillae, and la- 

 bium rather paler, and narrowly tipped with whitish yellow ; the 

 spinners are six in number, those of the superior pair long and two- 

 jointed ; the second joint directed upwards over the base of the 

 abdomen. 



Seven examples of the female (mostly adult) were found in the 

 crevices and interstices of rubbly bank-sides at Jericho, Jerusalem, 

 and Hebron. I was unable to discover the male, which would pro- 

 bably give some other good differential specific characters. 



Textrix puta, sp. nov. 



Female adult, length 5| lines. 



This species may be distinguished from T. inornata by its larger size 

 and its paler (and even plainer) colouring. The legs also were desti- 

 tute of any dark annulation ; this last character, however, may be here, 

 as it is in some other Spiders, dependent upon age and other causes. 



The eyes are of a much more uniform size than those of T. inor- 

 nata, and are not seated on a black patch ; the hind centrals are not 

 nearly so large in proportion to the rest, nor so prominent and con- 

 spicuous. The abdomen is of a uniform pale, dusky, whitish-brown 

 colour ; and the genital aperture is smaller than that of the foregoing 

 species, and of a different form. 



Adult females were found at Jerusalem. 



Genus Tegenaria (Latr.). 



Tegenaria intricata, Koch, Die Arachn. viii. p. 29, pi. 261. 

 figs. 610, 611. 



An adult male, with females adult and immature, were found at 



