1872.] SPIDERS OF PALESTINE AND SYRIA. 275 



Jerusalem, and on the plains of Esdraelon, in dark and ruined 

 buildings. 



Tegenaria annulipes, sp. nov. 



Female adult, length 4|- lines. 



Although very nearly allied to T. domestica (Clerck) [non T. do- 

 mestica, Bl.], this species seems to be certainly distinct ; it is much 

 smaller, but resembles it so nearly in the general colouring and 

 markings on the upperside, as to need no special description in these 

 respects. The whole Spider, however, has a brighter, clearer yellow 

 look, and a more spotted appearance ; the legs are more distinctly 

 spotted and banded with black-brown ; and the sternum, instead of 

 being dark brown with a central longitudinal dash and a marginal 

 row of yellow spots as in T. domestica, must be described as with 

 those colours reversed — that is, as yellow with narrow black-brown 

 intersections, preserving at the same time the character of the pattern 

 in that Spider, the spots in that species being so much expanded as 

 to become in the present one the ground-colour. This reversal of 

 ground-colour and markings is also observable in the pattern on the 

 upperside of the abdomen when the two species are compared. 



An adult female, with immature examples of both sexes, were found 

 in crevices of rocks on the sides of the Lebanon range. 



Family Hersiliides. 

 Genus Hersiliada (Sim.) = Hersiliola (Thor.). 



Hersiliada simonii, sp. nov. (Plate XIV. fig. 9.) 



Male adult, length 2 lines ; female adult 2\. 



In size, general structure, and appearance this species is similar to 

 H. oraniensis (Luc), but it differs very distinctly in colour and 

 markings. The whole Spider is of a sandy-yellow colour, and the 

 legs and palpi are broadly banded with yellow-brown. 



The cephalothorax has a deep impression, or indentation, at the 

 junction of the caput and thoracic segments ; it has also an irregular 

 band running round above the margins, a central longitudinal one 

 which subdivides into two just behind the eyes, and one from each 

 of the fore pairs of eyes running to the margin of the clypeus ; all 

 these bands, or stripes, are of a yellowish-brown colour. 



The abdomen has a very peculiar and distinct yellow-brown pattern 

 on its upperside ; towards the fore part is a largish, somewhat dia- 

 mond-shaped patch produced forwards ; and immediately succeeding 

 and connected with this is an irregularly angular bar, or strong chev- 

 ron, its angle directed forwards ; between this and the extremity of 

 the abdomen, on either side of the ends of the angular bar, is an 

 irregular spot or two of a paler yellow-brown ; this pattern is in 

 most examples distinctly but narrowly bordered with a paler yellow 

 edging ; this edging is formed by whitish papilliform hairs, with 

 which the whole ground-colour in some specimens is more or less 

 covered; the sides are marked with a longitudinal and roughly den- 

 tated, and often indistinct yellowish bar, from which some slightly 



