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palpus are bolder and larger, though apparently of the same form ; 

 also the tooth beneath this joint is much stronger ; there are also 

 some small denticulations visible along the central longitudinal line 

 of the caput when looked at in profile. 



Five adult males were found on the roadway between Hasbeiya and 

 Damascus. 



Erigone spinosa, sp. nov. (Plate XIII. fig. 12.) 



In size, form, general structure, and armature of the cephalo- 

 thorax and falces, this yet very distinct species nearly resembles E. 

 longipalpis and others ; the legs, however, are of a redder hue ; and 

 the projection or apophysis beneath the fore extremity of the cubital 

 joint of the palpus distinguishes the male at a glance. This apophysis 

 in all the other closely allied species of this group of the genus Eri- 

 gone is either perpendicular to the joint or has a backward direction ; 

 in this species, however, it is directed strongly forwards beneath the 

 radial joint ; it is also slightly sinuous, and less robust than the cor- 

 responding apophysis in the other species. The radial joint of the 

 palpus is shorter than the cubital, and has no tooth-like spine be- 

 neath it, though in some Egyptian examples there was in the place 

 of such a spine a very minute kind of tubercle and bristle : at the 

 fore extremity on the upperside the radial joint is simply emargi- 

 nate, and the lobes or prominences thus formed are less conspicuous 

 than in most of the other species alluded to ; the prolongation, how- 

 ever, at the fore extremity of the underside of the joint is longer. 

 The digital joint is small, not longer than the radial ; and the palpal 

 organs present nothing remarkable in their structure or development. 

 The cephalothorax of the male has some small somewhat denticular 

 tubercles in a longitudinal row along the middle of the caput, each 

 being surmounted by a bristle. The female (found only in Egypt) 

 had the falces and margins of the cephalothorax armed with spines, 

 though not so strongly, similar to the male. 



E. spinosa appears to be a widely dispersed species. I found it 

 at Cairo and Alexandria (Egypt), also (in Palestine) on the road be- 

 tween Jezreel and Nazareth, as well as at Rome. I have since re- 

 ceived it from M. Simon, by whom it was captured near Paris. 



Erigone pastoralis, sp. n. (Walckenaera, Bl.). 



Male adult, length f of a line, or -j^ of an inch. 



The cephalothorax of this species is of a glossy deep rich red- 

 brown colour margined with black ; the legs are reddish orange- 

 yellow, and the abdomen brownish black. Tbere is no distinct eleva- 

 tion of the caput, which is gradually confluent with the thorax ; the 

 noi vnal indentations are fairly marked ; and the height of the clypeus, 

 which is slightly prominent, equals one half that of the facial space. 

 The eyes do not differ much in size ; those of the hinder row are 

 equidistant from each other ; the fore centrals are the smallest and 

 darkest-coloured of the eight and contiguous to each other ; the 

 four central eyes form nearly a square whose fore side is the shortest ; 

 those of each lateral pair are contiguous to each other, and are seated 





