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2, 3, and they are furnished very sparingly with hairs and a few 

 short dark spines; they are of a yellowish colour, with one or two 

 faint dusky brown annulations. The palpi had the palpal bulb 

 large and tumid, but undeveloped. 



An immature male was found on low-growing plants near Jericho. 



LlNYPHIA CONGENER, Sp. nOV. 



Female adult, length \\ line. 



This Spider is closely allied to L. albula, Cambr., and L. alticeps, 

 Bl., as well as to L. albuloides (the species last described); it resem- 

 bles this latter in the bifid line on the cephalothorax, which is yellow 

 and has also a blackish marginal line. From L. albula it differs in 

 having the sternum of a blackish-brown colour. The abdomen is 

 white, with a central longitudinal dark brown bar (which emits fine 

 branches from its sides) on the fore part of the upperside, and con- 

 tinued in a fine line to the spinners ; there are also two longitudinal 

 rows of dark nearly confluent spots on the hinder half converging to 

 the spinners : the sides have some ill-defined, oblique, blackish-brown 

 lines ; and the underside is black-brown, with three elongate yellow- 

 white spots disposed longitudinally in the central line. The epigyne 

 connected with the genital aperture is simple but prominent, and was 

 apparently fully developed. 



The legs are long and slender; their relative length 1, 4, 2, 3; 

 they are furnished with hairs and some fine spines, and are of a 

 yellow colour, distinctly annulated with dusky brown. 



Adult females of this species were found among shrubs on the 

 Lebanon. 



Linyphia leprosa, Ohl. Die Aran, der Provinz Preuss. p. 47, 

 = L. confnsa, Cambr. Linn. Trans, xxvii. pp. 427 & 462. 



An adult female of this species was found on the Lebanon. 



Linyphia frtjtetorum, Koch, Die Arachn. xii. p. 123, pi. 424. 

 figs. 1044, 1045. 



Adult females of this very distinct species (though closely allied 

 to L.pratensis, Bl.) were found among low-growing plants at Hebron 

 and near Jericho. 



Genus Pachygnatha (Sundevall). 

 Pachygnatha listeri?, Sund. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1829, p. 210. 



An immature female of what I believe to be the above species 

 (though from the immature example its specific identity could not 

 be decided with absolute certainty) was found at Damascus. 



Pachygnatha? mandibulars, Luc. Explor. en Alger, p. 260, 

 p. 17. fig. 1. 



Adult males and females of this striking-looking species were found 

 at Jerusalem and near Jericho, generally under stones, but the male 

 occasionally running on the ground. Doubts have been expressed 



