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



Epeira antriada, Walck. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 83. 



An immature female of this species was found in the Hotel d'Orient 

 at Beirut. 



Epeira apoclisa, Walck. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 61. 



Adults of both sexes were met with in geometric snares spun 

 amoug low-growing shrubs and weeds at Jericho and Tiberias. 



Epeira adianta, Walck. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 52. 



An adult male and females were met with in geometric snares at 

 Jerusalem, Nazareth, and on the plains of Esdraelon. I can find 

 no structural distinction between these examples and those met with 

 in England ; but the former were all of much larger size. 



Epeira perplicata, sp. nov. 



In a Spider so nearly resembling E. solers (Walck.), and yet so evi- 

 dently distinct, it will perhaps be best just to note the most tangible 

 points of difference. It is in general rather less in size, though some 

 examples were fully as large as any I have ever met with of ii'. solers ; 

 and the abdomen is more of a subtriangular and less globular form ; 

 it is less clothed with grey pubescence, and has a firmer and more 

 coriaceous kind of integument ; and the surface of the abdomen is 

 furnished, sometimes pretty thickly, with longish and often semidia- 

 phanous spiny bristles ; it has the abdominal pattern better and 

 more continuously defined by the external dentated lines, though 

 more obscure in other respects ; the ground-colour of the abdomen 

 in E. solers is sprinkled with dark dots and spots, which in the pre- 

 sent species are represented by short, dark, irregular lines ; and on 

 the underside the two opposite curved yellowish bars constantly pre- 

 sent in E. solers are commonly replaced by four spots or blotches, as 

 if representing merely the four extremities of the bars in that species. 

 The eyes of the lateral pairs, when looked at obliquely from the front, 

 are more nearly in a straight line ; a very marked differential character 

 in the adult male is furnished by two thickly set, parallel, longitu- 

 dinal rows of numerous, very short, strong spines beneath the tibia? 

 of the legs of the second pair ; these have a kind of tuberculous 

 look ; also beneath the femora of the same legs are two rows of less 

 conspicuous and more thinly set as well as finer spines ; and on 

 the fore side of the femora of the second pair of legs in the adult 

 male there is a straight row of strongish nearly perpendicular spines 

 directed a little outwards, and comprising the whole length of the 

 joints ; and the legs generally have a more spiny appearance than 

 those of E. solers. 



In the palpi the horn-like process at the base of the digital joints 

 is, in the present species, more sharply curved at its extremity ; and 

 the palpal organs also differ slightly, but distinctly, in structure. In 

 the female the epigyne is longer, not quite so strong, and more sharply 

 bent backwards in the middle ; and in both sexes the legs appear to 

 be in general less conspicuously banded. Some female specimens have 



