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



Sparassus linnjei, Savigny, Egypte, Arachn. p. 160, pi. 6. fig. 2. 

 An immature female of what I believe to be this species was 

 found under a stone near Jericho. 



Sparassus ornattjs, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 583. 



Undoubted examples of this Spider ( $ ), though all immature, 

 were found at Beirut. From a well-marked adult male lately re- 

 ceived from Switzerland, through the kindness of Dr. C. Collingwood, 

 M.D., I feel convinced that this and the next are but varieties of 

 one species. 



Sparassus smaragdulus, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 582. 

 An adult female was found on the road from Mount Carmel to 

 Cana-el-Jelil. 



Genus Heteropoda (Latr.) = Olios (Walck.). 

 Heteropoda kochii, sp. nov. (PI. XIV. fig. 13.) 



Male adult, length 6£ lines ; female adult, length 9 lines. 



The cephalothorax (male) is short, very broad, compressed late- 

 rally forwards, and well arched above ; the fore margin, looked at 

 from above and behind, is somewhat rounded : its colour is yellow ; 

 and it is clothed with hairs of a rather paler hue, and among them 

 are some longer and darker : the normal grooves and indentations 

 are of a rather deeper colour : the profile of the caput and thorax, 

 from the clypeus to the hind margin, forms an even arched line. 



The eyes are in two curved lines on the fore part of the caput, the 

 curves directed forwards : that of the foremost line, which is much 

 the shortest, is very slight ; that of the hinder one is considerable ; 

 so that the eyes of each lateral pair are widely separated from each 

 other, the space between them being very nearly equal to that be- 

 tween each fore lateral eye and that one of the fore central pair 

 furthest from it ; those of this (fore central) pair are the largest 

 of the eight ; the rest are much smaller, but about equal to each 

 other in size ; those of the fore central pair are a very little nearer 

 together than each is to the lateral on its side ; and the interval 

 between each of the fore centrals and the hind central opposite to it 

 is equal to that between the former and the fore lateral on its side ; 

 thus the four central eyes form very nearly a square, the width 

 being a very little less than the length ; the space between the hind 

 centrals is scarcely more than one half of that between each and the 

 hind lateral on its side ; the foremost row of eyes is situated very 

 close to the lower margin of the cephalothorax, so that the height 

 of the clypeus scarcely exceeds half the diameter of an eye of the 

 fore central pair. 



The legs are long and comparatively slender ; their relative length 

 is 2, 1, 4, 3; those of the second pair measure 21 1 lines in length, 

 those of the first pair 15£ lines; their colour is yellow, deepening 

 gradually from near the thorax into a dark red-brown on the meta- 



