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Genus Selenops (Dufour). 



Selenops omalosoma, Dufour, Ann. Sc. Phys. 1820, p. 7, pi. 69. 

 fig. 4. 



An immature female of a Selenops which I believe to be of this 

 species was found under a stone at Jericho. 



Fam. Sphasides. 

 Genus Pasithea (Bl.). 

 Pasithea virescens, sp. nov. 



Female immature, length 1\ lines. 



This species is closely allied to P. viridis (Bl.), as well as to P. 

 pulchra (id.). It resembles them in form and structure, but differs 

 from both in its markings. 



The cephalothorax is of a dull yellowish-green colour, with some 

 dusky lines and markings, showing the normal indentations ; the 

 ocular area is strongly tinged with carmine-red, and is clothed with 

 pale hairs and a few bristles ; from each eye of the foremost pair an 

 oblique dusky line runs to the falces, but is not continued upon them 

 (at least it was not in the examples met with ; but there may be a 

 variation in some individuals in this respect). 



The legs are moderate in length and strength, their relative length 

 is 1, 2, 4, 3 ; and they are furnished with hairs and long spines ; 

 they are of a bright yellow colour, spotted and irregularly annulated 

 with bright carmine-red. The maxillce and labium are similar in 

 colour to the cephalothorax ; and the sternum is green. 



The abdomen is of a bright apple-green colour, with a deeper- 

 green central, longitudinal, tapering band on its fore part, emitting 

 fine lateral oblique lines ; it is thickly mottled and spotted with white 

 on the upperside ; and some of the larger white spots are arranged 

 somewhat symmetrically in irregular transverse curved rows ; and, 

 when captured, the whole of the upper surface was sprinkled thinly 

 with minute crimson spots ; these, however, have since faded away. 



Immature examples of the female of this showy and strikingly 

 handsome Spider were found in irregular snares on low-growing plants 

 at the upper end of the valley of Hinnom, Jerusalem. 



Genus Oxyopes (Latr.). 



OXYOPES GENTILIS (Koch). 



Adults of both sexes of this species were found near Jericho, at 

 Nazareth, and also near Beirut. 



Oxyopes lineatus, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 375. 



Adult males, and females both adult and immature, were found at 

 Jerusalem and Jericho. 



Oxyopes sobrinus, sp. nov. 

 Male adult, length 2| lines. 



