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



Lycosa (Tarentula) apuli^, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 281. 

 Adult and immature females were found at Jericho, on the plain 

 of Esdraelon, and at Beirut. 



Lycosa (Tarentula) narbonnensis, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 282. 



A male and females immature of this fine Lycosa were found at 

 Jerusalem and on the plains of the Jordan. 



Lycosa trucidatoria, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 311. 

 An immature male, and females both adult and immature, were 

 found on the Jordaa plains and at Beirut. 



Lycosa sagittata, Koch, Die Arachn. xiv. p. 177, pi. 499. 

 fig. 1395. 



An adult male and females of this distinctly marked Spider were 

 found at Jerusalem. 



Lycosa nigra? Koch, Die Arachn. xv. p. 13, pi. 508. fig. 1423-24. 



An adult male and females were found on the road from Hasbeiya 

 to Damascus. 



Lycosa proxima? Koch, Die Arachn. xv. p. 53, pi. 517. 

 fig. 1453-54. 



An adult male and females of this species were found on the plains 

 of the Jordan. 



Lycosa cambrica?, Bl. Brit, and Ir. Spid. p. 32, pi. 2. fig. 14. 



An adult female of what I cannot distinguish from L. cambrica, 

 (Bl.) was found among water-weeds on the banks of the stream flow- 

 ing from Elisha's Well on the Jordan plains. 



Lycosa piratica, Bl. Brit, and Ir. Spid. p. 34, pi. 2. fig. 16. 



An adult male and immature females of this Spider, which I 

 cannot distinguish from the species to which it is here referred, were 

 found among water-weeds on the banks of the stream issuing from 

 Elisha's Well near Jericho. 



Lycosa albimana, Koch, Die Arachn. xiv. p. 202, pi. 504. 

 fig. 1411-12. 



Adults of both sexes of this easily recognized Spider were met 

 with in similar situations to those of the last two species, both near 

 Jericho, on Mount Carmel, and the Lebanon. 



Lycosa dissonans, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2| lines ; female adult, 3 lines. 



This very distinct Spider appears to be intermediate between L. 

 picta (Hahn) and L. cambrica (Bl.), but is smaller than either. It 

 resembles them in the form of the cephalothorax, which is rather 

 pointed before, and has a somewhat blunt conical protuberance near 



