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first and second pairs ; they are of a dull yellow colour, furnished 

 with hairs and spines, and very faintly banded with dusky brown. 



The palpi are of a dull yellow colour, furnished, but not so densely 

 as L. exigua and others, with blackish hairs ; the radial joint is rather 

 stronger, though but slightly, if at all, longer than the cubital ; the 

 digital joint is small and of an elongate-oval form ; the palpal organs 

 are well developed but not very complex, and present no prominent 

 spine. Nothing, however, but a magnified figure can give a di- 

 stinctive idea of these, or, indeed, scarcely of those of any other spe- 

 cies of Lycosa. The fakes are of a yellowish or yellow-brown colour ; 

 the sternum brownish, with an elongate central yellow patch. 



The abdomen is of a narrow oviform shape ; the narrow normal 

 Lycosa (or fusiform) marking on the fore part of its upperside is 

 yellow margined with dark black-brown, and pointed at its hinder 

 extremity ; on either side of this extremity is a spot, or small yel- 

 lowish patch, to which there succeeds a series of transverse, barely 

 angulated bars, each composed of a double spot or short stripe of 

 yellow ; this series reaches to the spinners, where the bars become very 

 short and almost confluent ; the first four or five (larger ones) have 

 a blackish spot at either extremity ; the sides and underside are yel- 

 lowish, the former spotted with dark brown. 



Two examples, presenting no variety, were found on the skirts of 

 Mount Hermon, near Rukleh. 



Lycosa deserta, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2| lines. 



This Spider cannot be better described, in respect of form, colours, 

 and markings, than as a small, pale, washed-out but spotty-looking 

 variety of L. picta, from which, however, it is certainly distinct, and 

 may be readily separated by the structure of the palpal organs ; 

 these are rather simple, and are traversed transversely and rather 

 obliquely from the middle of their inner to near their outer margin 

 by a fine sharp-pointed dark red-brown spine ; this spine does not 

 exist in the palpal organs of L. picta. The characteristic markings 

 on the abdomen are chiefly indicated by small black spots on a pale 

 yellow and whitish ground. The legs are regularly and distinctly 

 spotted with black on a yellow ground. 



Examples of both sexes in the adult state were found on desert 

 spots near Damascus. 



Lycosa effera, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length A\ lines. 



This Spider is similar to L. grisea (Koch) in size, colour, and 

 markings ; but in all the examples met with the legs were immacu- 

 late, whereas in L. grisea all the examples had the legs more or less 

 distinctly banded. Of this latter species, however, I did not obtain 

 an adult male. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position, the lowest row, formed by 

 the four smallest eyes, is longer than the row above, which is com- 

 posed of the two largest eyes ; the two centrals of the lowest row 



