558 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. [June 20, 



Gen. Agelena. 

 Ageeena lepida, sp. 11. 



Adult male, length 3 lines; adult female, 3| lines. 



The whole of the fore part of this Spider is yellow. The cephalo- 

 thorax has its surface clothed with a grey puhescence ; it is marked 

 with somewhat irregular blackish-hrown radiating lines following the 

 direction of the normal grooves and indentations, and bounded 

 laterally by another broken or interrupted line of the same colour a 

 little way from, and parallel to, the lateral margins, giving the surface 

 of the cephalothorax a somewhat boldly reticulate appearance. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position, forming two strongly curved 

 and nearly parallel lines, whose convexity is directed backwards. The 

 interval between those of the hind central pair is a little greater than 

 that between each and the lateral eye of the same row on its side ; 

 those of the fore central pair are the largest of the eight, they are 

 separated by less than a diameter's interval, and each is very nearly 

 contiguous to the lateral of the same row on its side. The four 

 central eyes form a quadrangular figure whose longitudinal is rather 

 greater than its transverse diameter. 



The legs are long and tolerably strong, their relative length, ap- 

 parently 4, 1, 2, 3 ; the difference, however, between those of the 

 second and third pairs is very slight. The femora are thickly and 

 irregularly banded with blackish brown, they are furnished with hairs 

 and long spines ; and each tarsus ends with three slightly curved claws, 

 of which the superior pair are pectinated, and the inferior one is much 

 the smallest. 



The palpi are short and strong ; the radial and cubital joints are 

 very short ; the latter is the longest, and has a short, moderately strong, 

 bifidly angular prominence at the extremity of its outer side ; it has 

 also two long strong curved tapering bristles directed forwards from 

 its upperside, one from the fore, and the other from the hinder 

 extremity ; the radial joint is also somewhat protuberant in front to- 

 wards the outer side, and is furnished with two pairs of bristles, of 

 the same kind as those on the cubital joint ; the digital joint is large 

 equalling the falces in length, and its fore extremity is drawn out into 

 a longish point. The palpal organs are well developed, surrounded on 

 their outer margin with a strong shining corneous-looking yellow- 

 brown fillet, and terminating anteriorly with a strong twisted corneous 

 process of a similar colour. 



The falces are rather long, strong, straight, prominent in front 

 near their base, and directed rather backwards towards the labium. 



The maxilla and labium are of normal form, the latter being a little 

 suffused with a dusky blackish hue. 



The sternum has a strong irregularly edged blackish margin. 



The abdomen is of a dull yellowish colour, with a broad longi- 

 tudinal whitish band on its upperside ; this band is mottled, and at 

 the fore part strongly suffused with rusty red ; its lateral edges are 

 crenellated or bluntly denticulate, the prominent points being distinctly 

 whiter and brighter than the rest, and forming two nearly parallel 



