1876.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. 559 



longitudinal rows of bold whitish spots along the whole length of the 

 abdomen ; most of these spots are in fact the enlarged extremities of 

 the usual transverse angular bars or chevrons ; and between each the 

 space is black ; there are also some black spots and markings on the 

 sides, the underparts of the abdomen being unicolorous ; the central 

 longitudinal band has some black spots and markings on its fore part 

 irregularly defining the normal elongate marking ; the spinners are 

 yellow, devoid of markings, and those of the superior pair are rather 

 more than double the length of those of the inferior, the second 

 (terminal) joint being smaller, though longer, than the basal one. 



The female resembles the male in colour and markings ; these are, 

 however, less strong and distinct than in the latter sex, while the legs 

 of the female have the tibiae as well as the femora annulated with 

 dusky blackish, and the underside of the abdomen has two longi- 

 tudinal lateral lines of the same hue. The genital aperture presents 

 two oval orifices side by side. 



An adult male and several adult and immature females were found 

 in tufts of coarse grass and dry herbage on the desert near Gebel y 

 Silsilis, Upper Egypt, in March 1864. 



Gen. Tegenaria. 



Tegenaria proxima. 



Tegenaria j^'oxima, Cambr. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 217. 



An adult male of this Spider, which, though exceedingly closely 

 allied to T. derhamii (Scop.), is yet cpiite distinct, was found in Cairo 

 in January 1864. 



Gen. Textrix, Sund. 



Textrix coarctata. 



Aranea coarctata, L. Duf., Sim. Arachn. de France, ii. p. 125. 



Textrix moggridgii, Cambr. Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 537, pi. xiv. 

 fig. 6. 



Adult and immature females of a Spider which I believe to be of 

 this species were found among stones and debris at Alexandria in 

 April 1864 ; the adult examples, however, are more brightly coloured 

 than those I have received from Mentone ; the cephalothorax and 

 legs being of an orange-yellow brown colour ; the fore part of the 

 former (caput) and the falces are tinged strongly with red-brown, and 

 the median line of the fore part on the upperside of the abdomen 

 suffused with rusty red. These differences of colouring are probably 

 dependent on the length of time that had elapsed since the Spider 

 effected the final casting-off of its skin. 



Gen. Enyo. 

 Enyo nitida. 



Enyo nitida, Aud. in Sav. Egypte, p. 135, pi. iii. fig. 7. 

 Clotho nitida, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. 639. 



An adult female of an Enyo which I believe to be of this species was 

 found under a stone near Alexandria. It may, however, possiblv be 



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