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



Gen. Pi rata, Sund. 



PlRATA LEOPARDUS. 



Pirata leopardus, Sund. 



Lycosa cambrica, Bl. Brit. & Irish Spid. p. 32, pi. ii. fig. 14. 



Adults of both sexes were found in a marsh near Alexandria ; and 

 I can find no structural difference in the male palpi from those parts 

 of L. cambrica, Bl. The colours, however, of the abdomen are more 

 distinct and more strongly contrasted, while their disposition is the 

 same. 



Pirata proxima, sp. n. 



Adult female, length 4 lines. « 



The cephalothorax, looked at in profile, has the thoracic region 

 considerably humped, and the hinder slope very steep and abrupt ; 

 it is clothed with hairs, and the upper part, especially of the caput, 

 is furnished with numerous erect blackish bristles ; the colour is 

 yellow-brown, margined with a black line, immediately above which 

 is a narrow band clothed densely with short white hairs, a little way 

 above which, again, is a broader but not very regular or continuous 

 yellowish band : from the posterior eyes a broad yellowish tapering 

 band runs to the hinder extremity, having within it a largish yellow- 

 brown marking, fining off into the red-brown line which denotes the 

 thoracic junction ; this vellow-brown marking; is again divided longi- 

 tudinally by a yellowish line, which also runs through the middle of 

 the ocular area. 



The eyes occupy an area rather broader than long, the length being 

 measured from the lateral eyes of the front to those of the hinder 

 row, ignoring the upper angle of the caput, just below which the e} es 

 of the middle row are placed ; the length of the front row is equal to 

 that of the middle one, and its two central eyes are a little further 

 from each other than each is from the lateral eye next to it, and are 

 smaller than the eyes of the hinder row, the fore laterals being the 

 smallest of the eight. 



The leys are strong, but not very long ; their relative length appears 

 to be 4, J, 3, 2, though the difference between those of the Hist and 

 third pairs is very small, if any ; they are of a dull brownish-yellow 

 colour (the femora only having the faintest traces of darker annula- 

 tions on their uppersides), and are furnished with hairs, bristles, and 

 spines ; the latter are the strongest and most numerous on the tibia? 

 and metatarsi of the third and fourth pairs. 



The falces are strong, and of a dark reddish yellow-brown colour. 



The maailla? are yellow-brown, tinged with reddish ; the labium 

 dark blackish brown, with a pale apex ; and the sternum yellow, 

 marked with a few not very distinct dusky brown blotches. All 

 these parts are of normal form and furnished with bristly hairs. 



The abdomen fits well up to the hinder slope of the ceplialothorax ; 

 it is of a dull yellow olive-brown colour, paler on the under than on 

 the upperside ; the normal macula along the middle of the fore part 

 of the upperside is indistinctly visible and of a dusky brownish hue, 



