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by them is but a trifle less than that formed by the hinder row. 

 The ocular area is longer than broad. 



The legs are rather short and strong; their relative length ap- 

 parently 4, 3, 1,2; they are of a bright yellow colour, tinged with 

 reddish brown towards the extremities of tbe first two pairs, and 

 almost immaculate, the traces of annulation being scarcely percep- 

 tible ; they are furnished sparingly with hairs and bristles, and a few 

 rather short spines. 



The fulces are strong and of a rich deep red-brown colour, clothed 

 sparingly with yellowish hairs and dark bristles. 



The maxillce are darkish yellow-brown, tinged with red, the ex- 

 tremities being pale yellow. 



The labium is wholly dark red-brown, and the sternum yellow. 



The abdomen is of a dull orange-yellow (paler underneath), and 

 pretty thickly clothed with coarsish yellow-grey adpressed hairs, 

 among which are a few prominent blackish bristles. The ordinary 

 Lycosid markings are scarcely traceable, being only just indicated by 

 a few minute black-brown spots. The sexual orifice is large but of 

 simple form, consisting of two rather oblique oval apertures near 

 together, but in opposition, at the hinder part of a large, nearly cir- 

 cular, red-yellow, somewhat corneous-looking convexity. 



A single example of this very distinct Spider was found near 

 Alexandria. 



Gen. Lycosa, Latr. 



Lycosa ijngulata, sp. n. 



Immature female, length 5 lines. 



This Spider is certainly very closely allied to Lycosa arenaria, 

 Saw (resembling it in the remarkably long and slightlv curved supe- 

 rior tarsal claws, by which it may be easily distinguished from all 

 others known to me) ; the description, however, given of the colours 

 and markings lead me to conclude that it is of a different species. 



The cephalothorax, when seen in profile, is rather depressed be- 

 hind the occiput ; and the height of tbe clypeus considerably exceeds 

 the diameter of the fore central eyes ; this part and the ocular area 

 are dark brown ; but being, with the rest of the cephalothorax, 

 covered with yellow-grey pubescence, its colour is not so apparent ; 

 there are also on these parts numerous long bristly hairs ; the rest 

 of the cephalothorax is of a bright straw-yellow colour, with two 

 broad longitudinal yellow-brown bands, each of which includes at its 

 fore extremity the lateral eyes, on its side, of the hinder and middle 

 rows. The central yellow band is very broad, but strongly con- 

 stricted (or indented) at the occiput, forming a pretty regular, large, 

 transverse oval behind the posterior eyes ; and behind this con- 

 striction the margins of the band are somewhat denticulate, and emit 

 some pale divergent lines across the two yellow-brown bands, fol- 

 lowing the directions of the thoracic indentations ; the thoracic junc- 

 tion is indicated by a longish red-brown indented line. 



The eyes are in the usual position ; those of the posterior and 

 middle rows form nearly a square, the fore side shortest and the hinder 



