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Ok. ; the height of the clypeus equals, or nearly so, the diameter 

 of one of the fore central eyes. The ocular area is broader than 

 long ; but the length of the posterior and anterior rows of eyes is 

 equal ; the eyes of the intermediate row are rather nearer to the 

 posterior than to the anterior row. 



The legs are short and strong ; their relative length appears to be 

 4, 3, 1,2; they are banded alternately, though not very distinctly, 

 with yellow and yellow-brown ; they are armed with spines (but 

 most of the hairy clothing was absent) ; and each tarsus has a 

 black scopula beneath the terminal claws. 



The palpi (in an undeveloped state) are yellow, the digital 

 joint being of large size. 



The abdomen is black-brown on the upperside ; a dark oblong 

 marking along the centre of the fore half is followed to the spin- 

 ners by a series of short, pale, angular bars, or chevrons, running 

 one into the other and forming a dentated band ; it is probable 

 that this band is clothed with white hairs in uninjured examples ; 

 the sides are brown, marked with one or two oblique pale stripes ; 

 and the underside is pale luteous, spotted thinly with small black- 

 brown spots, which concentrate and form an undefined band along 

 the middle. The spinners are prominent, of a dark-brown colour, 

 tipped with dull yellowish white. 



A single example was found near Alexandria. 



Attus memorialis, sp. n. 



Adult female, length slightly over 2 lines. 



The cephalothorax of this Spider is of ordinary form ; in the 

 two female examples found it was wholly (probably accidentally) 

 denuded of hairy clothing ; its colour is dark yellow-brown, with 

 two longitudinal, pretty-well defined, dull orange-yellow stripes 

 reaching from the hinder extremity (where they converge a little) 

 to the ocular erea, which is jet-black ; the fore part of this area 

 is prominent, and the clypeus (whose height is less than half the 

 diameter of one of the fore central eyes) retreats ; besides the two 

 longitudinal stripes, there is a broad marginal one of the same hue 

 on each side. 



The eyes are in the usual position ; the ocular area is broader 

 than long, its posterior side being a very little shorter than the 

 anterior ; the eyes of the intermediate row are a little closer to 

 the lateral eye of the posterior than to that of the anterior row 

 on either side, but are in the same straight line with them ; the 

 eyes of the anterior row are bordered with white cilia ; and probably 

 the yellow stripes on the cephalothorax are usually clothed with 

 white or grey or yellowish hairs, the remaining portions with 

 dark brown ones ; but, in the absence of an uninjured specimen, 

 this is uncertain. 



The legs are moderately strong, and not very long ; their relative 

 length appears to be 4, 1, 3, 2, the difference, if any, between 

 those of the first and third pairs being very slight ; the colour 

 is yellow, without any markings or annulation : all the ordinary 



