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a small black scopula beneath the tarsal claws, which have only a 

 single, scarcely visible deiiticulation near the middle of their under- 

 side. 



The palpi are slender, of moderate length, and fringed thickly on 

 each side with coarse white hairs. 



The falces are deep reddisb black-brown, the maxillce and labium 

 being dark yellow-brown, tipped with yellowish-white, and the 

 sternum dull orange-yellow. 



The abdomen is yellow, slightly suffused with yellow-brown on the 

 upperside, which has an indistinct and rather irregular marginal 

 brownish line, enclosing nearly its whole area, the enclosed space 

 being narrower behind than before, and containing a longitudinal 

 central tapering band, very faintly defined by two lines of a slightly 

 paler hue than the rest ; the sides are marked with a few faint, 

 brownish, horizontal lines or short stripes ; the underside is yellow, 

 immaculate, the spinners short and of a yellow-brown colour ; the 

 genital aperture is of a transverse oval form, and connected with a 

 rather large dark yellow-brown somewhat quadrate area. 



Several adult and immature females, with an immature male, were 

 found near Cairo. 



Gen. Epiblemtjm, Hentz (Calliel/iera, C. Koch). 



EpIBLEMTJM TR1CINCTUM. 



Callietliera tricincta, C, Koch, Die Arachn. xiii. p. 50, pi. xliv. 

 fig. 1117. 



Two adult females of this species were found near Alexandria. It 

 is very nearly allied to E. scenicum, Koch., but may easilv be di- 

 stinguished by the oblique lateral white stripes uniting and forming 

 transverse bands across the abdomen. 



Epiblemum palvdivagtjm. 



Salticus paludivac/us, Luc. Explor. Alger, p. 167, pi. viii. fig. 7. 

 A single adult female (concluded by M. Simou to be of this 

 species) was found near Alexandria. 



Gen. Heeiophanus, C. Koch. 

 Heliophantjs decoratus. 



Salticus cupreus, Sav. et Aud. Egypte, p. 171, pi. vii. fig. 15. 



Heliophanus decoratus, L. Koch, iEgyptische und abyss. Arachn. 

 1875, p. 87, pi. vii. fig. 8. 



Adult examples of both sexes were found among plants on the 

 walls of the fortifications near Alexandria. 



There is no doubt about the distinctness of this Spider from 

 H. cupreus, Walck. (Europe) ; and I feel confident that it is the same 

 as that described and figured by Savigny and Audouin, and (lately) 

 by Dr. L. Koch (loc. cit. supra). It is very nearly allied to, 

 perhaps identical with, H.facetus, Cambr., found in Palestine. 



