1898.] 



SPIDEES EROM SAVOY. 



489 



Descriptions of two Species. 

 Gnaphosa molesta, sp. n. (Kgs. 1, 2.) 



Adult female, length 3 lines (6 mm. nearly). 



In general form, colours, and markings this spider closely 

 resembles OnapTiosa anglica Cambr., but is much smaller, the 

 female of that species commonly measuring 4 lines in length. The 

 present spider is also much less hirsute, the fine prominent hairs 

 covering the whole spider being fewer and shorter. 



Fig. 1. 



Mg. 2. 



Fig. 1.- 

 Fig. 2.- 



-Gnaphosa molesta: epigyne ( $ ). 



„ „ ( 2 ) • eyes from above and a little behind. 



The cephalothorax, legs, falces, and palpi are of a yellow-brown 

 ground-colour, the cephalothorax somewhat dusted with dark brown 

 and having a strong V-shaped darker marking at the hinder end of 

 the caput, also some dark converging irregular lateral lines on the 

 thorax and a strongish marginal black-brown line. The legs have 

 the femora dusted with dark brown, leaving some patches immaculate, 

 and beneath the fore extremity of the tibiae of the first and second 

 pairs is a single spine, which 1 cannot observe in Q. anglica. 



The maxillce, labium, and sternum are dark yellow-brown, 



The position of the eyes is almost exactly similar in both species. 



The ahclomen is dark greyish-mouse-black and its hairy clothing 

 short and close. The genital aperture somewhat resembles that 

 of G. anglica, but the anterior obtuse process directed backwards 

 is distinctly shorter. 



This spider is possibly G. leporina of L. Koch, of which I have 

 not been able to examine any authentic example, and it is less 

 hazardous to describe it as new than to include it from the de- 

 scription alone as synonymous with at any rate a very nearly allied 

 spider. M. Simon some years ago singled out a female from a lot of 

 G. anglica I sent to him for examination, as a female of G. leporina 

 L. Koch. I have re-examiued this specimen very carefully and it 

 is certainly only G. anglica. It did not appear that M. Simon 

 had ever seen an authentic example of Gnaphosa leporina L. Koch, 

 which has not yet been recorded from France, its localities being 

 given as Transylvania, Germany, and Sweden. 



Adult females were found at the Chalet Melezes near St. Gervais 



