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Show 1876.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. 619 with white hairs ; ocular area black, thinly furnished with fine shiny yellowish-grey hairs ; the hinder part has several short oblique stripes of white hairs ; and besides other hairs and slender bristles, there are one or two small tufts of stronger black bristles on either side of the ocular area just below the extremities of the anterior and intermediate rows of eyes, looking (when perfect) like horns ; there is also a patch of white hairs close behind each eye of the posterior row ; and one example also had a similar patch close behind the fore central eye. Clypeus almost obsolete. The eyes are in the usual position ; the ocular area is broader than long, and the length of the posterior row of eyes is slightly greater than that of the anterior one. The eyes of the intermediate row are rather nearer to the posterior than to the anterior lateral eyes. The legs are moderately long and not very strong, except those of the first pair; these are long and of inordinate strength, especially the femoral joints ; those of the fourth pair are longer than those of the second, and the third pair are rather the shortest ; the first pair are of a dark reddish yellow-brown colour, armed with a double row of not very strong spines beneath the tibiae and metatarsi, and furnished thickly, and chiefly underneath, with fine prominent hairs ; the tarsi are paler-coloured than the rest, and (like those of the other pairs) have a small compact black scopula beneath their terminal claws ; the other three pairs are of a brownish yellow (the femora strongly suffused with dark smoky brown) and furnished with hairs and fine spines. The palpi are rather short and slender ; they are of a dark reddish yellow-brown colour, furnished with hairs, many of which are nearly white ; the radial joint is exceedingly short, shorter than the cubital, and its outer extremity terminates with a small curved, deep black-brown, pointed apophysis; the digital joint is oblong oval, and exceeds in length that of the cubital and radial joints together ; its colour is deep brown, it is clothed with dark hairs, and at its extremity (which is rather of a truncate form) there are some short dull sandy-coloured ones; the palpal organs are simple in form, and extend a little backwards beneath the radial joint. The falces are tolerably long and strong; they are also divergent and projecting forwards, and are armed with a strong tooth on their inner sides. The maxilla and labium are reddish yellow-brown, the latter being the darkest; and the sternum is small, oval, of a dull yellow colour, dark brown in front and on the margins. The abdomen is of a long narrow oblong oval form, nearly half as long again as the cephalothorax, and not much more than half its width ; the upperside is clothed with hairs, many of which are of a shining, rather golden-green hue, scintillating in different lights; it is of a dark brown colour, with a somewhat paler longitudinal central band, from which three well-marked though irregularly defined oblique yellowish stripes, clothed with white hairs, issue on either side; there are also two others of a similar nature on the fore margin, forming a curved anterior marginal border; the sides are closely stri- |
