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Show 1870.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON SINAITIC SPIDERS. 819 species apparently new to science, and of which descriptions and figures are added below. 1. Segestria perfida, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. 267.- Wady Gher-andel, pen. Sin. 2. Drassus listeri, Savign. Egypte, Arachn. p. 155, pl. 5. fig. 4 . - Convent gardens and back of Mount Sinai. 3. Pholcus rivulatus, Savign. Egypte, Arachn. pl. 3. fig. 12.- Convent gardens and back of Mount Sinai. 4. Latrodectus hamatus, Koch, Die Arachn. vi. tab. ccvi. figs. 507, 508.-Convent gardens and back of Mount Sinai. 5. Argiope aurelia, Savign. Egypte, Arachn. pl. 2. fig. 5.- Inland from Massowah. 6. Argiope lordii, Cambr., n. sp.-Inland from Massowah. 7. Argiope sericea, Savign. Egypte, Arachn. pl. 2. fig. 6.- Convent gardens and back of Mount Sinai. 8. Epeira opuntiee, Dufour; Walck. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 140.- inland from Massowah. 9. Epeira solers, var. ?, Walck. Ins. Apt. ii. p. 41.-Jebel Musa, pen. Sin. I am not satisfied about the specific identity of this Spider ; it is similar to several examples captured by myself in Egypt and in Palestine ; and when the adult male is discovered, possibly it may prove to be undescribed; at present, only having seen the female (in which no structural difference is observable, though it differs somewhat in colours and integument), I include it as a variety of E. solers. 10. Gasteracantha lepida, Cambr. n. sp.- Mangrove-swamps; African border of Bed Sea. • 11. Sparassus linneei, Savign. Egypte, Arachn. p. 160, pl. 6. fig. 2. - H o t springs, Pharaoh's Baths, Cairo. Mr. Lord assures me that he captured this species (of which several examples were contained in his collection) in the water of the above baths, into which they voluntarily plunged. Independently of the high temperature (157° Fahr.) of these waters making this a remarkable fact, it is the first species of this family of Araneidea (Thomisides) in regard to which, as far as my knowledge goes, aquatic habits have been observed. 12. Sphasus alexandrinus, Savign. Egypte, Arachn. p. 142, pl. 4. fig. 1.-Jebel Musa, pen. Sin. 13. Pasithea viridis, Blackw. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. vol. i. no. 6, p. 427.-Jebel Musa, pen. Sin. 14. Lycosa pilipes, Lucas, Explor. en Algerie, Arachnides, p. 109, pl. 2. fig. 8.-Wady Gherandel, pen. Sin., Nasb, Genneh, Jebel Musa, and at Pharaoh's Baths, Cairo. 15. Lycosa preelongipes, Cambr., n. sp.-Wady Nasb, Genneh, Jebel Musa, pen. Sin. |