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Show 1876.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. 559 longitudinal rows of bold whitish spots along the whole length of abdomen ; most of these spots are in fact the enlarged extremities of the usual transverse angular bars or chevrons ; and between each the space is black; there are also some black spots and markings on the sides, the underparts of the abdomen being uuicolorous ; the central longitudinal band has some black spots and markings on its fore part irregularly defining the normal elongate marking; the spinners are yellow, devoid of markings, and those of the superior pair are rather more than double the length of those of the inferior, the second (terminal) joint being smaller, though longer, than the basal one. The female resembles the male in colour and markings ; these are, however, less strong and distinct than in the latter sex, while the legs of the female have the tibiae as well as the femora annulated with dusky blackish, and the underside of the abdomen has two longitudinal lateral lines of the same hue. The genital aperture presents two oval orifices side by side. An adult male and several adult and immature females were found in tufts of coarse grass and dry herbage on the desert near Gebel y Silsilis, Upper Egypt, in March 1864. Gen. TEGENARIA. TEGENARIA PROXIMA. Tegenaria proxima, Cambr. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 217. An adult male of this Spider, which, though exceedingly closely allied to T. derhamii (Scop.), is yet quite distinct, was found in Cairo in January 1864. Gen. T E X T R I X , Sund. TEXTRIX COARCTATA. Aranea coarctata, L. Duf., Sim. Arachn. de France, ii. p. 125. Textrix moggridgii, Cambr. Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 537, pl. xiv. fig. 6. Adult and immature females of a Spider which I believe to be of this species were found among stones and debris at Alexandria in April 1864 ; the adult examples, however, are more brightly coloured than those I have received from Mentone; the cephalothorax and legs being of an orange-yellow brown colour; the fore part of the former (caput) and the falces are tinged strongly with red-brown, and the median line of the fore part on the upperside of the abdomen suffused with rusty red. These differences of colouring are probably dependent on the length of time that had elapsed since the Spider effected the final casting-off of its skin. Gen. ENYO. ENYO NITIDA. Enyo nitida, Aud. in Sav. Egypte, p. 135, pl. iii. fig. 7. Clotho nitida, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. 639. An adult female of an Enyo which I believe to be of this species was found under a stone near Alexandria. It may, however, possibly be 37* |
