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Show 1876.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. 565 cephalothorax is also strongly margined with dark brown; and its sides is marked with three short, but distinct, oblique brown bars or stripes joining in at their lower extremity with the lateral brown margins. The surface of the cephalothorax is closely covered with erect bristly hairs. The eyes are in three pairs, in the usual position; the two fore lateral eyes are the largest, and those of the central pair appear to be the smallest, though not much, if any thing, smaller than the hind laterals. The legs are yellow ; the tibiae of the fourth pair are broadly and distinctly banded with brown ; those of the third pair are faintly so banded, while those of the first and second pair are dark yellow-brown with a narrow indistinct band of yellow, the metatarsi also of the first pair being strongly suffused with yellow-brown. The palpi are yellow, annulated with dull brown. The falces yellow, with a considerable part of their foreside yellowish brown. The maxilla, labium, and sternum are yellow. The abdomen is of a deep chocolate-brown above and yellow underneath ; the central longitudinal line of the upperside is a little paler, and has two yellow spots on its fore part, and a yellow longitudinal line on its hinder part; the brown and yellow of the upper- and undersides run into each other in a Vandyke pattern, giving the sides a very distinct curvilinearly striped appearance. The abdomen, like the cephalothorax, is covered thinly with strong erect bristly hairs. A single example of this pretty and very distinct species was found among debris near Cairo in January 1864 ; and I have very great pleasure in naming it after my kind friend Dr. Ludwig Koch, of Niirnberg. Fam. PHOLCIDES. Gen. PHOLCUS, Walck. PHOLCUS SEMICAUDATUS, sp. n. Adult male, length 2 lines. The cephalothorax is of the ordinary form and of a pale straw-yellow colour. The eyes are in the usual general position; three large eyes contiguous to each other in a triangle on a tubercle on either side, and a pair of much smaller size and nearly contiguous, just opposite the inner eyes of the other two groups ; each eye of this pair is rather less than a diameter's distance from the two foremost eyes of the lateral group nearest to it. The legs are very long, exceedingly slender, and furnished with fine hairs ; their colour is similar to that of the cephalothorax, the genual joints are yellow-brown; and the femora and tibiae, especially the former, are distinctly marked with small linear black dots and spots. The falces are suffused with yellow-brown, strongly excavated in front, their fore margin on the outer side terminating in a corneous point, and of a red-brown colour. |
