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Show 1876.] REV. O. P.CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. 617 Clk. ; the height of the clypeus equals, or nearly so, the diameter of one of the fore central eyes. The ocular area is broader than long ; but the length of the posterior and anterior rows of eyes is equal; the eyes of the intermediate row are rather nearer to the posterior than to the anterior row. The legs are short and strong; their relative length appears to be 4, 3, 1,2; they are banded alternately, though not very distinctly, with yellow and yellow-brown ; they are armed with spines (but most of the hairy clothing was absent) ; and each tarsus has a black scopula beneath the terminal claws. The palpi (in an undeveloped state) are yellow, the digital joint being of large size. The abdomen is black-brown on the upperside; a dark oblong marking along the centre of the fore half is followed to the spinners by a series of short, pale, angular bars, or chevrons, running one into the other and forming a dentated band ; it is probable that this band is clothed with white hairs in uninjured examples ; the sides are brown, marked with one or two oblique pale stripes ; and the underside is pale luteous, spotted thinly with small black-brown spots, which concentrate and form an undefined band along the middle. The spinners are prominent, of a dark-brown colour, tipped with dull yellowish white. A single example was found near Alexandria. ATTUS MEMORIALIS, sp. n. Adult female, length slightly over 2 lines. The cephalothorax of this Spider is of ordinary form ; in the two female examples found it was wholly (probably accidentally) denuded of hairy clothing ; its colour is dark yellow-brown, with two longitudinal, pretty-well defined, dull orange-yellow stripes reaching from the hinder extremity (where they converge a little) to the ocular area, which is jet-black ; the fore part of this area is prominent, and the clypeus (whose height is less than half the diameter of one of the fore central eyes) retreats ; besides the two longitudinal stripes, there is a broad marginal one of the same hue on each side. The eyes are in the usual position; the ocular area is broader than long, its posterior side being a very little shorter than the anterior; the eyes of the intermediate row are a little closer to the lateral eye of the posterior than to that of the anterior row on either side, but are in the same straight line with them ; the eyes of the anterior row are bordered with white cilia ; and probably the yellow stripes on the cephalothorax are usually clothed with white or grey or yellowish hairs, the remaining portions with dark brown ones ; but, in the absence of an uninjured specimen, this is uncertain. The legs are moderately strong, and not very long ; their relative length appears to be 4, 1, 3, 2, the difference, if any, between those of the first and third pairs being very slight ; the colour is yellow, without any markings or annulation : all the ordinary |
