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Show 624 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. [Jlllie 20, a small black scopula beneath the tarsal claws, which have only a single, scarcely visible denticulation near the middle of their underside. The palpi are slender, of moderate length, and fringed thickly on each side with coarse white hairs. The falces are deep reddish black-brown, the maxilla and labium being dark yellow-brown, tipped with yellowish-white, and the sternum dull orange-yellow. The abdomen is yellow, slightly suffused with yellow-brown on the upperside, which has an indistinct and rather irregular marginal brownish line, enclosing nearly its whole area, the enclosed space being narrower behind than before, and containing a longitudinal central tapering band, very faintly defined by two lines of a slightly paler hue than the rest; the sides are marked with a few faint, brownish, horizontal lines or short stripes ; the underside is yellow, immaculate, the spinners short and of a yellow-brown colour ; the genital aperture is of a transverse oval form, and connected with a rather large dark yellow-brown somewhat quadrate area. Several adult and immature females, with an immature male, were found near Cairo. Gen. EPIBLEMUM, Hentz (Calliethera, C. Koch). E P I B L E M U M TR1CINCTUM. Calliethera tricincta, C. Koch, Die Arachn. xiii. p. 50, pl. xliv. fig. 1117. Two adult females of this species were found near Alexandria. It is very nearly allied to E. scenicum, Koch., but may easily be distinguished by the oblique lateral white stripes uniting and forming transverse bands across the abdomen. EPIBLEMUM PALUDIVAGUM. Salticuspaludivagus, Luc. Explor. Alger, p. 167, pl. viii. fig. 7. A single adult female (concluded by M. Simon to be of this species) was found near Alexandria. Gen. HELIOPHANUS, C. Koch. HELIOPHANUS DECORATUS. Salticus cupreus, Sav. et Aud. Egypte, p. 171, pl. vii. fig. 15. Heliophanus decoratus, L. Koch, JEgyptische und abyss. Arachn. 1875, p. 87, pl. vii. fig. 8. Adult examples of both sexes were found among plants on the walls of the fortifications near Alexandria. There is no doubt about the distinctness of this Spider from H. cupreus, Walck. (Europe) ; and I feel confident that it is the same as that described and figured by Savigny and Audouin, and (lately) by Dr. L. Koch (loc. cit. supra). It is very nearly allied to, perhaps identical with, H.facetus, Cambr., found in Palestine. |