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 perceiving the difference between the present species and the one known to himself as N. cæmentaria, Latr., concludes it to be identical with N. meridionalis, Sim. Examples, however, of this latter, from M. Simon's cabinet, show that they are very distinct.

On N. meridionalis, Sim., see p. 289; and on N. cæmentaria, Sim., p. 280, M. Simon has, I understand, subsequently admitted the error of his conclusion, published l.c. supra.

Habitat. San Remo, Mentone, Cannes, Hyères, and Marseilles.

, sp. n., Plate XIX., fig. D, p. 229.

Adult male, length slightly above 4-1/2 lines.

Cephalothorax oval, truncate at each end; moderately convex above, the profile line forming a pretty even, sloping, curved line, but flattish in the middle near the thoracic fovea, which is of a strongly curved form; the other normal indentations are not strong, though fairly defined; the colour of the cephalothorax is yellow-brown, palish and clothed with yellowish-grey adpressed hairs on the margins, and inclining to orange on the caput. The clypeus is somewhat steep, about equal to half the height of the facial space, and the sides of the caput are dark blackish-brown, leaving a longitudinal, central reddish orange-brown band tapering to the thoracic fovea.

The upper and hinder part of the thorax is strongly suffused with brown, leaving broad but irregular pale lateral margins; there is a group of strong bristles directed forwards from the margin of the clypeus, and two or three more in the median line behind the ocular area.