M a t e r i a l: ISRAEL: female holotype - "`En Kerem, 10. X. 1959, P. AMITAI. Coll. HUJ 14241"

Diagnosis. Face with dorsal orbital setae reddish, laterally and medially whitish. Clypeus brown, without contrasting setae. Epigynal grooves rimmed around, anteriorly broad with antero-lateral angles expanded, narrowing posteriorly, septum narrow with edges parallel.

FEMALE

Frontal aspect similar to Ph. ferberorum but better preserved and more distinct: AME surrounded dorsally by longer reddish setae, laterally and medially by whitish, ventrally by sparser, short and very inconspicuous whitish setae; ALE surrounded dorsally by longer red, laterally and ventrally by shorter, whitish setae; clypeus almost bald, brown with two, lighter pigmented spots, medially (perhaps an individual feature), with a few thin, very sparse and inconspicuous whitish, adpressed setae, not affecting its appearance, and a few brown bristles; chelicerae brown; pedipalps brown, lighter patella with whitish setae and lighter extremities of segments; legs I brown with remnants of inconspicuous, transverse rows of white, adpressed, thin setae across the prolateral edge of the tibia and patella. Ventral aspect light brown. Legs I-IV similar to Ph. ferberorum but with slightly more contrasting, light stripes and annuli. Epigyne with two posterior grooves, about half the length of the epigyne, expanded angularly antero-laterally, closed posteriorly by a rim, divided by a narrow septum; copulatory opening, narrower than in Ph. fulvastra and Ph. pori, narrowing funnel-like and passing into the first convoluted chamber located lateral to the median chain of chambers, but not broader than them, the median chain ending at the level of the rim of the copulatory opening.

Distribution Israel: En Kerem.