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Salticus, Lat. Jlttus, Walck. 



Four eyes, the two intermediate of which are the largest, on the 

 anterior part of the thorax in a transverse line, and the others near 

 its lateral edges, two on each side; they also form a large square 

 open behind, or a parabola. The ligula is very obtuse or truncated 

 on the summit. There are but two hooks to the extremity of the 

 tarsi. Several of the males have very large chelicerae. 



The thorax of some is very thick and sloping, (en talus) and much 

 inclined at base. 



Salt. Sloanei; Jlranea sanguinolenta, L. Black; a white line 



formed by down on each side of the thorax; the abdomen of a 



cinnabar-red, with an elongated black spot on the middle of the 



back. South of France, on stones(l). 



The thorax of the others is much flattened, insensibly sloping at 



its base. 



Sometimes their body is simply oval, and furnished with hairs or 

 thick down; the legs short and robust. 



Saltique chevronne; Jlranea scenica, L.; Jlraignee a chevrons, 

 Geoff".; Jlraignee a bandes blanches, De Geer, Insect., VII, xvii, 

 8, 9. About two lines and a half long; above, black; margin 

 of the thorax, and three lines en chevron on the top of the ab- 

 domen, white. Very common(2). 

 Sometimes the body is narrow, elongated, almost cylindrical and 

 shorn ; the legs long and slender. 



Salt, formicarius; Jlranea formicaria, De Geer, Insect., VII, 

 xviii, 1, 2; Jltte fourmi, Walck., Faun. Franc., Aran., V, 1 

 3. Reddish; fore part of the thorax black; black band and two 

 white spots on the abdomen(3). 



the Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat.; the other, Eresus imperialis V, lxix, 2 is closely 

 allied to the JLranea nigra, Petagna, above quoted. These two species are figured 

 in the Faune Frangaise, Aran., pi. IV, 3, 4, 5. See also on same plate, fig. 7, the 

 Erese cinabre. 



( 1 ) This division comprizes the following Atti of Walckenaer: bicolor, chaly- 

 beus, niger, cupreus, muscorum, the Jlranea gossipes, De Geer. 



(2) Add, Jlttus tardigradus, Walck., Hist, des Aran., V, iv, female. See his 

 Tabl. des Aran. 



(3) For the remaining species of this subgenus, see the Aran, of the Faune 

 Frangaise. M. Walckenaer, author of that portion of the work, in his Tabl. des 

 Aran., mentions a species enclosed in amber. 



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