526 DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW ARANEID^E, 



fine hoary hairs, with a few long coarse dark brown hairs or 



bristles interspersd. 



Epigyne slightly elevated, dark brown. 



^a6.— Guildford. 



Family SALTICID^. 



Subfamily ATTID^. 



Genus A T T u s, Simon. 



Attus flavicruris, sp. nov. 



(Plate XVIII., fig. 2.) 



9. Cephalothorax 2|^ mm. long, 2 mm. broad- abdomen 3 J mm. 

 long, 2^ mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax ^^ellow-brown, fringed in front with rather long 

 white hairs. Caput between the eyes yellow-brown, and furnished 

 with a few short hoary scale-like hairs, lateral ocular area jet 

 black ; sides yellow-brown, fringed with short scale-like hoary 

 hairs. Clypeus yellow-brown, retreating; the junction of cephalic 

 and thoracic segments indicated by a somewhat shallow depression. 



Eyes black, almost forming a square ; the front lateral eyes 

 placed rather lower down than the posterior ones; central eyes, 

 which are the smallest of the group, seated slightly within a 

 straight line drawn through their front and near lateral neigh- 

 bours; front median ej^es the largest of the group. 



Leys pale yellow, moderately long and strong, armed with 

 someAvhat darker, long and strong spines, and clothed with fine 

 yellowish hairs; relative lengths 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Palpi short, similar in colour and armature to legs. 



Falces short, reddish-brown, conical, placed far back behind 

 the frontal margin. 



Maxillce yellowish-brown, somewhat darker at base, club-shaped; 

 inner margins towards apex thickly fringed with yellowish hairs;, 

 there are also a few rather long concolorous hairs distributed over 

 their outer and lateral surfaces. 



Labium concolorous, rather long, conical, arched, and furnished 

 with a few rather long coarse hairs. 



