632 NEW ARANEIDiE OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Family SALTICID^. 



Genus A T T u s, 8im. 



Attus splendens, sp. nov. 



(Plate XLix. figs. 3, oa.) 



(J. Cephalothorax 2^ mm. long, 2 mm. bi'oad; abdomen 2^ mm. 

 long, 2 mm. bi'oad. 



Ceplmlothorax steel-blue, broad, glossy. Caput steel-blue 

 banded across the front with a broad curved bar of bright 

 scarlet granules and scale-like hairs, the curvature directed for- 

 wards; in front, and surrounding the anterior row of eyes, there 

 is a brush of short tawny hairs. Chipeus broad, high, rather 

 flat, narrowest at its posterior extremity; at the junction of the 

 cephalic and thoracic segments there is a broad but somewhat 

 shallow depression, surrounded by a series of four white tufts or 

 hairy brushes, the outer margins of which are surrounded with 

 tawny hairs; sides steel-blue moderately clothed with tawny hairs. 

 Marginal hand fringed with hoary pubescence. 



Eyes arranged in thi-ee rows, and nearly forming a square, 

 those of the front row of a bright emerald green ; of these 

 the two median eyes are sensibly the largest; the two comprising 

 the second row are much the smallest of the group and are also 

 of a bright emerald green; the third row are somewhat smaller 

 than the lateral eyes of the anterior series, and are of an opaline- 

 tint. 



Legs moderately long and strong, yellow-brown, clothed witli 

 hoary hairs, and armed with short stout spines; relative lengths 

 3, 4, 2, 1. 



Palpi concolorous, short ; radial joints rather longer than 

 cul)ital, thickly clothed with long white hairs on the upper surface, 

 and very sparingl}- clothed with exceedingly short white hairs on 

 the under side; coj)ulatory organ a large, oblong corneous lobe 

 hollowed on the under side and rather complicated. 



