202 T. THORELL, 
nus, that name not being unfit for the animal to which it has been applied, 
and having been published long before the name Chersis. 
The genus Palpimanus is extremely interesting, not only on account 
of the well known singular form of its first pair of legs, but also for cer- 
tain characteristics, which mark it as a connecting-link between Zresine 
and Attoide. The agreement with these last in the absence of an infra- 
mammillary organ and calamistrum, we have already mentioned: also the 
close position of the 4 anterior eyes, of which the 2 central ones are larger 
than the other 6, shows a tendency to similitude to the Attoide. The fe- 
male’s palpi are incrassated outwards, flattened on the underside, and, like 
those of the last-mentioned spiders, destitute of a claw at the extremity. 
In the Eresine, as we have already observed, the fasciculus unguicularis 
or claw-tuft usually found in the Attoide, is wanting: it is also absent in 
Palpimanus; but the peculiarly formed hairs of which it is composed are 
found in that genus, though they have been transferred to another place. 
The broad compressed metatarsus has in fact (in JP. gibbulus) both its su- 
perior and inferior edge covered with hairs which rapidly dilate to oval or 
spade-like blades, and a band of such hairs, enclosed by longer, pointed 
bristles, is continued also along the upper edge of the tibia and patella. 
These hairs are longer on the upper edge of the metatarsus, where they 
are mixed with numerous longer, pointed bristles, than on its underside, 
where they are closer, shorter and of uniform length, and where only a few 
longer, pointed bristles occur; they accordingly here form a scopula, which 
is continued under a part (the base) of the tarsus itself. This joint is else 
only covered with pointed hairs and bristles. 
The claws, as is known, are but 2 in number on the tarsi of the 
six posterior legs. They are weaker than those of the Hresine, and stouter 
than those of the Aftoidæ. They are rather large, of uniform breadth, and 
curved in the form of a semicircle; the outer claw has (in P. gibbulus) on 
the 4" pair of legs about 7 teeth, the inner 6; on the 2™ and 3" pairs 
the teeth are less numerous (5 and 4 on the 2" pair) These teeth are 
conieal, rather short and far apart. à; 
According to Durour’s frequently repeated statement, P. gibbulus 
differs from all other spiders by having no claws on the first pair of legs. 
This is nevertheless so far from being the case, that this spider has really 
no less than three claws on the first pair of legs, but only two on the suc- 
ceeding pairs! In this respect Palpimanus probably stands quite alone 
in the order of spiders. 'The claws on the 1* pair are however so small 
that they are quite concealed by the hairs at the extremity of the tarsus, 
