396 Mr. J. Blackwall on Sicilian Spiders. 



having a tinge of red. The legs are hairy and robust, espe- 

 cially those of the first pair, which are provided with a few 

 spines on the inferior surface of the metatarsi and tarsi ; they 

 are of a dark -brown hue tinged with red, the tibias, metatarsi, 

 and tarsi of the second, third, and fourth pairs being much 

 the palest ; the first pair is the longest, then the fourth, and 

 the second and third pairs, which are the shortest, are nearly 

 equal in length ; each tarsus is terminated by two curved 

 claws, below which there is a small scopula. The palpi are 

 long and resemble the legs in colour ; the humeral joint is 

 curved downwards ; the radial is much smaller than the cu- 

 bital joint, and projects an obtuse apophysis from its extremity 

 on the outer side, which is directed forwards ; the digital joint 

 has a short oval form and brown hue ; it is convex and hairy 

 externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, 

 which are moderately developed, not very complex in struc- 

 ture, prominent, particularly at the base, and of a brown co- 

 lour faintly tinged with red. The abdomen is long, subcylin- 

 drical, tapering slightly to the spinners, and is clothed with 

 adpressed hairs ; it is of a brown colour, the under part being 

 the palest, and has a large spot of a dull-yellowish hue above 

 the coccyx. 



Salticus nitens. 



SalticHS nitens, Blackw., Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, vol. x. p. 415. 

 Heliophanus nitens, Koch, Die Arachn. Band xiv. p. 63, tab. 477. fig. 1319. 



Family Thomisid^e. 



Genus Thomisus, Walck. 



Thomisus diversus, n. sp. PI. VIII. fig. 3. 



Length of the female -\ of an inch ; length of the cephalo- 

 thorax x-o, breadth -Jq ; breadth of the abdomen -^-^ ; length of 

 a leg of the second pair -^^ ; length of a leg of the third pair •^. 



The cephalothorax is slightly compressed before, truncated 

 in front, rounded on the sides, abruptly depressed at the base, 

 moderately convex, glossy, with a few black bristles distri- 

 buted over its surface, and a row directed forwards from its 

 anterior margin ; it is of a dark-brown colour mottled with 

 yellowish- white ; a whitish line passes transversely between 

 the two rows of eyes, and a broad yellowish-white band, whose 

 anterior extremity comprises several longitudinal brown streaks, 

 extends along the middle ; it becomes contracted at the com- 

 mencement of the posterior slope, and then gradually increases 

 in breadth to the base. The eyes are disposed on the anterior 

 part of the cephalothorax in two transverse curved rows form- 

 ing a crescent whose convexity is directed forwards ; the four 



