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in fronte et in clypeo nigri sunt, pneterca ad maximam partem 

 tcstacei. Sternum fcrruginco-fuscum, ])ili8 nigris conspersum. 

 3I(indibul(f' nignc, tubereulo basali rufo-fusco ; pilis nigris sparsa? 

 sunt, sulco unguiculari rufo-ciliato. MaxiUce et labium nigra, 

 apice picca. Palpi picci, basi clariores, parte tarsali nigra ; ad 

 maximam ])artem sordide olivaceo-nigricanti-pilosi et -pubescentes 

 sunt. J\des, metatarsis et tarsis exceptis, in fundo testaceo- 

 fusci, cinereo-tcstaceo-pubesccntes et -pilosi, tibiis pauUo obscu- 

 rioribus et donsius pilosis, femoribus subter plus minus obsolete 

 nigricanti-punclatis ; metatarsi et tarsi picei sunt, scopulis oliva- 

 ceo-nigris. Aculoi pedum palporumque nigro-picei vel nigri. 

 Abdomen in fundb totum cinereo- vel olivaceo-testaceum, pictura 

 distineta nulla ; pilis flaventibus undique vestitum est. Mamillce 

 fusco-testaceit?, inferiores subter fuscaj. 

 $ ad. — Lg. Corp. 25: Ig. cephaloth. 10, lat. ej. 10, lat. front. 6; 

 Ig. abd. 16, lat. ej. 11^ millim. Ped. I. 38|, II. 42|, III. 31, 

 IV. 3-i| millim. longi ; pat. + tib. II. 15, 'pat. + tib. IV. 11| 

 millim. 



The collection contains several examples, adult and joun», 

 of both sexes. The males are 15^-18^ millim. long, with 

 the cephalothorax as long as broad, and as higli as in the 

 females ; one of them has two yellowish spots on either side 

 of the longitudinal yellowish band on the back of the 

 abdomen at its base. Young specimens are almost totally 

 of a yellowish or brownish-yellow colour. 



Of this species only one specimen, a male, had hitherto 

 been found ; it was captured at Me-tan-ja, in Burma, by Mr. 

 L. Fea. 



Tribus Sal t i a e a d ^. 



Fam. Salticoidae. 



12. Salticus modestus, sp. n. 



Cephalothorace piceo, alho-pidiescente, in lateribv.s late pallidiore ; 

 abdomine cpwque piceo et albo-pvbescente, ovato, non constncto ; 

 pedibus piceis, testaceo-lineatis vel apice j?lus ininu-s late testaceis, 

 troclianteribus 4' paris Jlavo-testaceis, tibiis V paris subter 6 pari- 

 bus aculeonim longonim armatis, metatarsis Jiujus jyfiris 2 ptaribiis 

 aculeorum ejusmodi, pedibus 2' j^ftris subter aculeis debilibus, 2 . 2. 

 in metatarsis et saltern 1 . 1 . 1 in tibiis tnunitis. — 5 ^w^. Long, 

 saltem 4| millim. 



Feminajun. — CepAa7of^ora:r pauUo plus duplo longior quam latior, 

 paullo pone medium sat fortiter angustatus, parte cephaHca, quae 

 parte thoracica non parum altior est, desuper visa lateribus psene 

 parallelis anteriora versus vix vel parum angustata, fronte leviter 

 rotundata, pone oculos posticos (qui paullo ante medium cephalo- 



