122 NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 



The abdomen is oval, clothed thinly with fine short hairs. 



The female is slightly larger than the male, but similar in 

 general form and colours. The caput, however, is less prominent, 

 being only very slightly rounded above, behind the ocular region. 

 The genital aperture is small, semi-circular, and placed at the 

 hinder extremity of a largish, nearly circular, rather prominent 

 area. 



An adult male of this distinct little spider, new to science, was 

 found at Hoddesdon, in Hertfordshire, by Mr. F. M. Campl>ell, 

 and kindly sent to me in 1887, and very shortly after I received an 

 example of each sex from Major-General A. W. M. Van Hasselt 

 from Holland. It is closely allied to Wcdckeniiera elegans (Cambr.), 

 a German species ; but it differs both in the form of the caput and 

 of the palpi and palpal organs. 



FAM: SALTICID.E. 



GENUS PELLENES (Sim.) 



PELLENES TRIPUNCTATUS ("Walck. ) 



PI. A, fig. 9. 

 Attus tripundatus (Walck.), Ins. Apt. ii., p. 418. 



crucigerus Walck., Ins : Apt : ii., p. 420. 

 Pellenes tripunctatus Sim, " Arachn. de France," torn, iii., p. 94. 

 Adult male, length 2| to 2| lines ; female 3 lines. 

 Ceplialothorax longer than broad, massive, roundish oval, rather 

 truncated in front, profile of the upper part curved, and sloping 

 over to the anterior eyes. The height of the clypeus is equal to 

 about half the diameter of one of the two large anterior eyes. The 

 hinder slope is steep and very slightly incurved. The colour of 

 the cephalothorax is black, clothed (but not densely) with rather 

 golden-yellowish adpressed hairs and, thinly, with some long 

 prominent dark ones. In front of the ocular area in the region of 

 the anterior row of eyes it is clothed with bright scarlet hairs, and 

 a well defined transverse stripe of shining white ones runs across 

 immediately above the falces and is continued in a more attenuated 

 form all round the margin on each side. 



