326 rev. o. p. Cambridge on the [Feb. 20, 



front, and of a sharp pointed oval shape behind ; it is glossy, of a 

 deep blackish red-brown colour, with a few short pale squamose hairs 

 on its upper surface. 



A single adult male of this most interesting and distinct Spider 

 was found under a stone at Hebron. 



Salticus putus, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 1 1 line. 



In the large upper area of the caput this Spider shows a near ap- 

 proach to the group Rhanis ; but the relative sizes of the cephalo- 

 thorax and abdomen are different; the latter is smaller than the 

 former, and of the ordinary oviform type, and does not fit on (as it 

 were) to the cephalothorax ; this is deep but flattened at the top ; 

 and the caput, although comprising a great portion of the cephalo- 

 thorax, is yet proportionally not as large as in Rhanis ; and the small 

 eyes of the second row, instead of being close to the laterals of the 

 front row, and so far more widely removed from those of the hinder 

 row, are nearly equidistant between them. 



The cephalothorax is black, and not very thickly clothed with 

 yellowish squamose hairs ; the upper part of the hinder slope has a 

 short white bar, composed of white hairs. The abdomen is black- 

 brown, pretty densely clothed with squamose hairs ; there is a white 

 marking, formed of white hairs, at the centre of the fore part of its 

 upperside, and on either side of this white marking is a curved white 

 bar ; round the shoulders (as it were) of the abdomen there is also a 

 small tuft of white hairs at its extremity on either side of the spin- 

 ners ; the underside is whitish, clothed with short adpressed hairs. 



The eyes of the hinder row are wider apart than the length of the 

 front row ; and those of the second row are in a straight line (on 

 either side) with the laterals of the front and hinder rows. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength ; they are of a 

 yellow-brown colour, darker at the articulations of the joints, the 

 metatarsi and tarsi being paler than the rest ; they are furnished 

 with hairs of various lengths ; and the tibiae and metatarsi of the first 

 pair, which are much longer and stronger than the rest, have some 

 strong spines beneath them ; the legs of the first pair, besides being 

 longer and stronger than the others, are much darker in colour, 

 being of a deep red-brown ; the tarsi all terminate with a claw-tuft. 

 The palpi are neither very long nor strong ; they are of a black- 

 brown colour ; the radial joint is shorter than the cubital, and has 

 at its outer extremity a long, pointed, straight apophysis ; the digital 

 is rather large, and longer than the radial and cubital joints toge- 

 ther ; the palpal organs are well developed, but simple in form and 

 structure. 



A single adult male was found on short herbage among stones at 

 Rasheiya, on the skirts of Mount Hermon. 



Saltictjs delectus, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2 lines. 



In form and general structure this species is of the ordinary type. 



