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with yellowish-red hairs ; the eyes of the front row are encircled 

 with bright shining scarlet hairs ; and a large, somewhat oblong, 

 transverse spot or patch of pure white squamose hairs occupies the 

 centre of the ocular area ; also close behind each eye of the hinder 

 row is another, much smaller white spot of the same nature. 



The legs are brownish yellow, the femora of the first pair (which, 

 like those of many other species of this group, have the femora, 

 genua, and tibiae inordinately strong) being blackish brown ; their 

 relative length appeared to be 1, 3, 2, 4 ; and they are furnished 

 with hairs (those on the tibiae and femora of the first pair form- 

 ing longitudinal fringes), also with spines, and a claw-tuft at the end 

 of each tarsus. The falces are of ordinary form, and of a red- 

 brown colour, ornamented with longitudinal rows of white squamose 

 hairs. 



The palpi are short and rather strong ; the cubital joint is fur- 

 nished above with white hairs ; the radial, which is shorter than the 

 cubital, has its outer extremity produced into a strong and rather 

 long but not very sharp-pointed apophysis, which curves upwards 

 close by the side of the digital joint ; this joint is of ordinary form, 

 and contains the palpal organs, which are simple in structure. 



The abdomen is of a short oval form, of a deep black-brown colour 

 above, clothed with glossy scarlet hairs ; a central longitudinal and 

 somewhat tapering band clothed with white hairs begins a little way 

 behind the fore margin, and ends just above the spinners ; this band 

 is finely dentated on its margins ; the upperside is completely sepa- 

 rated from the sides by a band of white squamose hairs, which runs 

 round the fore margin (where it is broadest) as well as round the 

 lateral margins ; the portion of this marginal band or stripe nearest 

 the spinners on either side is formed by a separate short stripe, 

 which overlaps the inner portion ; the sides are of a somewhat pale 

 vinous-brown colour striated with lines of white squamose hairs ; and 

 a broad central longitudinal band of the same kind occupies the 

 underside. 



A single example of this very striking and pretty species was 

 found among stones on the skirts of the Lebanon, near Ain-Ata. 



I have much pleasure in connecting this Spider with the name of 

 M. Eugene Simon, who has paid such great and careful attention to 

 the family Salticides. 



Salticus particeps, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length \\ line. 



This Spider is closely allied to, but quite distinct from, <S. bres- 

 nieri (Luc). The cephalothorax is oblong, not so deep, nor the 

 hind slope so abrupt as in many others of this genus ; it is of a deep 

 brown colour, the caput black ; on the cephalothorax are four lon- 

 gitudinal white lines or stripes, one on either side a little above the 

 margins, and continued in front close beneath the eyes, where it is 

 formed by squamose hairs ; another white stripe runs from each eye 

 of the fore central pair backwards, close inside the eyes of the hinder 

 row, quite to the hinder margin ; these two stripes are narrower 



