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than the laterals; round the eyes of the front row are some coarsish 

 yellow-red cilia or hairs. 



The legs are moderately long and strong, not differing greatly in 

 length ; their relative length is apparently 4, 3, 1, 2, or 4, 1, 3, 2 

 (it was difficult to say exactly which) ; they are of a yellow-brown 

 colour deepening to dark brown black ; those of the first two pairs 

 are darker than the rest ; the legs are furnished with hairs, spines 

 and a claw-tuft at the extremity of each tarsus. 



The abdomen is of a deep blackish yellow-brown colour above, 

 with three narrow longitudinal white stripes (a central, and a lateral 

 one on either side) ; the sides are white ; and the underside is almost 

 wholly occupied by a broad longitudinal black band. 



The palpi are short, moderately strong, and of a black colour; 

 the cubital joint is clothed with white hairs on the upperside ; and 

 the radial is produced at its outer extremity into a short, strong 

 blunt-pointed apophysis, bifid at its extremity ; the radial as well as 

 the digital joint (which last is of ordinary form) are furnished with 

 long bristly black hairs ; and the extremity of the digital is also fur- 

 nished with white hairs ; the hairs on the radial joint make the 

 apophysis at its outer extremity difficult to be seen readily. The 

 palpal organs are well developed and prominent at their base, but 

 simple in structure. 



A single example was met with among stones at Jerusalem. 



Salticus staintonii, sp. nov. (Plate XIV. fig. 20.) 



Male adult, length 2| lines. 



This Spider belongs to a group of the genus Attus (Sim.) not 

 yet, as far as I am aware, represented by any ascertained European 

 examples. The group is characterized by a longer and more flattened 

 form of cephalothorax and abdomen than is possessed by other 

 groups of At tides. The cephalothorax is in itself short, and, when 

 looked at from above, rather of a roundish oval form ; its upper 

 surface is flat, but the hind slope tolerably abrupt ; it is of a deep 

 rich brown on the sides with a black margin : the caput is black 

 and encircled by a band of white hairs running round in front imme- 

 diately beneath the eyes, and ending on either side near behind the 

 eyes of the hinder row ; at the centre of the back of the caput is a 

 white spot similarly formed. 



The legs vary a good deal in length ; those of the second, third, 

 and fourth pairs are short, those of the third pair apparently the 

 shortest; they are yellow, furnished with a few hairs and small 

 spines ; those of the first pair are much longer than the rest and of 

 inordinate strength, especially the femoral, genual, and tibial joints ; 

 they are of a deep rich brown colour ; the tibial and metatarsal 

 joints are furnished with short strong spines, each of which springs 

 from a distinct tubercle ; all the tarsi end with a strongish claw-tuft. 



The palpi are short and not very strong ; they are of a yellow- 

 brown colour, the digital joint being the palest ; the radial is shorter 

 than the cubital joint, and has its outer extremity produced into a 

 short, tapering, pointed apophysis, whose base adheres very closely 



