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to the base (on the outer side) of the digital joint, its point being 

 slightly curved and more prominent ; the digital is of moderate size 

 and ordinary form ; and the palpal organs are neither very prominent 

 nor complex. The fakes are small, divergent, and placed back 

 considerably behind the fore margin of the caput ; the fangs have 

 their bases greatly and abruptly enlarged. The minute eyes of the 

 second row are equidistant between those of the first and third rows, 

 but are inside the straight line formed by the laterals of those two 

 rows. 



The abdomen is of a long oval form, rather flattened above, and 

 projecting over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dark brown 

 colour tinged with yellow ; in some young examples it was jet-black ; 

 its fore half is encircled with a marginal band or stripe of white 

 hairs ; and there are six small bright white spots (also formed by 

 white hairs) on its upper surface ; two of these spots are placed lon- 

 gitudinally on the centre of its fore half ; the foremost of these two 

 spots is sometimes obsolete ; the other four are on the margins of the 

 hinder half, and form a large trapezoid, whose fore side is much the 

 longest ; the underside is paler than the upper, and has an indistinct 

 marginal line of white hairs on either side. 



An adult male and two immature males were found among grass 

 on the banks of the stream flowing from Elisha's Well through the 

 plains of the Jordan. It is a very striking and distinct species ; and 

 it is with much pleasure that I confer upon it a name too well known 

 in the entomological world to need any remark — that of my kind 

 friend H. T. Stainton, Esq., of Mountsfield, Lewisham. 



Salticus congener, sp. nov. 



Female adult, length 2\ lines. 



This Spider is closely allied to S. staintonii, of which, but for 

 M. Simon's decided opinion to the contrary, I should have consi- 

 dered it to be the female. It differs from that species in having the 

 cephalothorax dark brown, uniformly clothed with short greyish- 

 white hairs ; and the abdomen is of a pale dull yellow-brown, simi- 

 larly but more thinly clothed, and striated and mottled obscurely 

 with a paler yellowish colour ; a series of angular lines or chevrons 

 (of which the first is much stronger and more pointed than the rest) 

 are indistinctly visible on the hinder half of the upperside ; and also 

 some pale blotches corresponding to the white spots in -S. staintonii. 



Three examples were found among grass and weeds on the plains 

 of the Jordan. 



Salticus patagiatus, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2£ lines. 



This species is of ordinary form and general structure. 



The cephalothorax is massive ; it projects considerably forwards 

 over the falces ; and the hind slope is exceedingly abrupt ; the sides 

 of the caput and the thoracic portion are of a deep shining reddish 

 black-brown colour, and the upper surface of the caput black, mar- 

 gined on the sides and hinder part (behind the third row of eyes) 



