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with a semicircular band of paler brown, clothed with white hairs ; 

 the eyes of the second row are equidistant from those of the first 

 and third, and as nearly as possible in a straight line with the late- 

 rals of those rows. 



The legs are moderately long and strong, and of nearly equal 

 length and strength ; they are of a deep reddish-brown colour, the 

 tarsi pale dull yellow, and are furnished with hairs and fine spines, 

 each tarsus ending with a claw-tuft. 



The palpi are short and rather slender ; the radial and digital 

 joints are darker-coloured than the legs, the cubital and humeral 

 joints being of a pale dull yellowish brown, furnished conspicuously 

 with white hairs, as is also the extremity of the digital joint ; the 

 radial is shorter than the cubital, and has its outer extremity pro- 

 longed into a long and strong apophysis, gradually tapering to a 

 sharp point ; the digital joint is small but of ordinary form ; the 

 palpal organs are simple but prominent behind, and project consi- 

 derably backwards beneath the radial joint. 



The abdomen is of a short oval form, slopes rather quickly from 

 its fore extremity, where it is high, to the spinners (when looked at 

 in profile), and fits closely on to the hind slope of the cephalothorax ; 

 it is of a brownish-black colour, thinly clothed above with yellowish- 

 red hairs ; a strong crescent of white hairs margins the foreside ; a 

 little way behind this is a transverse yellowish-white curved bar, 

 which spans the whole of the upperside ; and this is succeeded by a 

 close series of strongish angular bars or chevrons on the hinder half, 

 on which there is also a curved longitudinal lateral stripe on either 

 side, connected with the chevrons by a short bar or dentation of the 

 lateral stripes ; the sides and underside are striated with longitudinal 

 lines of reddish hairs. 



Two adult males were found at Tiberias, and an immature male 

 near Nazareth, among dwarf plants on the waste between that and 

 Mount Tabor. The pattern on the abdomen is less distinct in some 

 examples than in others ; and the lateral stripes are sometimes simply 

 replaced by an oblique blotch or stripe. It is allied to S. adansonii 

 (Sav.), but easily distinguishable by the larger size of the digital 

 joint. 



Saltictjs nepos, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2 lines. 



The cephalothorax is short and massive, but of ordinary form ; it 

 is of a yellow-brown colour, clothed with short yellowish hairs ; a 

 transverse somewhat crescent-shaped band of whitish hairs encircles 

 the hinder part of the caput ; the clypeus is furnished with longish 

 prominent white bristly hairs ; on either side of the caput, below the 

 small eye of the second row, is a group of a few long, strongish, 

 curved, black bristly hairs directed forwards, having a horn-like 

 appearance ; and in front of each of these horn-like tufts, but de- 

 tached from it, is a single bristle of the same nature and having the 

 same direction. 



The eyes of the front row are pearl-white and encircled with 



