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abrupt ; the fore part projects over the base of the falces ; and it is 

 of a glossy black colour. The eyes of the second row are each rather 

 nearer to the eye on its side of the third row than to the lateral on 

 the same side of the first, but are in the same straight line. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength ; those of the first 

 pair are the longest and strongest, but not inordinately so ; their co- 

 lour is dark brown, the tarsi of the two hinder pairs being pale 

 yellow ; and they are furnished with hairs, spines, and a terminal 

 claw-tuft. 



The palpi are short, the humeral and cubital joints yellow, and 

 they are furnished with white hairs ; the radial is brown, shorter than 

 the cubital, and produced at its outer extremity into a rather long, 

 slender, slightly tapering, curved, and rather prominent apophysis, 

 whose point is slightly hooked or crotchet-formed. The digital 

 joint is rather large, of a brown-black colour, and has a strong cir- 

 cular indentation or impression at its extremity ; the palpal organs 

 are large and prominent, and extend backwards beneath the radial 

 joint. 



The abdomen is of ordinary form ; its colour is brown -black, with 

 some white squamose hairs towards the fore extremity of the upper- 

 side, and some indistinct pale angular lines or chevrons on the hinder 

 half. The superior spinners are white, tipped with black, the in- 

 ferior ones black. 



A single example of this small but distinct species was found 

 among dwarf herbage at the village of Nain, on the road from 

 Jezreel to Nazareth. 



SALTICUS CLEMENS, Sp. HOV. 



Female adult, length 2-| lines. 



The cephalothorax of this Spider is of the ordinary form ; its colour 

 is yellow, with a paler patch on the occiput ; the upper surface of 

 the caput, or the ocular area, is strongly suffused with black ; and 

 there are several slightly converging black streaks on the hind slope ; 

 the sides also are a little tinged with brown-black. 



Each of the eyes of the second (or intermediate) row is rather 

 nearer to that on its side of the hinder row than to the lateral on the 

 same side of the front row, but is in the same straight line. The 

 legs and palpi are yellow ; the former differ but little in length ; they 

 are moderately long and strong, and are furnished sparingly with hairs 

 and fine spines. Each tarsus ends with a small claw-tuft. The falces 

 are small, conical, and, with the labium, maxillae, and sternum, also 

 of a yellow colour. 



The abdomen is of a duller yellow colour than the cephalothorax, 

 and is finely and thickly striated in a longitudinal direction with 

 dusky yellow-brown. A central longitudinal paler band (being freer 

 from these striations) is indistinctly visible on the upperside, and is 

 divided near its fore extremity by a short red-brown longitudinal line, 

 trifid at its hinder extremity, and followed by several dull yellow- 

 brown angular bars or chevrons. The intermediate spaces between 

 these chevrons are perhaps more prominent and observable than the 



