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chevrons themselves, and, together with the space before the outer 

 limbs of the trifid portion of the red-brown line, are perhaps more 

 calculated to catch the eye as the distinctive pattern than if we take 

 the yellow portions to be the ground-colour, and describe the pattern 

 as brown. The abdomen is clothed thinly with short yellowish and 

 greyish hairs, with a few long blackish recurved ones on the fore 

 part of the upperside. 



A single adult female of this Spider, which is allied to S. frontalis 

 (Walck.), £. reticulatus (Bl.), and A. gambosus (Sim.), was found 

 on low plants on the plains of the Jordan. 



Salticus conveniens, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2 lines. 



The cephalothorax of this species is massive, but when looked at 

 from above and behind is of the ordinary form ; in profile, however, 

 the centre of the ocular area is transversely and perceptibly higher 

 than the rest, which thus slopes pretty sharply forwards to the front 

 row of eyes ; it is jet-black, with a large oblong area running from 

 the hinder eyes to the lower hind margin, densely clothed with fine 

 sandy -yellow hairs or coarse pubescence ; and the whole of the surface 

 of the cephalothorax, especially the ocular area and the margin of the 

 clypeus, is furnished with prominent black bristly hairs, directed for- 

 wards. 



The eyes of the second row are very minute and difficult to be di- 

 stinguished ; each of them is nearer to the hinder eye on its side than 

 to the lateral on the same side of the foremost row, but is very 

 nearly in the same straight line with these, very slightly, if any thing, 

 within it. 



The legs are rather long and moderately strong ; their relative 

 length is apparently 3, 4, 1, 2 ; and they are furnished pretty freely 

 with long hairs (both black, white, and yellowish) and with spines ; 

 they are of a yellow colour, irregularly marked and spotted with 

 blackish brown ; and each tarsus ends with a black claw-tuft. 



The palpi are neither very long nor strong ; their colour is yellow, 

 thickly clothed with short, strong, bristly white hairs ; the radial 

 joint is shorter than the cubital, and has its outer extremity produced 

 into a very short but strongish apophysis, bluntish-pointed at its ex- 

 tremity, which is bent downwards ; the digital joint is not large ; it 

 is of the ordinary form, but is abruptly truncated at its extremity, the 

 truncated part apparently depressed and fringed over thickly with an 

 edging of fine whitish hairs ; the palpal organs are highly developed 

 and very prominent, though simple in structure ; their hinder por- 

 tion is nearly globular, and extends backwards to the underside of 

 the cubital joint ; their fore part is depressed and somewhat pointed. 

 The falces are small, conical, and of a black-brown colour. 



The abdomen is of the ordinary size and form ; its ground-colour is 

 black, but (when not rubbed off) it is densely clothed with a dull 

 reddish sandy-yellow pubescence of short hairs ; the hinder part of 

 the upperside has faint indications of a double longitudinal series of 

 alternate paler yellowish and brown -blackish spots ; and there are 



