1872.] SPIDERS OF PALESTINE AND SYRIA. 339 



The abdomen is less flat on the upperside and more pointed be- 

 hind ; and instead of being polished above like that of S. politiventris, 

 it is clothed with dull yellowish-brown hairs and a transverse band of 

 scaly white ones on the fore margin ; the underside is yellow-white, 

 which unites gradually with the colour of the upperside by small, 

 short, brown streaks. 



A single adult male was found on the plains of the Jordan. 



Salticus ^ratus, sp. nov. 



Female adult, length 2 lines. 



This Spider has the cephalothorax of ordinary form ; the ocular 

 area is quite flat, and there is a strong indentation behind each of the 

 eyes of the third row ; the hind slope is also very abrupt ; its colour 

 is deep brown, tinged with reddish, the ocular area being black, and 

 the whole thinly clothed with a fine whitish pubescence and a few 

 fine erect hairs ; each of the eyes of the second row is the same dis- 

 tance from the fore lateral as it is from the hind lateral on its side, 

 but is a little within their straight line. 



The legs are moderate in length and strength, their relative length 

 being 4, 1, 3, 2 ; they are yellow in colour, clouded, marked, and 

 striped irregularly with blackish brown ; they are furnished with 

 hairs and spines, and each tarsus ends with a small claw-tuft. 



The palpi are yellow, the humeral joint clouded with black-brown, 

 and there is a conspicuous black spot at the base on the foreside of 

 each of the radial and digital joints. 



The abdomen is oval, and projects greatly over the base of the 

 cephalothorax ; its colour is black, thinly clothed with hairs, some of 

 which (especially in front and on the sides) are whitish, and others 

 give it a brassy appearance in different lights ; the underside 

 is dull yellowish, with a large central, somewhat quadrangular brown 

 marking. 



An example of this species was found among dwarf herbage on the 

 plain of the Jordan. 



Salticus spiniger, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2| to 2| lines. 



The cephalothorax is rather elongate and flattened ; the ocular 

 area does not occupy much more than one third of its entire length ; 

 and the hind slope is gradual ; it is of a bright reddish yellow-brown 

 colour, margined with black, and the ocular area is strongly clouded 

 with the same ; the whole (especially the ocular area) is clothed 

 with golden, grey, and other pubescent hairs, mixed together, and 

 giving it a variegated appearance ; a few prominent black hairs, 

 curved forwards, are also scattered over its surface ; on the sides of 

 the caput, close beneath the lateral eyes, is a longitudinal series of 

 small blackish tubercles, each surmounted by a short bristle. Each 

 of the eyes of the second row is rather nearer to the hind lateral than 

 to the fore lateral on its side, and is within their straight line. 



The legs of the first pair are considerably the longest, and the 

 femora, tibiae, and genua are inordinately strong, compared with the 



