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rest ; these legs are of a reddish yellow-brown colour, the others 

 being pale yellowish, tinged with brown ; their relative length is 

 1, 4, 3, 2 ; and all are thinly furnished with hairs, many of which 

 (especially those on the first pair) are long, fine, and prominent ; the 

 metatarsi of the first pair have four (2, 2) short black spines beneath 

 them, and there is another single pair close together, near the extre- 

 mity, beneath the tibiae of the same legs. Each tarsus ends with a 

 small claw-tuft. 



The palpi are short, similar in colour to the legs of the first pair, 

 moderately strong, but of remarkable structure in the radial and 

 digital joints ; the cubital and radial joints are both very short ; the 

 latter is the shortest, and has a long cylindrical, nearly vertical apo- 

 physis issuing from the underside ; this apophysis is quite (if not 

 more than) double the length of the joint itself, and terminates rather 

 abruptly in a dark red-brown sharp point ; the digital joint is large 

 and long, rather abruptly narrowed forwards, where it is bent down- 

 wards ; its extremity is truncated ; and its convex side is directed 

 outwards ; and consequently the palpal organs of each palpus are di- 

 rected inwards towards each other ; they are highly developed and 

 prominent, consisting of a large, somewhat pyriform, corneous lobe 

 (the large end behind), with a small prominence near the middle ; a 

 long, strong, black spine issues from the fore extremity of this lobe, 

 on the outer side, and sweeps round backwards with a large bold 

 curve, coiling round on the inner side of the palpal organs, and having 

 its acute filiform point in contact with their extremity, close to its 

 origin ; the coil of this spine extends quite to the hinder extremity 

 of the radial joint, and is a very conspicuous character of the species. 

 The falces are tolerably long but slender, and rather directed for- 

 wards. 



The abdomen is rather large, of an oval form, slightly flattened ; it 

 is of a yellow-brown colour above, clothed with short white hairs in 

 front and on the sides ; there are some whitish-yellow markings for- 

 wards, an obscure series of broken chevrons behind in the central 

 longitudinal line, aud some broken, irregular, oblique stripes on the 

 sides ; the underside is whitish. 



The female resembles the male in colour and markings, which, 

 however, are more distinct than in the latter sex. The relative length 

 of the legs appears to differ in the two sexes, those of the fourth 

 pair being the longest in the female, while those of the first are 

 the longest in the male. 



Immature examples of both sexes were found on trunks of olive 

 trees at Hebron and Jerusalem ; and in 1 864 adults of both were 

 met with on the trunks of palm trees in Egypt. It is from some of 

 the Egyptian examples that the above description has been made ; 

 but there is no doubt whatever of the specific identity of the Egyp- 

 tian and Palestine examples. 



Saltictjs fulgens, sp. nov. (Plate XIV. fig. 17.) 



Male adult, length 1| to 1J line. 



The cephalothorax of this beautiful and brilliant little Spider is of 



