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white hairs, one on either side, including and running backwards 

 from the lateral eyes of all three rows ; there is also a white spot on 

 the centre of the caput. The clypeus and sides of the cephalothorax 

 are yellowish; and the former is furnished with long fine whitish hairs. 

 The cephalothorax and also the fore part of the upperside of the 

 abdomen are furnished with long, erect, black hairs. 



The abdomen, like the cephalothorax, is pretty thickly clothed 

 with hairs, mostly of a yellowish and grey colour ; on its upperside 

 are four longitudinal, and more or less perfect, narrow white stripes, 

 in some examples these stripes are formed by a series of more or less 

 confluent dashes or elongate spots ; two of these stripes occupy the 

 central portion of the abdominal surface, converge a little as they run 

 backwards, and are nearer together than each is to the lateral stripe 

 on its side. The space between the two central stripes is in most 

 examples darker-coloured than the rest ; the lateral stripes are 

 generally bolder though less regular and continuous; the whiteness 

 of the stripes arises from the white hairs with which the yellowish 

 integument beneath is clothed. The underside of the abdomen is 

 yellowish grey, with abroad central longitudinal band of black-brown, 

 near which, on either side, is a more or less distinct longitudinal line 

 of the same colour. The ocular area is much wider than it is long, 

 and the eyes of the second row very nearly equally divide the spaces 

 between the laterals (on either side) of the first and third rows, being 

 a very little nearer to the third than to the first. 



The legs and palpi are thinly furnished with grey, yellowish brown, 

 and black hairs of various lengths, and the former also with longish 

 spines. The legs are yellow, marked and banded with dark blackish 

 red-brown ; and each tarsus has a strong claw-tuft at its extremity. 



Examples of this species were found in large, regularly woven, and 

 compact silken domiciles, found among the shoots of a dense prickly 

 dwarf shrub growing on the plains of the Jordan near the Dead Sea, 

 and also on the wilds about Nazareth. The male was not discovered. 

 It was no easy matter to capture the females, as, on being disturbed, 

 they escaped quickly from an opening in the silken nest, dropping 

 to the ground among the prickly and impenetrable mazes of the shrub 

 in which the nest was woven. 



Menemerus (Sim.). 

 Salticus indistinctus, sp. nov. 



Male adult, length 2| lines. 



The cephalothorax is of ordinary form, but large and high, and its 

 hind slope steep ; it is of a deep rich shining brown colour, the caput 

 being nearly black. The clypeus and sides are more or less furnished 

 with fine white hairs, those beneath the two large foremost eyes 

 being long and prominent. When looked at from above and behind, 

 the front row of eyes describes a strong curve, the curve directed 

 forwards ; the two eyes of the hinder row are very slightly wider apart 

 than the laterals of the front row are from each other ; and each of 

 the eyes of the second row is further from the hind lateral than from 



