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the fore lateral on its side, but is in the same straight line with 

 them. 



The legs are moderately long and strong ; their relative length is 

 1, 4, 2, 3 ; and they are furnished with hairs, bristles, and slender 

 spines ; they are of a dull yellow colour, striped, clouded, and blotched 

 with deep brown ; and each tarsus has a terminal claw-tuft. The 

 palpi are short, strong, and similar in colour to the legs ; they are 

 also furnished thinly with mixed long white, black, and yellowish-red 

 hairs : the cubital and radial joints are of equal length ; the latter 

 has its outer extremity produced into a long, tapering, nearly straight 

 apophysis, of a deep shining brown colour towards its extremity, 

 which terminates in a bluntish point or kind of small button-like 

 enlargement ; this apophysis is nearly, if not quite, double the length 

 of the joint itself: the digital joint is long and narrow-oval in form, 

 having the appearance of being constricted transversely near the 

 middle. The palpal organs consist of a not very large, but prominent 

 and nearly circular, corneous lobe, situated near the hinder part of 

 the joint to which it is attached. The falces are rather long and 

 strong ; they are straight but project slightly forwards, and are of a 

 deep rich shining brown colour. The maxillae and labium are of 

 ordinary form and deep brown in colour, with pale whitish extremities. 



The abdomen is of moderate size, oval form, and rather pointed 

 behind ; it is of a dull black colour, with one or two minute markings 

 formed by small patches of short white hairs : perhaps the abdomen 

 had become partially denuded of hairs, as, except the above-mentioned 

 patches, it was almost entirely bare ; the underside is of a dull 

 and pale yellowish colour, with a broad central longitudinal brown 

 band. 



A single example was found among stones and herbage at Jeru- 

 salem. 



Salticus flavescens, sp. nov. 



Female adult, length 4 lines. 



This Spider is of ordinary form and structure. The cephalothorax 

 has the caput of a black-brown colour, and the thoracic portion dark 

 yellow-brown ; the whole is thickly clothed with short yellowish 

 adpressed hairs or coarse pubescence, and on the clypeus are some 

 long fine yellowish- white prominent hairs ; on either side, just beneath 

 each eye of the second row, is a curved horn-like tuft composed of a 

 few longer and stronger yellow bristly hairs. The eyes are in the 

 ordinary position ; and the quadrangular figure they form is broader 

 than long ; those of the front row (when looked at from above) 

 form a curve whose convexity is directed forwards ; each eye of the 

 second row is, on either side, nearer to the hind lateral than to the 

 fore lateral on its side, and is rather within the straight line formed 

 by them ; the eyes of the hinder row are rather nearer together than 

 are the laterals of the front row. 



The palpi are yellow, furnished with long whitish hairs. The legs 

 are moderately strong, but rather short ; their relative length is 4, 3, 



