18/6.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. 025 



Gen. Salticus, Sim. (Latr. ad part.). 



Salticus todillus. 



Salticus todillus, Sim. Monogr. Att. d' Europe, Aim. Soe. Ent. 

 Fr. 4 C ser. 1868, torn. viii. p. 713, pi. iii. fig. 15 ; Cambr. Spid. 

 Palest, and Syria, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 324, pi. xiv, fig. 19. 



Examples of this very distinct and pretty little Salticus wire 

 found under stones near Alexandria. 



Salticus repudiatus, sp. n. 



Adult female, length 2 lines. 



This Spider is nearly allied to, but quite distinct from S. todillus, 

 Sim. 



The cephalothorax is of a flattened oblong form, the fore extremity 

 almost squarely truncated, and the hinder slope slight, and somewhat 

 rounded in profile ; it is of an orange-yellow brown colour, with two 

 broad longitudinal dark brown bands running from the hinder 

 extremity, through the posterior eyes, to the fore part of the ocular 

 area, in the dark blackish-brown colouring of which they merge. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position ; the ocular area is longer 

 than broad, and its fore part is very projecting; the eyes of the 

 intermediate row are much nearer to the anterior than to the posterior 

 row, and are placed within the straight line of the lateral eyes of 

 those two rows. 



The legs are moderately long, their relative length being 4, 1, 3, 2 ; 

 those of the three posterior pairs are slender, and, except the 

 metatarsi of the second pair, furnished with hairs only ; the femora, 

 genua, and tibiae of the first pair are very much stronger than those 

 of any of the rest, of a yellow-brown colour, the tibial joints 

 much darker, and, with the metatarsi, armed beneath with two 

 longitudinal parallel rows of four strong spines in each row ; the 

 legs of the second pair are yellow, the tibise marked on each side 

 forwards with brown ; those of the third and fourth pairs are 

 yellow ; all the tarsi have a small dark scopula beneath the 

 terminal claws. 



The palpi are moderately long, slender, and of a yellow colour. 



The fulces are small, vertical, yellow-brown, and placed tar back 

 beneath the fore part of the cephalothorax. 



The maxilla and labium are yellow-brown, the sternum yellow, 

 and of a narrow oval form. 



The abdomen is of an elongate oval form, constricted towards 

 the fore part, and joined to the cephalothorax by a short but distinct 

 pedicle ; its colour is yellow-brown, paler in the region of the 

 constriction aud on the sides of the fore extremity ; a small oblong 

 patch at the fore extremity, as well as most of the hinder half, are 

 shining and of a somewhat corneous appearance, the hinder extremity 

 also deepening considerably in colour ; the underside is much 

 paler, with two faint longitudinal, parallel, dusky-brown bands. 



A single example of the adult female was found under a stone 

 near Alexandria. 



