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Cephalotliorax moderately high, elongated, a little widest 

 at dorsal eyes. Thoracic part sloping from dorsal eyes, curv- 

 ing upward a little from the lowest point to the posterior mar- 

 gin ; cephalic part occupying three-fifths of the whole length, 

 somewhat convex, limited bj^ a depression. Quadrangle of 

 ej'^es very slightly wider than long, and much wider behind 

 than in front. Anterior eyes in a straight row, touching ; 

 middle twice as large as lateral. Clypeus one-third as high as 

 middle eyes. Second row much nearer the first than the third 

 row. Third row as wide as cephalothorax at that place. Falces 

 robust, rather long, vertical. Lip twice as long as wide. 

 Coxce I separated by mdth of lip. Sternum long, projecting 

 between anterior coxse, truncated in front, rounded behind. 

 Pedicle rather long. Abdomen with a deep constriction in 

 front of middle. 



Color. Cephalothorax glabrous, yellowash-red behind, 

 blackish in eye-region, with black spots at the dorsal eyes, and 

 a few white hairs. The constriction, which divides the abdo- 

 men into an anterior and a posterior region, is marked by a 

 pure white line ; in front of this the color is brownish ; behind 

 it, glistening black. Sternum and venter, black. Coxse of 

 the first, second and fourth pairs,' pale ; of third pair, black. 

 First and second pairs of legs pale, with metatarsal and tarsal 

 joints black, and having a longitudinal black line running 

 along the anterior face of the patella and tibia, and the upper 

 face of the femur ; third pair, brownish ; fourth pair, black, 

 with a testaceous ring at the base of the patella. Palpus 

 brownish. 



Habitat. Europe. 



LEPTORCHESTES MUTILLOIDES LUC. 1842. 



Salticus mutilloides E. S. 1869. 

 Leptorchestes mutilloides E. S. 1871. 

 Leptorchestes mutilloides E. S. 1876. 

 9 . Total length, 6 mm. 



Cephalothorax : Length, 2.5 mm.; width, 1.5 mm. 



Legs, 4132; femur i enlarged, otherwise equally 

 stout. 



